Marcelo Vazquez is a
fitness professional, a childhood obesity prevention advocate, and the
creator of Spin-Fit™. Marcelo enjoys encouraging and motivating kids to
develop their own passion for sports and fitness and to develop healthy
lifestyles. Marcelo is a fitness contributor for Univision 34 Atlanta,
and he has also been featured on CNN, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and
Azteca America Atlanta TV.
Spin-Fit™ Story
While
working with kids I realized that the only way to motivate them to
exercise was to create something fun. One of the tools that I have used
in my “Mini Fitness” program for kids is a flying disc with exercises on
paper that I taped on the back of the disc. If the kids dropped the
flying disc, I assigned them an “exercise penalty”. Kids enjoyed it so
much that I decided to make it more challenging and mysterious by
putting more exercises on a spinning disc, and making the exercise
selection random. They loved it, and that was a GO! Then, I realized
that I should make it available for parents and teachers to increase
physical activities among their kids. That was a GO-GO! That is how
Spin-Fit™ was born.
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