Creative Ways to Exercise with the Family

If you find yourself with little time to exercise, try daily bouts of 10 minutes. You still get the healthy benefits of being active while having fun exercising. Parents, become a healthy mentor for your kids, find 10 minutes during the day and practice any of these strategies. Be creative and remember… Exercise is fun!

• Exercise during commercials: Use television commercial breaks to do a few squats, push ups or jumping jacks. 

• The mystery exercise-box: List exercises on individual papers with 5-10 repetitions each.  Place the papers in a box and select exercises to perform one at a time.

• Jumping rope with penalty: Start jumping rope and every time you stop perform a penalty like 5 push ups, 10 jumping jacks or 10 squats.

• How many you can do?: Challenge your kids and yourself to do push ups, squats, jumping jacks, and keep track of the record.

• Dance: Play your favorite songs and dance non-stop like nobody is watching.

• Sports video games: Use the passion kids have for video games and purchase games that require movement.

• After school: walk or jog around the block with your kids after school.

*Please consult your own and your child’s physician before starting this or any other fitness program*

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