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Children and exercise-Blog post

The key to exercise at a younger age is making it fun and should be more about active play rather than exercising.  Children love to emulate their parents so this is why I have focused on your exercise this past month, it always starts with you!  So focus on getting them out and about and moving.  

 Exercise improves blood flow to the organs, especially the brain and help your body to make it’s own internal medicine to help heal it from inflammation.  When you exercise, your blood flows faster through the vessels which allows the vessels to secrete Nitric Oxide so that the vessels can dialate.  When this happens more blood can flow through the vessels and brings more nutrients to the body and organs and is the safest way for us to lower our cholesterol

 Monkey bars are a wonderful form of exercise as hanging and moving through motion while hanging is great for their shoulder mobility.  Honestly, I would recommend everyone spend some time hanging as you may notice less tension in the upper back and shoulders when you start to do so.  

As children get older you can start to allow them to do more bodyweight specific exercises like squats and pushups but hold off on the weight training until they are in puberty when they are producing enough testosterone to drive progress and allow for proper recovery.  Yes it’s ok for them to have fun and do a few bicep curls here and there, but it’s more important to allow their body to move through different modalities so that they don’t suffer from overuse injuries.

If your child is playing in a specific sport, make sure that you have them do other sports as well for fun; even if its in their own yard so that they are working their muscles differently.

Ideas for moving more as a family:  

Go for daily walks

Play hide and seek

Fun challenges-ninja warriors, floor is lava, 

 Actionable step is practice time moving = time sitting

Let us know how you and your children find ways to move at Form Fit Mom Community on Facebook. 

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