Family Fitness
These days it is difficult enough to find time for personal fitness so the thought of exercising as a family seems impossible. Everybody follows such tight schedules that it becomes extremely difficult to find a time for the entire family to meet together…let alone exercise together. But it is not impossible and here is how you can make it work.
1. Identify the time required for other essential activities. Use a calendar to keep track of all priorities like school, office, and other fixed and firm activities. These cannot be changed except for holidays or if something unexpected comes up. Check out the times left–like a free evening during the week or a morning. Ask each family member if any of those times suit them.
2. Come up with fitness activities that the whole family enjoys. Some possibilities are hiking, jogging, swimming, volleyball or any other activity that lends itself to activity and interaction. Not only do you stay fit, you also bond as a family by sharing the experience. Make a list of several options. Ask everyone to vote on them, so activities are selected which most members in the family enjoy doing. Make sure that everyone gets to do an activity they like by alternating the time spent on various fitness activities over time.
3. Accommodate the pace of activity to include everyone~s needs or limitations. This may mean that the some will have to keep a slower pace than they otherwise would to allow the very young and the elderly keep up. You may have to complete an activity in phases, swimming for example, by having young children rest at prescribed intervals while older children and adults have swim time more in line with their abilities. Make each fitness session fun and challenging, but not overwhelming, for each member of the family.
4. Do not be too strict about family fitness time. Do not turn it into a competition where losing makes one feel disheartened. Keep it flexible and rearrange schedules when required to make family fitness time convenient for everyone. If someone cannot make it on a particular day, the rest of the family can go ahead with the exercise. This way family fitness time remains casual and fun.
Being physically active as a family is a great way to keep fit and healthy as a family as well as a way to spend time and have fun together. It will not only make each one of you healthier but also help you cultivate a life-long habit and activity routine that will be passed through the generations of your family. If you have not tried enjoying physical fitness as a family, do so now!
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