Written by Bob Bovee
Monday, 01 February 2010 00:00

Is your child getting enough daily exercise? If you're not sure, here are a few shocking facts that should make you consider tracking your child's daily activities. Fact #1 - 64% of children have at least one risk factor for heart disease!!

Fact #2 - 70% of girls and 40% of boys ages 6 - 12 can not perform just 1 pull-up!!

Fact #3 *- 30% - 60 % of elementary school children are obese!!

Fact #4 - 40% - 50% of our youth do not get adequate exercise to build cardiovascular

endurance!!

Fact #5 - According to the Amateur Athletics Union (AAU) Youth Fitness Study, there have been declines in satisfactory performances in strength, flexibility and endurance of the prepubescent population.

One of the main reasons for this poor performance is definitely related to the reduction or elimination (in most cases) of physical education programs in the public schools. In grades 5 - 12 only 36.3% of children get physical education on a daily basis.

The Harro East Athletic Club has several areas in the club that focuses on youth fitness. We feel the youth of today need to be taught a education on fitness and should be given an opportunity to experience a variety of activities that can contribute to their fitness level.

One of the ways we do this is through "Family Days". This is an activity we offer on the first Sunday of every month. Members can bring their children into the club to participate in the exciting activities of the day. We organize activities such as karate and fencing demonstrations, breakfast with Santa, open swimming, gym games, lessons in racquetball and squash and many more activities design with our youth in mind.

We also have a personal training service available - The Personal Health Approach (TPHA) - that specializes in youth fitness. They not only specialize in youth fitness, they also can teach your child an education about exercising and how to lead a healthy life. Your child can learn how important being healthy is which will carry on into their lifestyle.

With the increased awareness of the importance of a healthy lifestyle, we encourage you to monitor your child's daily activities. In most cases, this will fall short of the level of activity needed to ensure that your child is healthy and will be able continue their health into the adult years.

If this study was performed in my area the numbers would be higher.

I highly doubt 30% of girls ages 6-12 can do a pull-up.

Thanks for this information.i observed that everyone just looking for youth fiteness but we don't think about elderly fitness and exercise but its really important and we should work on it.

Thanks

Joseph Rettig

Intarastin' new mff's we gettin' lately... Lol

Sent from my Evo.

Originally Posted by josephrettig2012

Thanks for this information.i observed that everyone just looking for youth fiteness but we don't think about elderly fitness and exercise but its really important and we should work on it.

Thanks

Joseph Rettig

fuck I wish I knew more about elderly fitness

Originally Posted by josephrettig2012

Thanks for this information.i observed that everyone just looking for youth fiteness but we don't think about elderly fitness and exercise but its really important and we should work on it.

Thanks

Joseph Rettig

I will have to look into fiteness for youth and find why elderly cannot involve the body !

Elderly cake fitness for bodily. Do yoga.

Regards

How do all these bot/troll accounts get through??

Originally Posted by StimBrah

How do all these bot/troll accounts get through??

Ironic post is ironic.


Just saw this thread. Reminds me of that kid, Todd Marinovich. Bred to be a football player, had a strict young life, his old man was one of the first NFL strength coaches so Todd was only fed healthy shit; never any sweets, nothing. Ended up setting national records in HS and decent college career. Was a scrub nfl player, now a big drug user being arrested multiple times for possesion.

Originally Posted by Beejis60

Just saw this thread. Reminds me of that kid, Todd Marinovich. Bred to be a football player, had a strict young life, his old man was one of the first NFL strength coaches so Todd was only fed healthy shit; never any sweets, nothing. Ended up setting national records in HS and decent college career. Was a scrub nfl player, now a big drug user being arrested multiple times for possesion.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to GregW again.

The man in black.

What an influence he had on music. yet, so few 30y/o and younger do not know much about the man.

ehhhh, I really doubt that since that one JC movie came out.

Originally Posted by josephrettig2012

we don't think about elderly fitness and exercise but its really important and we should work on it.

It's really different in different countries. Here in Korea, it's popular for the elderly to hike up mountains every morning before dawn. Some do yoga at the top if they're Buddhist. There are a couple old men at the gym and they're kinda jacked...and I don't mean "jacked for their age" but jacked in general.

In Cambodia, many of the elderly that do farm work are ripped as all fuck.

In other words, elderly fitness seems to be the same as every other age's fitness: you just gotta fuckin' do it. We make a lot of excuses for our elderly and I don't think that we should. Yes, the body does change as it ages, but that doesn't mean that it's impossible to stay healthy and active. This is especially true if a person has been healthy and active all his/her life (cough Jack Lalanne cough).