Friday, December 30, 2011

Keep Active Your Family and Kids (4 Simple Ideas)

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Well, it is undeniable by keeping active your kids will be helpful to promote good health for their body, especially for their heart. There are a lot of options to make your kids active so thus any heart disease or other health problems can be eliminated.

Read also another helpful articles about ideas to keep fit in the winter! The following are 4 simple ideas and tips to keep active your kids and your family.

Make your housework more fun!

One of welcome ideas is by creating a nice game in order to make all family members to do their separate chores more fun. The game is not only useful to encourage fun atmosphere but also helpful for all family members to finish their task more easily.

Play your favorite music when you are doing laundry, and at the same time ask to your kids to dance and sing together while they are helping to put or fold clothes away. Furthermore, making your housework more fun will be also useful to reduce stress.

Consider to choose the right classes together

If you want something more professional, you and your kids can take a class together (like aerobic or yoga classes). Find the right one of fitness clubs in your local area, and find information about a nice program of aerobic or yoga classes that offered to ‘kids and parents together’.

You can also consider participating into a helpful yoga program that will be helpful to burn your calories with your baby (if you are pregnant). This option is also welcome if you have too young kids.

If you don’t have kids, why you don’t try to also invite your pet (dog), you can choose ‘yoga for you & your pet (dog) program’.

Motivate your family to keep active from your family room!

As well we know that there are some rooms of your house that can offer comfort zone of laziness, like a family room with a complete video-game console, DVDs, and a comfy sectional sofa which will make your family spend a lot of time in there and eventually can lead to nothing to encourage physical activity.

Therefore, it is not too bad idea to organize well the weekend day of your family. You can try with subtle reminders and determine a time limit on weekly TV viewing, or even you can redecorate the room if necessary.

Moreover, there are also some video games that not only encourage fun atmosphere but also helpful to move more your body, such as Wii Fit for Nintendo Wii.

The right outdoor activities

In fact, outdoor activities will be more challenge to make your body move more! Therefore, it is not too bad idea to plan aside one day (weekend day) for an outdoor activity, such as; hiking or sledding in the winter, biking with your family in the autumn or spring, swimming with your family together in the summer.

Then after good workout, you and your family can take along a picnic lunch (don’t forget to involve only healthy snacks), so thus they can enjoy more their outdoor activities without a complaint.