Children’s Health and Fitness: Intro/Index
For parents with small children: what is their health and fitness like right now, and what is it going to be like going forward? Developments in measuring techniques seem to be telling us that our children now are less healthy than our parent’s children.
Fitness? Well that’s almost a no brainer. Everyone is less fit than the kids in our parent’s generation. Not so smug now, are we?
Yes, it’s true the life-span is longer because we’ve made humongous strides in medical treatment and inventions; but truly, our lifestyle is doing us in.
This curation of posts are those which try to explain why and what to do about it: Children’s Health and Fitness.
5 Posts in "Children's Fitness" Series
- Children's Health-N-Fitness: Intro/Index – 1 Jan 2012
By recently developed methods of measurement, children's health in the U.S. is poorer than it has been in former years. In addition, they are less fit. Some reasons are completely obvious to anyone whose lives have spanned more than 20 years or so, some are not. Posts in this series try to explain why. - Athletic Warmups for Children – 4 Jan 2012
Warm-ups do more than just prevent "stiff muscles," they actually decrease the risk of injuries and increase performance. - Children Jogging with Parents – 13 Sep 2013
An active mother wonders about the propriety of taking her children jogging with her. - Children's Health: Less Healthy Than 50 Years Ago – 13 Sep 2017
Your kids are taller, better fed and wealthier than your grandparents; so, why are today’s children LESS healthy than 50 years ago? Children’s health has actually gotten worse! - Children's Fitness: The Bleep Test – 17 Sep 2017
A previous article compared children’s health of today with those of 50 years ago and found our kids come up wanting. The fitness of your child can be easily improved by making a game out of “the BLEEP” test, a 20 meter (21.87 yards) running aerobic fitness test done in time to “BLEEPS”—or beeps—on a music player.
I’ve written several other posts over the years on similar topics. If you’d like to know a bit more perhaps you might like some health-related proverbs.