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Home Fitness Helps Kids Stay Healthy

I never have to remind my kids to move or to be active at home. That might be because we don’t have a t.v. or simply because they are young. Children are naturally fidgety and fit. It’s so tempting to holler at rambunctious rugrats to “Sit Still!” But here in America, where we are known for our fatness, should we really do that?

Tracy’s little man understands home fitness and handstands already. However, children have the same risk factors for obesity as adults. According to Pediatrics, the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, The Bogalusa Heart Study which did seven cross-sectional studies of 9,167 kids ages 5 to 17 between 1973 and 1994, showed that a child with high fasting insulin (too much sugar in their diet) was 12.4 times more likely to be obese later in life! Kids with high systolic blood pressure (bottom number of pressure reading) had 4.5 times higher risk of obesity, those with high triglycerides were over 7 times more likely be overweight as adults!

Movement is still a delight to little Cameron Lee (above) who is unknowingly doing a perfect Plank Pose, and while exercise has been shown to lower risk factors like heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure, what you feed them is still very important. Nutrition and exercise aren’t do-or-die for them yet. For them, fruit and fitness are just pure fun. As parents and guardians, let’s work super hard to keep it that way, so that home health and fitness aren’t a fight for them later in life.

Beth Learn

As the main instructor, founder and CEO of Fit2B Studio, Beth has worked tirelessly since 2010 to integrate diastasis recti rehabilitation into mainstream fitness styles. She has traveled the world as a speaker and educator, and she has fostered world-wide collaborations for her Fit2b Radio podcast and online fitness courses including Experts In Diastasis Recti, 14 Days to A Better Neck, Get your Glutes In Gear, Comforting The Core, and many others on Fit2B. Beth has been immersed in the fitness industry since she began working in athletic clubs in 1995. She became a certified group fitness instructor in 1997 and received her Bachelor of Science in Exercise & Sport Science from Oregon State University in 2001. She has trained and certified in a wide variety of fitness specialities since then including: Yoga, Pilates, hypropressives, aerobics, spinning, weightlifting, prenatal/postpartum fitness, and restorative exercise. Beth is happiest when she's helping people understand their bodies, overcome their fear of fitness, and learn how to move in freedom and simplicity. She enjoys teaching locally, consulting online, and her hobbies include reading historical fiction, race walking, snowshoeing, hiking, and growing blueberries and goats on her small farm with her husband and two children. Read more about Beth and see her full curriculum vitae on our "About The Instructor" page.

4 thoughts on “Home Fitness Helps Kids Stay Healthy”

  1. CP says:

    Love the baby downward dog (or plank?)
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