Bodybuilding Begins With Your Family Being Fit

Even with the spotlight placed squarely on the benefits of bodybuilding exercises the media exposes, to the detrimental hazards of lack of an physical fitness and the all too clear increase in obesity and overweight cases, people have not fully embraced bodybuilding exercising as a routine. Physical fitness is not a priority activity especially among the youths today. Majority of children and teenagers spend their days sit on a desk at school, playing computer games at home, enjoying video games with friends and watching TV and movies the rest of the time. Their lives are so dormant and so indoor that it is not a wonder that 80% percent of them are overweight.

This is further compounded by the modern fast food lifestyles. The consequences are obese children with diabetes and other complex health conditions. Children need aerobic exercises to build flexible movement, challenge the heart rate, stretch muscles and burn the junk in their systems. Ideally, children and adolescents require 60 minutes at the very least in physical activities daily.

Exercises keep children fit, a step a time for wholesome bodybuilding, loses unnecessary weight, builds strong bones, develops the muscle system, lowers blood pressure and amplifies circulation. Active children sleep soundly at night and are more alert at school during the day. This goes a long way to improve a child's self-esteem. High self-esteem is crucial for a child because it builds them up to strong-willed and stable young adults, eventually. Inactive children will therefore end up being depression cases as a result of low self esteem and anxiety.

It can however prove to be a challenge getting a modern inactive child to forego indoor passive games and interested in active exercises. But the trick is to find a particular activity that the child enjoys and which feels cool to him and his friends. Find something that they would consider popular and trend setting. Modern youth are fascinated to the extreme by hip hop music and its associated culture to eh extent that they exclusively watch hip hop music videos, glued to their iPods and dressed like they see their idols do on TV. Consequently, hip hop dance is very popular and can be the perfect route to get your child to incorporate exercising with their interests. Dances develop physical fitness, creativity of a child and psychological balance. Within an hour of dancing a child can burn over 400 calories and even more.

Also it is advisable to facilitate your children to have private lessons in various popular games like tennis, golf, skating or swimming. Private training has numerous benefits especially for beginners because it offers the child freedom to learn at a comfortable fitness speeds. Group learning is often times too fast or even slow for the personalized, specifically tailored pace of individual children. Personalized guidance guarantees the constant assurance and patience, crucial in motivating children to achieve preset fitness goals.

Ensure that bodybuilding exercises are conveniently scheduled at optimal times as a daily routine and that the children remain inspired and thus making workouts to be a passion in a safe environment. This will make them fit, emotionally balanced and highly self confident, bringing out the real qualities resident in your child.

Dane Fletcher

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