Children`s Exercise Program
Updated: January 7, 2009
Getting your child motivated to exercise can be a challenge. Human Kinetics has released a book called "Active Start for Healthy Kids." The book emphasizes participation and fun, not performance.
Listed below are tips on how to design a workout program for you child.
Keys to exercise program design:
1. Base exercises on a child`s developmental needs.
2. Structure exercise in short segments.
3. Provide a wide variety of exercise.
4. Emphasize participation and fun, not performance.
Components of health-related physical fitness:
Muscular fitness
Cardiorespiratory endurance
Flexibility
Body composition
Kids should participate in at least two components of health-related physical fitness everyday.
