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I have two teen sons, one is very active its a matter of reminding him to slow down the other on the other hand isn’t very motivated to move. Kinda breaks my heart I remember when I was a teen I was never home always doing some kind of sport or dance now days with so much going on I have found that teens just don’t have that drive….
Not too many years ago you could expect children and teens to get exercise during gym class at school as well as spending time outdoors playing or riding bicycles. However, with the popularity of televisions, computers, and gaming systems, children and teens are spending less time in physical activity and more time being sedentary. Your goal is to keep your teenager fitness motivated as they grow.
Everyone knows the importance of maintaining a healthy body, but that doesn’t mean that they do what’s best in order to stay healthy. Quite often this means they’ll sit around instead of being active. They may also eat too much or the wrong foods which leads them to gain an unhealthy amount of weight.
To combat extra weight, it’s important for teens to be active every day. Not only will they be healthier, they’ll also have more energy and feel better about themself. Taking the time to get and stay healthy while they’re young will also help teens prevent serious diseases in the future. Diabetes, heart disease, and arthritis are just a few of the diseases that may be avoided.
Most experts recommend that teens get a minimum of one hour of physical exercise, preferably each day of the week. Unfortunately, children tend to stop being active as they reach their teens. If they’ve played organized sports in the past, they may even drop out of them in favor of other non-physical activities.
Encourage them to try a new sport. Sports are more than baseball, basketball, soccer, and football. There is also gymnastics, skateboarding, swimming, tennis, dancing, or ice skating. Purchase some free weights and set them up at your home. You can take up working out with your teen as a way to help them stay fitness motivated.
Give your teen the opportunity to choose which sport they’ll be involved in or what they’ll do to stay physically active. What they choose to do to keep themselves moving isn’t nearly important as the fact that they are moving and that they do it regularly.
Being physically active can increase your teen’s self-esteem, can reduce stress, and help them do better in school. There are so many benefits to being fitness motivated that it’s hard to imagine anyone preferring to be otherwise.
Find fun activities that you can enjoy with your teen. Perhaps you both need to start out slowly. You may be able to find a walking trail the two of you can go to. Re-learn to roller skate or learn how to in-line skate. Whatever you and your teen choose, you may want to be sure that the activity is something you’ll continue doing and that will fit into your schedule.
If you’re concerned about how inactive your teen is these days, you probably recognize the importance of keeping your teen fitness motivated. Give them options, join in the fun, and watch how they’ll soon stop their sedentary ways.
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Most of the teenagers right now really prefers to play with their techie gadgets. Laptop, Ipod/Iphone, gaming consoles and cellphones rather than doing physical activities. I must agree with you they definitely needs activities to keep there body active. Great Article!
good analysis…
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This is such an important topic. I am happy to see that video gaming has made some changes as well. Even though it is still indoors and they are still staring at the screen, at least they need to be up and off the couch!
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I think the best way to keep teens active is to be active with them. This shows them you are just as committed to good health as you want them to be and you get to spend time with your children.
It’s good to bring teens out for some leisure activities.This will burn the calories institute in them that causes weariness and might result in low self esteem.
When I was a teenager, I don’t think I got any of this kind of education from my parents. I’m happy I got to know what I should be saying to my kids
When I was a kid I was very active we played a lot outside in a different games, about 8 hours a day .
We were so friendly and still remember our active childhood.
I do agree teens need to know what’s the right food to eat and the importance of exercising. we parents are the one who should let them knows how important it is. or we should act as a role model, for them to see that we also doing it to stay healthy and it will benefits them i they grows. With this they will know how important it is in our daily life.
being active is great. aside from making one healthy, you can enjoy your day when you start with a healthy exercise. exercise can be the best bonding for the parents and kids.
No one likes being fat and it is very bad for the self-esteem. People also treat fat people different than an in-shape person.
Being in-shape will help your career and love life more than you would ever expect.
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I’m 54 and teens are a lot different these days when it comes to physical activities because of all the automation that we didn’t have when we were kids so it’s harder for them to get out there and play because most of their peers don’t. Most of the older generation didn’t have anything else to do but go out and play. I lived 1/2 block away from a playground when I was younger and was over there playing some sport 7 days a week. Some great comments about doing the activity with them would get them exercising more.
You are right on: sports are important.
In particularly sports that require a buddy or a team. That way they have obligations to others to show up, and well, it makes it a bit easier to get the kids off the couch.
Mostly, I like being a role model however: show rather than tell.
Balance! that’s what I’m after.
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Really nice post and very great analysis and thanks for sharing it.
Great post. Thanks for the information
I am a teenager myself and I train handball. It is a good way to keep fit and get the exercise I need. I recommend it to everyone. Play sports and you are cool.
Great tips! Thank you!
Awesome tips.I work at a drug rehab and so many of the young adults wish their parents would not have let them quit sports. They say once they had more time on their hands and started experimenting with drugs which is why they are here today trying to get off tehm.
Luckily our teen is pretty active. Mom & I are both avid cyclists (have been since BC; before children) so I think this may have just rubbed off on our son. Now he still loves the TV & junk food, but at least he gets out for some exercise.
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