Youth Fitness

Driving home from the gym I noticed a young student employee of our town who is hired every summer for local landscaping and mowing the grass around town.

I worked at this job as well one summer when I was a young student. It was a fun summer working with some of my closest friends and we got to work outdoors every day in the summer sun. We also got lots of exercise doing hours of manual labor pushing lawn mowers and landscaping

But I noticed this young kid wasn't pushing his lawn mower across the big grass field entering the town like we had to do. He was sitting on one of the sit-down mowers with his ipod on mowing away!

Another sign of our ever increasing changes contributing to youth obesity.

According to the Wall Street Journal the youth fitness market has grown into a four billion dollar industry and is poised to become the highest grossing segment of the entire wellness industry over the next 5 - 10 years.



This video got me thinking about the future of fitness. With the soaring obesity rates in todays youth, I am still trying to be optimistic.

This kid surely never got to do what you will see on this video by lying around the house playing video games and eating potato chips. I am sure he put in many hours of consistent training with just his bodyweight to perform as he do while still only in high school!

Kids just need to be active and move, play sports, jump, run and play. All these things will improve strength, balance, coordination and contribute to life long health.

If your a busy dad get the Dad Fitness Workouts and get your kids to join you or at least get them to mow the lawn.



Sean Barker, CPT

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