HEALTH & FITNESS with Les Mills
You, Our Children, Exercise and Health
Social media, facebook, gaming, mobile phones, you name it, they all have a lot to answer for in regards to our children’s overall activity levels. Yes sure we want our kids to be tech savvy, but at the expense of what? The escalation and onset of what used to be adult health issues are now appearing in our young. How can we change that? If we engage and I mean truly engage with our children, lead by example and take steps to change ourselves, you potentially become the inspired change – for you dads out there, this means doing more than just reading a bedtime story!
Over the last month we have run a trial programme – BOOTFIT. The goals being to have parents engage with their children through exercise, learn something about each other, have fun and establish an exercise habit. We had 2 x 45-60 minute sessions a week for 4 weeks, one outdoors the other in the gym doing a group fitness class. Some feedback that stuck was “there isn’t a whole lot a parent can do with their child, especially when they are young teenagers – we just don’t have anything in common”. Hey guess what? Exercise potentially bridges the gap.
This brings me to the “Participation” mentality, isn’t that what it is all about? - Hell No!
Participation is great but to just participate is to be average. It is about winning, life is about winning. You don’t just participate in life everything is a win whether on the sports field, the classroom, your relationship, your finances, you name it and it will be a win in some way, shape or form.
Do everything with intent, drive and focus. Visualise a healthier, fitter, leaner, happier more balanced stable you. Visualise what it feels like to be there before you even get there. Feel and embrace that feeling daily. Practise the law of attraction; when you truly embody this principle you will actually start living the life you have dreamed of. Be forever relentless in your pursuit of happiness and health.
So stir the inner child (active child) in you, we all have one don’t we? As parents we have so much influence over our children that it often goes unrealised, in a blink of an eye they are grown up. Let’s not contribute to a generation that have developed a poor relationship with exercise. Wake up from your slumber, lead by example and be the person you thought you were - it is an awesome place to be.
One big happy family
