Family Fitness Expert Urges Families To Use The End Of Summer For School Year Success
Family fitness helps kids perform better in school, builds strong bodies and stronger family bonds. Summer's end is a critical time to solidify family fitness as part of a family routine.
Online, August 18, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Today, Fit Family Together www.fitfamilytogether released key advice for how families can make the best of the end of summer. Fitness, and in particular family fitness, is critical for helping children perform at their best. With school just a week or two away, now is the time to make family fitness a solid part of family life. Today Fit Family Together gives families several ways to use these last few days to do so.
"Family fitness isn't just about staying trim. It's so much richer and deeper," emphasizes Fit Family Together founder, Sarah Clachar. "Hundreds of studies demonstrate the role good health and physical activity play in cognitive performance and behavior. But it goes beyond this. Family fitness is a way for families to grow stronger. It provides opportunities for parents to teach children how to take on challenges, push through failure, problem solve and take calculated risks. And in today's overly busy world, family fitness ensures families spend more time together."
Clachar notes that her family's commitment to getting active together as a family has helped her daughter face off with the peer pressures of high school. For her son, it's been a way to practice discipline and learn how to be a positive leader - not a distraction in the classroom.
"There is perhaps nothing better than spending time together being active as a family to help your children work through stress, build self-confidence and feel like you're there for them," notes Clachar. " However, while it's easier to do this in the summer, it gets a lot harder to exercise together once school starts when our children need it even more."
For this reason, Fit Family Together provides several tips for using the end of summer to ensure that family fitness becomes a regular part of family life:
§ Use the end of summer to experiment and learn what works so it's easier to jump on the bikes or head for a hike when schedules are tighter.
§ Plan a day-long or weekend adventure or two for summer's end to underscore good associations by making powerful memories.
§ Like shifting to school year bedtimes, use the end of summer to establish a routine and fit small doses of fitness into the day.
§ Use summer's end to savor the good experiences by leisurely reflecting and giggling over family fitness experiences.
§ Use the summer's end to challenge children and prepare them for the challenges of school by creating small doable goals and working up to bigger ones.
Finally, Clachar advises to use the end of summer to commit to making family fitness part of family life.
For more information about how to use the end of summer to make family fitness work or to learn more about family fitness, please visit http://fitfamilytogether.com/family-fitness-planning-for-the-end-of-summer
About Sarah Clachar And Fit Family Together
Since expecting their first child, Sarah and her husband Cassius have made fitness a core part of their family life. From biking to hiking . . . from the heart of New York City to a farm in New England, they have found a way to stay active together. And through all this exercising as a family they discovered that family fitness builds not only strong bodies - but stronger families.
A professional health writer with a BA in biology, gardener and foodie Sarah brings a wealth of expertise in nutrition and health. A personal trainer and inveterate tinkerer, Cassius brings innovation to making family fitness work.
For more information about how to make family fitness part of family life Take the Fit Family Together 7 Day Family Fitness Challenge and put a family fitness plan together.