Fitness Tips

  • Exercising with FitKids

    Encourage your children to participate in after-school programs that promote physical activity and a healthy lifestyle.

    Give children toys that encourage physical activity like balls, kites, and jump ropes.

  • Encourage children to join a sports team or try a new physical activity.
  • Limit TV time and keep the TV out of a child’s bedroom.
  • Facilitate a safe walk to and from school a few times a week.
  • Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
  • Walk around the block after a meal.
  • Make a new house rule: no sitting still during television commercials.
  • Find time to spend together doing a fun activity: family park day, swim day or bike day.
  • Let’s Move – Parents: http://www.letsmove.gov/parents

*Resource Let’s Move