School Fitness Programs Don't Work

Not that this should be any surprise considering the number of kids I see daily that have just a eye popping waistline, at least it's coming out that how we're currently training kids in "gym" class isn't working anymore.

From the article:

Hahn, co-founder of the National Council for Exercise Standards, wants to equip school gyms with exercise machines and dumbbells. He said strength-or resistance-training combined with a low-carbohydrate diet is the most effective way to battle childhood flab.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Workouts for kids don't really need to be any different than how it is with adults (meaning, there needs to be a progression from basic exercises to slowly more intermediate and advance exercises). We can use resistance training with them, as well as interval training (although I don't think schools need to invest in expensive equipment to accomplish this, kids can do just fine for a very long time using bodyweight exercises (then again, so can adults))..

Although sure, low-carb diets would probably be fine for the youngsters, there may be an even simpler way: GET THE CRAP FOOD OUT OF THEIR HANDS. I don't care how much pasta the kid eats, if you just take away the cookies, candy, ice cream, regular soda and anything else that is filled with added sugar, you'd see a huge reduction in overweight kids (the other thing you can do is pull them away from time to time from that video console and kick 'em outside to run around a little bit).

I think childhood obesity is going to get worse before it gets better. Things need to change at home, but they also need to change in schools in order to provide the right prescription of physical exertion in order to keep these children's waistlines from growing. Stay tuned to this blog as this is something I get more and more passionate about by the day and I hope to have products and programs available to take this head on in the near future.

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