Why should we exercise as a family?

What better way is there than to share quality time with your family, create an active healthy lifestyle together and have fun all at the same time? Family workout programs are different from the traditional exercise programs. You won’t see endless lists of push-ups, biceps curls, lunges and squats. Family workouts are interactive movements with your kids, combining active games, fitness challenges and movements that keep kids active and families healthy. 

It is a well known fact that people exercise more and at a higher intensity when they exercise with a friend or family member or when there is a challenge involved.

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How did we become so unhealthy?

The Associated Press’s Greg Keller reports, “Franco Sassi, the OECD senior health economist who authored the report, blamed the usual suspects for the increase. ‘Food is much cheaper than in the past, in particular food that is not particularly healthy, and people are changing their lifestyles, they have less time to prepare meals and are eating out more in restaurants,’ said Sassi, a former London School of Economics lecturer who worked on the report for three years. That plus the fact that people are much less physically active than in the past means that the ranks of the overweight have swelled to nearly 70 percent in the U.S. this year from well under 50 percent in 1980, according to the OECD.”

Europeans are relatively skinny compared to Americans. But they don’t buy any more gym-memberships than Americans. A European lifestyle is naturally more active than an American one. Walking and biking are part of getting around. Physical activity is integrated into daily life as a necessity, not only as recreation.

But there is hope, and the best defense against the decline of Americans health starts at the home front. Each and every family must create a culture within their own family that cultivates proper nutrition and physical activity. That’s why this site is called Fit American Families and when has America ever backed away from any challenge or fight?

But this time our fight doesn’t start in The White House…it starts in YOUR HOUSE.