Babies to tweens can enjoy and benefit from a yoga practice.

Beginning a baby or children early on with yoga poses and some intentional deep breathing exercises can stimulate a lifelong love of yoga.

Yoga instructors often use animal themes to encourage children to participate. The yoga kids love to make animal sounds, using yoga poses to imitate animals, as well as create and act out an animal story using yoga poses.

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Yoga for kids sounds like a lot of fun, especially the ending corpse pose.

Instilling a yoga practice into a children’s everyday life can serve the child very well as he/she grows into adulthood.

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Family sports events exude enthusiasm and participation.

Coming up is the Magellan Development Spring Half Marathon and 10 K in Chicago.

Check out this video for some family friendly exercises:

How cool and fun is that?

Spring has arrived in the US – time to move!

Children fitness can be so much fun when approached as a family fun time.

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Yoga and kids? Might sound like an odd mix when you think of an hour long yoga class.

Ilana Danneman, the Director of Product Education and Innovation at Fun and Function has a different idea.

She has designed a deck of cards illustrating 44 yoga poses to be used by kids who have a variety of physical abilities.

Check it out!

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Awesome! I’ll be ordering a set today.

Tip: If you sit in front of a computer all day, how about buying a set for yourself to use to avoid that “sitting in front of a computer all day” fatigue.

Let’s benefit from the Yoga for Kids program too!

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A variety of well know organizations are speaking out about the benefits of strength training for children as young as seven or eight.

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Sport Medicine talk about the value of strength training for young athletes as well as children who are dealing with obesity.l

They debunk some of the “old school” thought that strength training can be harmful to growing bodies.

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We’ve heard the caution about “don’t let your child lift weights….., they’ll hurt themselves.”

As the article points out, unsupervised strength training might just cause injury.

The key is to arrange for your child(ren) to work with professionals in a supervised environment.

Fascinating, cutting edge information about children and fitness.

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What are we talking about here?

Captain Crunch cereal?

Not at all!

Crunch Fitness, an international fitness franchise, opens its ninth United States based location in Bellevue, Washington, this month.

The Crunch Fitness company has opened 14 locations world-wide.

Their corporate philosophy focuses on No Judgments and making fitness fun.

Details are here:

The facility sounds totally awesome, quite the happening place to be.

Their desire of making fitness fun, especially for children fitness, will be interesting to watch.

If you live in the Bellevue area, and get to experience this new facility, please come back to comment and share.

We’d really like to hear!

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