You probably notice a decrease in our youth population's physical activity. As we face new challenges and are forced to adapt to our new environment, You may ask yourself, how do I get purposeful movement into my child's daily regiment.
Redefine Exercise
Educating in simple terms that our ancestors needed to move to survive. They hunted, gathered, and farmed to survive. Their ability to hunt down their food relied on cardiovascular fitness. The word Exercise did not exist when our ancestors were living. They did basic movements such as push, pull, hinge, squat, and carry heavy things.
Define Movement
You can define movement as any pain-free activity. Some activities include walking, running, yard work, basic strength training, biking, hiking, and general sports. These activities are what kids enjoy doing. Some benefits include proper motor patterns, increased performance in any sport, healthy lifestyle habits, and strengthening bones and tendons by adding appropriate control stress.
Modify your understanding of Exercise
Changing our exercise perspective and learning how to add purposeful movement into daily life can create healthy habits and learn term success—adding a variety of options that will generate more exposure to different learning elements. The biggest take away is making sure we don't confuse additional terms such as powerlifting, Olympic lifting, Crossfit with strength training. Strength Training is about long term development. Movement is the vehicle for self-discovery.
Example of our Athlete Lola demonstrating basic movement patterns. Simply adding movement to her daily routine, she had developed a growth in movement competency.
Parents, my staff, and I (Brown Performance Strength and Conditioning) are 100% dedicated to your child's safety as much as we are improving human performance. Our research and dedication to our craft and profession can't emphasize enough the importance of your child participating in a good strength training program. If we are asked not to have your child perform strength training, we feel the risk of injury to your child will rise, and that is the last thing we want for you and your child.
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