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Family Fitness Fun for the New Year

This year why not factor fitness in by including some of the following activities for you and your family?

•Take a family walk around the neighborhood, or go to a park and take a nature hike.

•Create your own family video of exercise routines.

•Invent a new dance and name it after your family.

•Play some music and invite everyone to dance – from children to grandparents.

•Play “Twister” or other active indoor games.

•Invite the whole family to ‘act out’ a story as you read it.

•Create an indoor playground with items such as nerf and beach balls, a badminton set, and an over the door basketball hoop.

•Use physical activity rather than food as a reward –

for example, everybody goes to the roller rink or bowling.

•Start a log of daily fitness activities for each family member.

(Suggestions above adapted from Shape Up America’s 99 Tips for Family Fitness Fun.

See www.shapeup.org for more ideas.)