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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Ab Workout - Teaching Youngsters How To Exercise Properly

By Jose Loni

Your influence on your children making an ab workout a part of their daily lives is tremendous. It starts when they see you achieving and maintaining balance with regards to eating and exercising and when you deliberately pick the healthier, as well as smaller, food options in the face of bewildering, tempting choices. When parents make it a point not to live a 'sitting' lifestyle, children will absorb that and subconsciously live the way their parents do.

The single largest factor in childhood obesity is lack of physical activity and excessive sedentary behaviour-watching too much television and playing too many video games. This sedentary lifestyle is the greatest risk factor when it comes to collecting fat around the abdomen. Abdominal fat is the invisible fat surrounding the inner organs, which gives the stomach its roundness and height.

Excess fat in the stomach area is more damaging for the heart than a few extra pounds on your bottom, thighs and hips. Each centimeter increase in the waistline increases the risk of heart disease because abdominal fat is more active. It enters the blood system and adversely affects our blood vessels, liver, blood fats and blood pressure. It also slows sugar metabolism since the body's insulin becomes less effective.

Proper exercise is the best way to correct these health risks because exercise can melt away abdominal fat. And exercise can be something as regular as walking and playing or running in the park. Anything that gets you moving. Two to three times a week for at least 30 minutes each time greatly decreases the incidence of abdominal obesity in children. Parents can get their kids playing outdoors more and participating in organized sports instead of leaving them lounging in front of the television and computer or gaming consoles all day.

Educational institutions should also ensure they have an interesting and modern lineup of P. E. programs and activities, like kickboxing, swimming, dance, and even martial arts that can entice students to readily participate and ingrain the habit while young.

The community-at-large (including restaurants and schools) can offer smaller food portions and better food choices, meaning foods lower in fat and sugar and higher in complex carbs, protein and fiber. Parents need to be conscious of the example they're setting and so have to serve well-balanced, nutritious meals at home and even whien packing lunches.

There is an unfortunate correlation between the increase in child obesity and the popularity of video games. In addition, a decreased interest in customary outdoor play, overuse of the internet and the proliferation of television programming contribute to the rise in childhood obesity.

However, teaching youngsters how to exercise properly as part of their ab workout program can still be done. It is never too late to teach them how to enjoy physical activities on a daily basis, to choose better quality foods and to impart the wisdom of portion downsizing. In these tougher economic times, doing all this can actually help you save more than you know. - 17273

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