How can you and your parents exercise together?
There are a lot of things you can do to make making exercising as easy as picking up a gym bag and going to class. But one of the easiest ways is to limit the amount of time you spend in inactive states. Here are 10 of the easiest ways to do just that.
Limit Time to Less than 5 Hours a Day
Your body has a limit to how long it can take to recover from physical activity. If you reach a point where you can no longer keep up with the demands placed on your body, it may be time to consider taking a step back from the gym and doing something else, according to Mayo Clinic senior author, Dr. Lisa Ade.
“When people reach a point where they can no longer exercise, they typically turn to something else to cope with the stress,” Ade said in a statement. ““That could be a sport, a musical instrument, a visual activity or a combination of the three.
“When people turn to exercise, they tend to do it more actively, more frequently and for longer periods of time.”
Limit the Number of Activities You Have in Your Day
Activity levels in the family vary widely, according to the Mayo Clinic. Some families exercise multiple times a day, while others exercise infrequently. The ideal amount of physical activity for the family is 30 minutes minimum, followed by an hour of moderate to vigorous physical activity.
Set aside time for Individual Activities
Many families use family vacation time to set aside time for individual activities, such as tennis, a snow day or an ice day. However, not all families participate in these types of initiatives.
How can you and your parents exercise together?
“It’s important that we’re able to go out and enjoy the same type of activities,” says Dr. Deborah Roth, chief medical officer for the YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities, which offer an extensive lineup of wellness and recreational services to the community.
“Healthy eating and exercise aren’t exclusive to the gym,” she says. “It’s important that we exercise together.”
The YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities offers a wide range of integrated health and wellness services to meet the unique needs of the Twin Cities community, including inpatient and outpatient mental health, substance abuse treatment, maternity and newborn care, infant and child health, wellness treatments for postpartum depression and anxiety, stress, diabetes, asthma, allergies and wellness treatments for digestive problems, urinary tract problems, hormonal imbalances and infections.
“We are always looking for ways to improve care and to offer new ways to help people get better,” CEO Laila Ali says. “Exercise is just one way we are trying to accomplish that.”
In a city where exercise is often a spectator sport, it’s not uncommon for families to stick to the gym when their kids are at school, work out together at the gym or go off to a club after dinner. But as kids are spending more time playing outside, it’s becoming more and more important that parents exercise together, a new study indicates.
The study, released this week by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, or Diabetes and the Digestive and Kidney Diseases, or DID.
