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Talk about going to extremes, some parents are hiring personal trainers and nutritionists so their children can get into shape!

Personal Training Kids

At a cost of up to 100$/hour, personal training is still among the more expensive luxuries out there but that doesn’t prevent over a million of them in the United States from getting one to improve their fitness. From the 1970s till now, the rate of obesity in the younger generations has ballooned from just under six percent to almost 20 percent! When I was a kid, I don’t remember ever seeing an obese kid, now, walking in any shopping mall, you sadly see too many of them.

Hmmm… where are the parents?

Children have no income, they rely almost completely on their parents for their food and associated recreational activities. If your child is obese, the problem isn’t with the child… it’s with the PARENTS! Sending your kid off to personal training 3x a week is no different then sending them to the dentist every three months. The results come from what is done in between those sessions, not the sessions themselves. For instance, get your kid to workout, great! Then they come back home to two parents who neglect their own body and feed the child the equivalent of junk food for breakfast (if they get one), lunch and supper with a few snacks in between. Guess what, that child will not only remain obese, but the habits you have instilled into them are going to last a lifetime. The kids don’t need a personal trainer, the parents do!

Schools are to blame?

Another increasing fact is that schools are putting more of a focus on educating their kids at the expense (in some) of making them physically active. Parents, wrongly, blame schools for their kids obesity. Well, school lasts 8 hours a day, you sleep 8, so that leave about 8 hours when your child is NOT in school… so yet again, it’s the parents lack of motivation and habit forming that is the cause of childhood obesity. Not the schools (although they aren’t helping much), not the governments (they don’t really care anyways) and not societies. I also find it interesting that the vast majority of obese kids you see in the mall have obese parents, sure, genetics plays a role but you cannot become fat by breathing. You have to work HARD at continually developing poor eating and exercise habits which, you pass on to your children with the same results. The biggest role model for your child growing up healthy and happy is… THE PARENTS. I know for me, my fathers focus on physical fitness was a great inspiration to me, one that continues to this day.

The Bottom Line

If you suffer from obesity yourself, or worse, your children. The solution isn’t with a personal trainer, the solution is within yourself and you need to get your child involved, otherwise, they will suffer the same fate as yourself.

References

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=3314625&page=1