Team Fitness America Talks About Teens Versus Obesity

June 25, 2010 - PRLog -- With parents working longer hours to support their families, many have turned to feeding their children fast food or quick, prepackaged meals. Coupled in with the fact that school lunch programs do not provide adequate nutrition and gym classes that occur a mere two hours a week, a rise in childhood and teen obesity has occurred.

According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), 32% of our teens are overweight and 19% of those are obese. Teens are now susceptible to heart disease, heart attacks, diabetes and even cancer among other diseases that they should not have to deal with at their age. In addition, many teens are ridiculed if they are overweight and cannot keep up with their smaller, faster peers. As a parent, no one wants to see their child made fun of or have to sit in a hospital room while their child gets dialysis because of food they were fed.

Parents can no longer expect schools to teach their children nutrition and exercise, they must take matters into their own hands to ensure that their child will not become overweight and be at risk for these deadly diseases. But what can parents that have almost no time at all do to help their child lose weight or stay in shape? Hire an in home personal trainer of course!

A busy parent simply does not have an extra hour to spare. Sending a personal trainer direct to the home will alleviate the need to race to a gym or studio after work with your child and wait. With the personal trainer in the home, precious time is saved by not racing around spending gas and time to get to a gym.

Having a personal fitness trainer come direct allows you to monitor the sessions and see exactly how your child is doing with fitness and grasping the concepts of exercise. Some personal training companies, like Team Fitness America, will permit you to workout with your teen for no additional charge. So spending time with your child and working out together can be fun, plus it is like getting a whole workout for yourself for free.

The personal trainer can help with nutrition and tell you what to prepare to lower your child’s blood pressure, weight and keep them on the right track. They can answer any questions regarding nutritional value of certain foods and how they affect teens versus adults. Some in home personal trainers can recommend recipes for you to try or even take you to the grocery store and help you shop for healthy nutritious meals.

Children that are already overweight and ashamed of their size will benefit from one on one instruction where they area not judged by their peers or made uncomfortable in a gym setting. A personal trainer can answer all of their questions and show them the proper techniques to exercise in a safe environment. Results in terms of weight loss and health will be quicker with one on one instruction and if a teen feels safe and secure they are more likely to continue to work out and exercise.

By having an in home personal trainer they can mentor your teen and instill nutritional and exercise values that will be carried throughout their adult years ensuring that they will have the tools necessary to make good healthy food choices and exercise on a weekly basis.

Lastly, in home personal trainers will make the workout fun for a teen. Adults are easier to entertain for an hour workout but teens need to have fun. An in home personal trainer can tailor the workout to each teen, from cones to hula hoops to weights or even zumba classes. If a teen thinks that a workout is fun, the hour will fly by and they are more likely to look forward to the next session that will be fun. Taking a class at a gym will not be tailored to a teen and they may find it boring and not want to work out. If teens associate boredom with exercise they will remain overweight.  

The CDC reported that children that are fed nutritious food have a better attention span and higher grades. If the teen is eating fast food and not working out their mental functioning has been shown to be lower and their grades lower than that of teens that are fit and eat healthy. Having an in home personal trainer to teach them nutrition and exercise will increase their attention span and thus improve grades in the long run.

In home personal trainers can assist the entire family with exercise and nutrition goals. They specialize in everything from weight loss to toning to sports and conditioning. There are many benefits from having an in home personal trainer come direct to the house to assist the family in all their goals. From nutrition to meal planning to actual workouts, Team Fitness America can provide the entire family with a healthy plan that everyone can benefit from and at a reasonable cost.

For more information about Team Fitness America, visit http://www.teamfitnessamerica.com.

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