Kids Fitness
Youth Personal Training:
Bill works with kids and adolescents to raise athleticism and reach or maintain proper weight. These improvements take place through training of: Balance, Speed & Quickness, Progressive Resistance, proper eating and Mental Imaging Techniques.
Youths have higher self-esteem when they believe in their own abilities, whether it is in sports performance, weight loss, scholastic achievement or social interaction.
Bill Teaches................You Can Do!
Youth Fitness Facts:
About 15 percent of children and adolescents ages 6-19 years are seriously overweight. The percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight has nearly tripled since the early 1970s. Over 10 percent of preschool children between ages 2 and 5 are overweight. Another 15 percent of children and teens ages 6-19 are considered at risk of becoming overweight. Researchers found that lowered self-esteem was associated with being overweight in girls as young as 5. 1 in 5 children in the U.S. are overweight. Children with obesity, ages 10-13, are reported to have a 70% likelihood of obesity persisting into adult years.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC), 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
It's no secret that obesity has taken this country by storm and is a contributing factor to serious health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, Syndrome X, hypertension and others. What is most upsetting is that this epidemic is seriously affecting our kids. It has been said that this may be the first time parents will out live their children (Food Fight, Dr. Kelly Brownell). Obesity is caused by a combination of over nutrition, inactivity and genetic predisposition. What can be done to protect our children from the terrors of this condition? Since there's not much that can be done about the genes we're born with, parents must focus their education and energy on the two elements they can control, eating and activity.
When it comes to fitness, kids are not miniature adults. They have specific physiologic differences that make them unique. Therefore, their fitness programs and activities must be specific to their developmental stage and not just a watered down version of an adult's.
Bill makes Fitness Fun