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Healthy Children > Healthy Living > Fitness

Fitness

There's no scarcity of activities that you can make available to your child, and all kids can find some form of exercise that they enjoy. If you can get your child interested in an activity like this when he's young, exercise and fitness are more likely to become a habit that lasts for many decades.

Fitness articles

Aerobic Capacity and Training Ability
Body Composition and Flexibility
Encouraging Your Child to be Physically Active
Exercise-Important for the Whole Family (Audio)
Finding Time to Be Active
How to Get Fit
Making Fitness a Way of Life
Overcoming Tissue Damage and Stress Chemicals Associated with Exercise
Physical Activity and Early Childhood (Video)
Physical Activity and Your Child's Safety
Physical Activity: Make the Right Choice for Your Child
Preventing Injury in Children's Sports
Turning Family Time into Active Time
Weight Training and Lifting
Weight Training: Age and Development
Weight Training: Availability of Equipment and Adequate Supervision
Weight Training: Risk of Injury

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