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WORKOUT FOR KIDS

  • 13-05-2013 9:27am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭


    Hi,

    hope im posting in the right place here - Looking for help here - need a workout for kids (25min or so)

    indoors - like starjumps and running on the spot of something like this - please need to help a child thats getting a little heavy - dislikes all exercise so i want to do it with them and include the other kids as well.

    Have tried walking with her and its like you have to drag her - have an exersied bike and she barely pushes the pedals around(likes to cycle outside but our roads are soo danergous)
    Got a mini trampoline and she done it for the first week and now she will barely bounce on it!!!!

    Help pleeeese

    Thanks in advance :)


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,512 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    The workout isn't as important as the diet. You cant exercise past an unhealthy eating plan.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭xxfelix


    Healthy enough:-

    Breakfast - ceral one day and brown bread toasted the other & actimel

    Lunch - sandwich on brown bread or ham roll sometime crackers and butter or toasted sandwich or tuna sandwich & fruit & water/mi wadi

    dinner - patatoes/mince or chicken or fish/ beans or turnip

    snack - yogurt or fruit

    Treat at the weekend also chips/pizza type food on saturday


  • Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Where are all the vegetables?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,512 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    A lot of breakfast cereals are pure ****e, stick to porridge or weetabix if possible. Keep an eye on the portions too. Ham roll: the roll is white french bread style? Drop it if so. Drop the crackers unless they are rice crackers. Try to get more veg in there - your spuds and mince are prime candidates for sneaky veg such as diced onion or shredded carrot.

    Kids wont stick at things that are boring, not without you being there to make them. Go for a cycle/walk whatever at the weekend as a family. Try to make the exercise a fun activity rather than a chore.

    What age is the kid, old enough to be buying sneaky snacks themselves? Have you cleaned out the chocolate and crisps from the house?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭xxfelix


    look really fussy eaters in my house - no no to most things - im doing my best here!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,512 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    xxfelix wrote: »
    look really fussy eaters in my house - no no to most things - im doing my best here!

    It can be challenging alright but the alternative isn't working for you right now, or you'd not be here posting :) A bit of onion in mince won't kill them, nor will eating less sugary cereals. Coco Pops, for example, are 17% sugar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭xxfelix


    It can be challenging alright but the alternative isn't working for you right now, or you'd not be here posting :) A bit of onion in mince won't kill them, nor will eating less sugary cereals. Coco Pops, for example, are 17% sugar.

    its cornflakes actually but What do you suggest - tube feeding porrige perhaps?

    exersise advice was what i was after btw....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,512 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    Cornflakes are fine if you don't put sugar on them.

    Force them to go for a 30 minute walk every day. Thats your exercise sorted.

    You cannot exercise out of a ****e diet. Your kid is putting on weight because they eat too much of the wrong foods. Unless you address this you are wasting your time.

    edit: random sample taken from first google result:
    So why isn't it realistic to think in terms of exercising away every additional calorie? Most of us don't have the time. It may take 2 minutes to eat a 350-calorie piece of cake, but someone who weighs 100 pounds (about 45 kg) would need to walk for more than 2 hours to burn it off.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    xxfelix wrote: »
    its cornflakes actually but What do you suggest - tube feeding porrige perhaps?

    exersise advice was what i was after btw....


    Make the porridge exciting or give them ready brek or weetabix and put fruit in it. My little ones love that.


    Ensure the mince is 95% fat free, the good stuff. Keep away from sachets of stuff.

    Make chcken currys etc. Buy mallon sausages as more meat in them than crap.

    A treat at the weekend can be chocolate bar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    One thing I would say, without knowing the size of the pizzas or chips. I'd avoid getting in the habit of having a weekly treat if it means take-away. If the kid thinks it's normal to eat junk once a week she'll be ordering take-away once a week for the rest of her life.

    Trying to force her to work out may cause you both stress in the long term, maybe just keep trying different sports until she finds one that fits.

    How dangerous can the roads be? If she likes cycling take her cycling. People drastically overestimate the danger of Irish roads.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,535 ✭✭✭btkm8unsl0w5r4


    1. As stated try diet alteration, remember that portion control is as important as introducing variety. If they are fussy eaters, while you get that sorted cut portion size. Dont have seconds, dont have snacks after dinner. Dont have junk in the house. Hunger is the best sauce.

    2. Kid dont lick these things off a stick, are you setting a good example yourself and the other adults in the house.

    3. Kids dont need exercise, they need activity thats fun. Dancing with other kids, going to the park, chasing a dog, hide and seek, sport. Anything where the primary goal is fun and the secondary benefit is exercise. A lot of these things are not where you put a device in the garden and get them to play there on their own, you have to do it with them. If the child is old enough a martial arts class or dance class/gymnastics can build a lot of confidence along with exercise.

    4. Keep the carbs to a minimum, pasta, white bread, rice. All fairly empty calories.

    5. As a heavy child myself, please sort this out now. It aint now fun being fat and no I wasn't jolly either.

    6. Your kids do as they are told, eat what they are given, and do the activities set out by their parents. They are children and you are an adult. Yes there will be tantrums, and crying. But this is for their own good. Yes I have children myself.

    Good luck.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭xxfelix


    How dangerous can the roads be? If she likes cycling take her cycling. People drastically overestimate the danger of Irish roads.[/QUOTE]

    VERY would be the answer - we live in the country - very busy all the time and lunatic drivers actually - i have tried!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,512 ✭✭✭runawaybishop




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,969 ✭✭✭hardCopy


    xxfelix wrote: »
    How dangerous can the roads be? If she likes cycling take her cycling. People drastically overestimate the danger of Irish roads.

    VERY would be the answer - we live in the country - very busy all the time and lunatic drivers actually - i have tried!![/QUOTE]

    Could you even drive to a quieter side road to start off? I know you say you tried but if she has a natural interest in cycling I'd try and encourage that rather than push her into something that doesn't fit.

    Cycle with her and stay behind and slightly to her right to make sure cars give her space.

    Most cyclists head straight to the country every weekend, country roads are usually the best places to cycle.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭xxfelix


    ok - i'm gonna try - can't take her somewhere as ther aint enough hours in my day - 1/2hr to hour is what i have as i have other kids and work full time - i am doing my best REALLY as she has extra work along with homework due to her learning difficulties and trying to juggle all kids equally and before you say bring them all - i cant there too small at the moment thats why i thought a workout at home together would be better.

    She does swimming /karate also and hip hop once weekly

    So ill cut out the pizza/chips and the like at the weekend - will TRY and push more veggies -


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,864 ✭✭✭✭average_runner


    xxfelix wrote: »
    ok - i'm gonna try - can't take her somewhere as ther aint enough hours in my day - 1/2hr to hour is what i have as i have other kids and work full time - i am doing my best REALLY as she has extra work along with homework due to her learning difficulties and trying to juggle all kids equally and before you say bring them all - i cant there too small at the moment thats why i thought a workout at home together would be better.

    She does swimming /karate also and hip hop once weekly

    So ill cut out the pizza/chips and the like at the weekend - will TRY and push more veggies -

    Well if she is swimming/karate and hip hop, its probably just her diet that needs changing


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,512 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    xxfelix wrote: »
    ok - i'm gonna try - can't take her somewhere as ther aint enough hours in my day - 1/2hr to hour is what i have as i have other kids and work full time - i am doing my best REALLY as she has extra work along with homework due to her learning difficulties and trying to juggle all kids equally and before you say bring them all - i cant there too small at the moment thats why i thought a workout at home together would be better.

    She does swimming /karate also and hip hop once weekly

    So ill cut out the pizza/chips and the like at the weekend - will TRY and push more veggies -
    The swimming/karate/hip hop are good - if you can try adding something at the weekend. With all that + what they do in school the amount of exercise looks fine to be honest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Coco Pops, for example, are 17% sugar.
    Actually just over double that, 35% sugar

    http://www.kelloggs.ie/en_IE/coco-pops-consumer-brand.html
    xxfelix wrote: »
    its cornflakes actually but What do you suggest - tube feeding porrige perhaps?
    You can make pancakes using porridge oats, milk & eggs. I would not breathe a word to a kid about them being made with porridge oats though, it would probably put them off them right away. You can make batches of thick ones which can be toasted each morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭xxfelix


    rubadub wrote: »
    Actually just over double that, 35% sugar

    http://www.kelloggs.ie/en_IE/coco-pops-consumer-brand.html

    You can make pancakes using porridge oats, milk & eggs. I would not breathe a word to a kid about them being made with porridge oats though, it would probably put them off them right away. You can make batches of thick ones which can be toasted each morning.

    must try that thanks :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭gymfreak


    1. As stated try diet alteration, remember that portion control is as important as introducing variety. If they are fussy eaters, while you get that sorted cut portion size. Dont have seconds, dont have snacks after dinner. Dont have junk in the house. Hunger is the best sauce.

    2. Kid dont lick these things off a stick, are you setting a good example yourself and the other adults in the house.

    3. Kids dont need exercise, they need activity thats fun. Dancing with other kids, going to the park, chasing a dog, hide and seek, sport. Anything where the primary goal is fun and the secondary benefit is exercise. A lot of these things are not where you put a device in the garden and get them to play there on their own, you have to do it with them. If the child is old enough a martial arts class or dance class/gymnastics can build a lot of confidence along with exercise.

    4. Keep the carbs to a minimum, pasta, white bread, rice. All fairly empty calories.

    5. As a heavy child myself, please sort this out now. It aint now fun being fat and no I wasn't jolly either.

    6. Your kids do as they are told, eat what they are given, and do the activities set out by their parents. They are children and you are an adult. Yes there will be tantrums, and crying. But this is for their own good. Yes I have children myself.

    Good luck.

    This post was absolutely spot on.

    Diet is the first thing that you need to look at. You need to ensure that your child is eating healthy, portion controlled meals. You havent mentioned what age your child is..Im just wondering whether you child is snacking without you knowing...I literally had a 7 year old come into my classroom this morning who had just eaten 2 chocolate bars for breakfast..:eek::eek:...he had money is his pocket and stopped off at the shop before school.

    Secondly be careful how you approach exercise with your child. You want your child to grow up fit and healthy with a love and enthusiasm for being active. You say that your child does karate and hip hop..why not put on hip hop shows in the house where your child can spend time making up and practising routines and then perform them in front of the family...same goes with the karate.

    Other fun ways of exercising would be organising games of rounders, tip the can, chasing, tennis, dodgeball, skipping etc You would be suprised at how interested children get playing these games when they are taught how to play by an adult. TBH that is a major problem with children these days..they just dont know how to play. They need to be taught games and then have them monitored by an adult.

    Let us know how you are getting on!! :)


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