Do you take responsibility for the health of your children?

I often think about the way I view  my health and fitness in relation to that of my children. My younger kids love sport and both play school A team hockey and club hockey as well.

I have sorted gym membership for them given them eating and training plans and check that they are spending regular time in the gym. My 16 year old son left his training log in my car yesterday and I was very pleased to see that he is committed to documenting his training and sports events, to the point of recognising in the comments section that documenting progress is essential.

So far so good, but I was really impressed when I saw a dad in the gym with his little one, maybe three years old, under a bar doing bench press. Before I sense howls of protest,  dad obviously knows what he is doing and is very careful with what he does with the youngster.

More importantly he is instilling a sense of ‘fitness lifestyle’ which is better than any material gift we could give our kids. We all have a responsibility to our children and essentially are responsible for their health and fitness and the younger we start with them the better our relationship will be and easier it will be to maintain the  lifetsyle against all the pressures of the world we live in today.

For me personally, I train with my twenty three year old daughter and I can certainly attest to the quality of my relationship with her as a direct result  not only from a physical viewpoint but a mental and emotional one as well.

If you have children you have the responsibility….don’t tell them, show them..LET’S GET MOVING.