Keep fit through play! Experts agree: we all need more physical activity. According to the 2010 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth from Active Healthy Kids Canada, only 12 per cent of our children and youth are getting the recommended 90 minutes a day. How can we change that? “Play more!” says Ed Stiles, certified exercise physiologist and consultant for Blue Imp Recreational Products.
Playgrounds offer an astonishing variety of fitness benefits. “Playgrounds develop the fundamental movement patterns that are essential to global fitness, such as pushing, pulling, kicking, flexing and twisting,” explains Stiles. Playgrounds offer an astonishing variety of fitness benefits. Core and upper-body strength, core mobility and flexibility, agility, balance and coordination can all be developed simply through active play on the playground.
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