13-18 year old article summary

Shamarah Shoup
Fitness and your 13-18 year old article summary

I really liked what the article had to say, and I definitely agree with a lot of it. I love to be active and participate in sports for tons of reasons that coincide with the article. I love the interaction that it creates with other people, and I love how good it makes my body look and feel. The expending of energy is always a plus as well. I usually have bundled up energy which exercising and staying active really help get rid of.
I do want to make one negative comment about the article. In the second paragraph it reads, “regular physical activity now can help prevent heart disease, diabetes, and other medical problems later in life.” I would just like to point out that saying physical activity now can prevent medical problems is a complete inaccurate way to word what they meant to say. They meant to say, “it is now discovered that regular physical activity prevents medical issues(I’m a grammar nazi, so you’ll have to excuse my tangent).
The section referring to the motivation of teens is probably very accurate in that no we do not want to do what we are told and no we do not want to get off of our lazy butts and workout. However, being a teen myself, I will say that I disagree with that part entirely and that if my mother asked me to workout then I would. This does seem like a fairly decent way to motivate teens. Giving them a way to choose what they do really boosts their morale in such a way that they don’t realize what you are doing. Also, working out with friends is even further an excellent way to motivate. Getting your kid to do something as simple as basketball and maybe promising lemonade and cookies after words will really help out your kids ideas as far as being active are concerned.
It is also very important that you listen to what your kid is saying. If they sincerely think that an exercise is not working out for them, or hurts them in some way, you must listen. Otherwise the activity could be performed wrong if they do not want to do it. Consulting a doctor really helps in this sort of situation, maybe a child with asthma will want to find particular ways of doing cardio vascular workouts. Be certain to work with a child’s needs.
Also, be paying attention to eating habits. Obviously, you will want to be steering children away from steroid use. Teens should not be using these or other muscle/performance enhancers. A healthy diet should be enough combined with exercise to keep your child healthy. Parents must be certain that their child is eating correctly. Keep an eye out for signs of eating disorders and other things that could seriously affect a teens health.
It is very helpful if you show your teen that you are wiling to exercise with them. I really hate that hypocritical viewpoint when people brag about how they know all about eating healthy and the correct ways to workout but then they turn around and sit on the couch all day watching Oprah.
All in all though I would like to say that this article did have quite a few grammatical errors that drove me nuts to read. The fact that a published article had that many errors did make me wonder about the credibility of it and I am not certain that I trust all that it said. It did not cite several statements that it made, nor did it back them up in any way. I was simply to believe the assertations made throughout the article were accurate.