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Fitness Guide
Family Fitness Centers
When it comes to keeping the whole family fit then one answer to the problem is to be found at your local family fitness centre.
Family fitness centers are springing up all across the country nowadays and are a far cry from the old-fashioned gym. Indeed they have even given rise to the terms 'American family fitness' and 'American family fitness center'.
Although the gym as we tend to picture it with row upon row of exercise machines and people fitting in a quick thirty minute exercise routine during their lunch break or after work do still exist, most of them are anything but family friendly.
Family fitness centers are however aimed very much at families and will provide a range of activities for the whole family to enjoy from organized workout and aerobics programs to badminton, tennis, swimming and many other activities.
Many family fitness centers will also provide restaurant facilities and there is often more than enough to do, making them an ideal place not only for the family, but for family and friends to meet up for a combined fitness and social gathering.
Fitness is vital for health whether you're seven or seventy but any fitness program that is not also simply fun will not last for long.
Quality family time is also extremely important, so why not combine the two and make your local family family fitness center one of your regular ports of call.
Anaerobic training: Training for very fit individuals that improves the efficiency of the body's anaerobic energy-producing systems and can increase muscular strength and lactic acid tolerance during high-intensity efforts.
Kilojoule (kJ): A measure of the energy value, for example in food and physical activity. 1 kilojoule (kJ) = 0.238 kilocalories (kcal)
OwnCal: A feature on some Polar Heart Rate Monitors that tracks both the energy expended (in kcalories) in a single exercise session as well as cumulative calories burned on a weekly, monthly or even yearly basis.
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