Over the weekend, I ran a 5k with our eight and twelve year old. All in all, we had a blast, and I was very impressed with both of them. For our eight year old, it was his very first race, and he performed admirably.
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As I noted in my previous post, Body Mass Index (BMI) is a controversial tool for identifying obesity. The good news is that there’s a new and more accurate measure available for predicting obesity risk in kids.
Over the weekend, I picked up another couple of running partners. Ever since my first 5k, which I ran with our twelve year old, our eight and ten year old have been begging to run one with us.
Man, have I been impressed by our 12 year old son this past week. All four of our kids are on the swim team at our local pool, but our oldest has been doing double duty, as he’s also training for our upcoming 5k.
Earlier in the week, he swam a total of 1900 meters in the morning, and then followed it up with a 5k run after lunch. If we could just work in some biking, we’d have a budding triathlete on our hands!
And yes… All four of our children are way more capable than I ever was.
Over the weekend, I picked up a new running partner — my twelve year old son! After floating the idea past my wife, I approached my son and he was thrilled. We’re not actually running together right now, as our weekday schedules aren’t compatible, but we’re both training for a local Memorial Day 5k.
Our eight year old asked me a funny question the other day:
“How do you build muscles in your nipples? I wanna make my boobs dance.”
Apparently he saw someone on TV flexing their pecs and making them bounce, and he wants try it out himself. I told him to go do some pushups, and off he went.
P.S. Catchy title, huh?
I have a quick little fitness anecdote to share… Earlier today when I went upstairs to exercise, I discovered our eight and nine year old working out together. They were doing sit ups, pushups, etc. And best of all, they weren’t fighting.