Getting Your Kids To Walk The Distance During Halloween
You just finished the 3rd house on your block and the inevitable happens. “I’m tired can you carry me.” We have all heard it before. So, here are a couple of ways you can get the kids to walk their Trick-or-Treat route. Tell them they can get there Marathon kids mile in. After each time...
Friday Family Fun: Morgan’s Wonderland in San Antonio
I have to give credit to my kids because we went to the San Antonio Zoo yesterday and the walk to the entrance was about a mile (really), the park was PACKED, the animals all looked sad and were sleeping or pacing in circles, and I kept feeding them healthy cardboard snacks because San Antonio...
Tuesday Trainer: Hiking With Your Kids
As spring emerges, so does hiking season for a lot of us. I recently went on a 3.5 mile hike with my 3-year-old and 6-year-old. The 3-year-old is easy because I carry him in a backpack most of the time. Getting my 6-year-old through the hike, however, sometimes can be tricky. Now, I KNOW that...
Add Walking To Your Daily Routine
“Regular physical activity is probably as close to a magic bullet as we will come in modern medicine,” Says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. “If everyone, in the U.S. were to walk briskly 30-40 minutes a day, we could cut the incidence of many chronic diseases 30-40%.”...
