U.S. kids turning to fitness trainers
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Nearly a million American youngsters, some as young as 6, rely on personal trainers to shape up, lose weight or improve in sports, according to figures from the nation's leading sports club association.
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NEW YORK  - U.S. children who live in expansive suburbs may start to pay for it with expansive waistlines, new research suggests.
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A district confronts the shortage by recruiting teens to train.
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Zak DeOssie is sweating, dark pools forming on his T-shirt as fitness guru Mike Boyle pushes him through an odd-appearing set of leaps, bounds, skips, dips, and dashes. It is a bright but frigid February morning at Boyle's strength and conditioning complex in Winchester, an hour's drive from the Brown University campus DeOssie calls home. He has been ...
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It&#39;s no secret that exercising regularly and eating right are the keys to staying fit, but people may find better results when they&#39;re given a little help along the way.
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Some high schools around the United States are using novel, and even unorthodox, methods to get trainers at a reduced cost into their sports programs.
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Incorporating short, weekly sessions on healthy living and social pressures into sports training appears to help young girls fight impulses to diet excessively
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As sports becomes a measure of success in America, young athletes are training ever harder.
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Experts suggest that your genes may determine how much you will benefit from a work-out at the gym.
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NEW YORK  - A new report suggests a simple  strategy for combating obesity among young girls -- increasing  their gym time.
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Gyms are using numbers to lure the middle-aged into exercise programs.
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It is half-past four in the afternoon, and inside the Youth Visions Fitness Center in Upper Marlboro, the air is heavy with perspiration. The music is loud, and little (and not so little) limbs are pushing, jumping, lifting and stretching in varying degrees of time to the beat.
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10 (HealthDayNews)  Exercise-intervention programs can help boost physical activity in children, says a study by researchers at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.
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Specialization and year-round play are putting active kids at increased risk of crippling injury
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Young people just need to get started.
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Researchers report that in the typical high school gym class &#151; where there are a few jumping jacks before a halfhearted game of softball &#151; students are active for an average of just 16 minutes.
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Doctors and health advocates have warned for years that American children are getting fatter. Now even some kids&#039; teddy bears are packing on the pounds.