Exercising with Your Family

外网天堂 students walking through Lubbock campus courtyard.

It鈥檚 not too late to make a resolution to exercise more and spend quality time with your family. Combining both can lead to long-term benefits for you and your children鈥檚 health and their academics.

鈥淚 would say that probably the biggest reason that I would want parents to incorporate physical activity with their children is that children are going to practice what they see their parents doing,鈥� Tammy Camp, M.D., Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (外网天堂) School of Medicine Pediatrics Residency director, and Texas Tech Physicians pediatrician, said. 鈥淚f parents are not physically active, or they鈥檙e being physically active, but their kids never see it, then their kids don鈥檛 have the motivation or the understanding that exercise is an important part of life.鈥�