Exercise and Active Lifestyle Resources
Kids who exercise regularly are more physically fit, develop stronger bones and muscles, sleep better and tend to perform better in school. They're also better able to handle physical and emotional challenges. Discover ways you can help your child enjoy benefits of physical activity.
- Active fitness for kids who don't like sports
- Body mass index (BMI)
- Easy exercises for teens
- Exercise is wise
- Exercise tips
- Fitness and exercise - compulsive exercise
- Fitness and exercise - fitness and your 13- to 18-year-old
- Fitness and exercise - fitness and your 2- to 3-year-old
- Fitness and exercise - fitness and your 4- to 5-year-old
- Fitness and exercise - fitness and your 6- to 12-year-old
- Fitness and exercise - fitness for kids who don't like sports
- Fitness and exercise - kids and exercise
- Fitness and exercise - preventing children's sports injuries
- Fitness and exercise - strength training and your child
- Fitness for preschoolers
- Fitness for school age kids
- Get kids active
- Getting your preschooler to be active
- Getting your school-age kids to be physically active
- Healthy habits for media use
- Healthy TV, video game and internet habits
- How much exercise do kids need?
- How to prevent baseball injuries in youth sports
- Keep an exercise log
- Kids and exercise
- Media use guidelines: big kids
- Media use guidelines: preschoolers
- Media use guidelines: teens
- My daily routine
- Obesity and the two headed dragon
- Physical activity planner
- Preventing overuse injuries in youth sports
- Raising a fit preschooler
- Screen time guidelines for teens
- Sports and exercise safety
- Sports medicine
- Sports physicals
- Sports safety
- Strength training
- Stretching
- The magic of play and early development
- Why are my breasts sore?
- Your child's weight
Hydration
- A-Z: dehydration
- Caffeine
- Dehydration
- Drinking tap water during pregnancy
- Healthy drinks, healthy kids
- Healthy drinks, healthy kids chart
- Heat illness
- How to be safe when you're in the sun
- Is it ok if my child drinks clear soda? Is it better for you?
- Is your child drinking enough water?
- Soda alternative: orange spritzer
- Sports and energy drinks
- Staying hydrated
- Sun safety
- What to do about dehydration
- What’s a health alternative to water?
- What’s best for your baby to drink?
- What's heat exhaustion?
- What's sweat?
- Why drinking water is the way to go