When we were little we barely watched television and computers and video games were quite rare. Today, new life habits have left our children many more hours sitting in the armchair (or in the chairs in class, studying, extracurricular ...) and in front of the screens.
In addition, the habit of walking gives way to transfers in various means of transport, even for short trips.
Does your family maintain adequate physical activity? These self-assessment questionnaires can help you know, and know if you need to change habits to give the space deserved to exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle.
To promote our children to be more active, we have to reflect on how we are and improve the level of activity. Preach by example, let's go.
The PERSEO Program of reference for health and exercise, against obesity, developed in the field of the Naos strategy by the Spanish Ministry of Health and the Food Safety Agency, proposes these tests to test the physical activity we perform in family.
They proposed two models of evaluation of the amount of physical activity performed by sons, daughters, mothers and fathers, and some recommendations in this regard.
We have therefore two documents, the one that tests the physical activity of mom and dad and the one that is dedicated to discover if your children are active or sedentary. In the end, the "Activometer" determines how active our children and ourselves are, and whether the results are in orange or red offer us tips for improvement.
We know that moving is growing healthily, so we invite you to test the physical activity of the family With these questionnaires, especially the one dedicated to children that can easily be done with your help.
