What's your exercise personality?
Combined with a balanced healthy diet, physical activity can help everyone in your family achieve and maintain a healthy weight.

Identify your fitness personality
Finding an activity that suits your personality and lifestyle will help you stick with it, says Nathalie Lambert, Olympic medallist and physical activity specialist.
• A high energy person should try inline skating or an aerobic dance class.
• Yoga would suit someone with a quieter personality.
• Moms with kids should sign up for a parent-child class such as swimming or hip-hop dancing.
“And if you have a tight budget, activity can be as simple as walking to a nearby park and playing soccer or tag with your kids,” adds Nathalie.

Kids benefit too!
Lambert recommends that families take an hour or two every weekend to do fun group activities that everyone enjoys, such as swimming and biking. “Studies show that when parents are active, their children are six times more likely to be active.”

For more great ideas about finding activities that you’ll enjoy, visit yourhealthyweight.ca.