Do you want to inspire your kids to exercise more?

Hey folks, Spartans, welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Way.

I'm your host, Zach Kavnesh, coming to you from beautiful

Pittsfield, Vermont, the birthplace of all things Spartan.

And in this episode, I'm answering a question that was posted on one of our YouTube videos

after we did our last episodes when I asked the listeners what do you want to learn in the

next Spartan Way episode and somebody said how do I inspire my kids to want to exercise and that's a great

question so I want to share with you a story and experience I've had that really

helped me with my kids so on on the weekends, my kids would be playing out front.

I would kind of sneak in a little bit of exercise in the garage,

climbing rope, farmer walking the kettle bells up and down the street and before long I

started seeing my daughter swinging on the climbing rope my son was climbing that

rope that became their normal simply by me setting the example.

So it's not so much do I have to tell them to exercise.

It's about showing them what I'm doing and having fun with it. now they were young at the time right year and a half three and a half I've also had experience with older kids you know kids that are almost teenagers or kids that are in their younger teen years and I had a parent who was running

Spartan races tell me how she became addicted to running these Spartan races

but her son was not exercising he didn't want to go out for runs with her, whether it was cold or too hot.

And I said, you know, there's two things that I think about with kids, things that I hope my kids

experience when they go to school and it's number one are they having fun and

number two make them feel safe I even do it at my gym I bring them in and that first

workout is easy they're done before they're done.

It doesn't exhaust them. It makes them feel better when they're done with the

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