Resources

Youth Fitness includes:

1. Musculoskeletal assessment

2. Motor skill and Primal Pattern assessment

3. Sport specific or age specific assessment

4. Nutrition and lifestyle assessments

5. Program design, DVD and 1:1 review, program progression over a 3-12 month period of time

Statistics on adolescent obesity in America:
-About 15 percent of children and adolescents ages 6-19 years are seriously overweight.
-The percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight has nearly tripled since the early 1970s.
-Over 10 percent of preschool children between ages 2 and 5 are overweight.
-Another 15 percent of children and teens ages 6-19 are considered at risk of becoming overweight.
-Researchers found that lowered self-esteem was associated with being overweight in girls as young as 5.
-1 in 5 children in the U.S. are overweight.
-Children with obesity, ages 10-13, are reported to have a 70% likelihood of obesity persisting into adult years.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC), 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)