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)
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