Intu-Flow???? And Kids??? Coach??

[JohnBaumchen]

Ok I have two 6 year old boys and one 9 year old soon to be 10 years old. One of the problems I have is that 6 year olds are reckless with reguard to form and my 9 year old only wants to do the bare minimum. The 6 years want to workout but are too reckless and my 9 year old is able to workout but lacks motivation or drive. So for the 9 year old I have had him doing isometrics each night for about 3 months now. He does not mind doing them and it is better then nothing and is building the habit of exerciseing. So am looking at Intu-Flow and thinking that it would be safe for my 9-10 year old even with the 5lbs. mini-clubells and that my 6 year olds coul use hollow PVC and just do the movements with no resistance. I am thinking that this program would be excellent for teaching them how to move and breath. I have always thought that learning to move is one of the most important things to learn early. I amnot always home so this is something that even my wife could do as far as poping in the DVD and superviseing the boys to make sure they are doing it in a safe effective manner when I am away from home?

So what do you think??? Would this be something that would be good for all of us that we could all do together as a family? Thanks for your time and thoughts!!!-John:D

[shadow]

I have been finding that children, especially the younger ones, develop physically through play and mimicking movements.

That is pretty natural and happens throughout the mammal kingdom.

For ones own children, I have a 3-yo stepson, I find that setting the example oneself is best.
I do my thing, he watches sometimes.
And, unsurprisingly, some of the movements I engage in end up in his movement palette while he plays.

Just recently I got some gym-rings. I set them up and while I work on something else he grabs them and swings on them. It was the third time for him to play on yesterday and he is able to do an isometric hold (while swinging) in the top part of a pullup position! To him he is just playing, to me I can see the neural development happening.

Whilst I don't have too much more experience than this, although I intend to start kids classes soon, my feeling is that for 'training' children the idea is to subtly give structure to their play.

Intu-flow, as is, is too much for a kid... even a 9 year old. It involves standing still for too long and whilst we know the benefits of it, to their young joints it is not quite the same.
Playing with mini-clubbells, however, may be something else.

Anyways those are just a couple of thoughts I had. I hope they help somehow.

I know that Coach Sonnon is working on a series of books for children and Coach Hurst has been working with them in Japan, so if they have time maybe they will answer a little bit more.

[JohnBaumchen]

The problem I have is they see me kifting weights and tossing my kettlebells around and they want to do the same. They are two reckless tough for weightlifting. If they would use proper form and not get silly I wouldnot have a problem but weights are not the thing to be silly with. I guess the 9 year old will have to stick with Isometrics for the time being. The down side is that my twins are super into exerciseing. I just let them do their best made up body weight exercise's and praise them while they are doing them. I hopeing to find something the entire family could do though together.

Like I said before they are all super active dureing the warm months but come winter they are much more limited since I will not allow running,jumping,throwing etc... in the house. They still get PE at school though and they do play outside about 1 hour a day even dureing winter though. Well thanks for the advice.

[shadow]

if you know and understand the 7 key components you could always teach them 1 by 1 with specific exercises and then let them explore themselves.

I let my 3 year old stepson play with the miniclubbells sometimes... if he doesn't use them with perfect form, it's ok it is just getting used to having weight in his hands. I know I didn't have 'perfect' technique when I started, I don't think anyone does.