Do Kids Need Exercise Machines?
Your Child's Home Gym
By Jennifer Dowd
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The Best Children's Equipment Choices
There is one piece of equipment that you and your preschooler are sure to love—a mini trampoline. Mini trampolines come specially designed for kids with non-slip surfaces and padded handles to help the children balance. In addition to the sheer pleasure your child will experience while bouncing and jumping, a mini trampoline offers tons of physical benefits—cardiovascular endurance, muscle tone, better balance, and the strengthening of ligaments and tendons in the feet and legs.
If you want to set up a home gym for your child but you're tight on space, try these fun home gym options for your kids:
- Jump Rope
- Hula Hoop
- Bouncy-Ball
- Balance Board
- Sit-and-Spin
Even exercise DVDs will help get, and keep, your kids moving.
Whether you have the budget and space to set up a home gym, or just take your little ones to the local park a few times a week, as long as you encourage them to stay active, they probably will.
