Liza N. Burby, NewsdayLourie Figueroa Montes, associate executive director of the Flushing YMCA, says that in addition to the obvious health benefits to exercising together, there is another bonus to working out with your kids. “Busy parents and children need to have time to do things together,” she says. “Exercising becomes an important bonding experience.”
But it doesn’t take a gym setting to get children involved, she says. Try a backyard badminton game, swinging at the playground, a family basketball game
in the driveway or a long walk through the neighborhood.