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Rick Osbourne - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Rick Osbourne spent 17 years as a physical educator and coach. He currently serves as Executive Director of Operation Pull Your Own Weight, an informational web site whose claim to fame is its ability to naturally immunize kids against obesity for life. Osbourne is also a public speaker, and his book “Operation Pull Your Own Weight: A Radically Simple Solution to Childhood Obesity,” (on Amazon) shows parents and educators how to motivate kids to ... [More]
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- One Simple Gesture That Turns the Tide on Childhood Obesity in a Heartbeat
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] In one simple gesture that would take less than two minutes, President Obama could turn the tide and show the world how to win the war on childhood obesity in less than one decade. The question is, will he do it?
- For Under $20 Turn Any Swing Set Into a Childhood Obesity Prevention Machine That Really Works
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] With a few bucks (under $20) and a little know how, any swing set in the nation (playground or backyard) can easily be transformed into a childhood obesity prevention machine that really works. I'll prove it to you. Here's what you'll need in order to produce this minor miracle.
- A Big Problem Plus a Viable Childhood Obesity Prevention Solution Equals Meaningful Jobs Galore
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] America has lots of big problems today, but none is bigger and more threatening than the shattered economy that the Obama administration is attempting to patch back together in the wake of our economic 9/11. And, according to most experts, on both sides of the political isle, the biggest and most challenging problem for the economy is the out of control cost of healthcare which as quadrupled over the past decade while wages have stagnated or lost ground. Left unchecked healthcare costs will consume 50% of GDP by 2020 and in the process it will provide America's Titanic with its own iceberg. Here's a simple solution.
- Childhood Obesity Prevention That Generates Instant and Delayed Gratification Simultaneously
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Setting long term goals and wrestling with delayed gratification are hard things for the modern generation who's so used to instant gratification. But what if there was a Childhood Obesity Prevention strategy that combines both instant and delayed gratification into one package? Would that be interesting to parents and educators working with today's students? I'd hope so.
- New Study Provides Irrefutable Evidence That Excess Weight and Pull Ups Are Inversely Related
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] A new study reveals that there is an inverse relationship between excess weight and one's ability to perform pull ups. That is to say, an increase in one effectively decreases the other. (i.e. more excess weight equals fewer pull ups, and vice versa.) So what does that mean for turning the tide on childhood obesity? Read on and find out.
- Researchers Announce the Discovery of a New Anti-Obesity Pill Especially For Kids
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Researchers for Big Bro Pharmaceuticals, Inc. located in East Des Moines, NJ announced yesterday that they'd developed a new anti-obesity pill called SAEWAN (short for Strong At Everything, Weak At Nothing) especially for kids. Taken twice a week for one full year starting at a young age (ideally in kindergarten) the SAEWAN pill is designed to naturally immunize kids against obesity for life. Read on.
- Of Pull Ups, Childhood Obesity Prevention, and the Future of Democracy in the USA
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Have you ever wondered about the relationship between physical fitness, self reliance, and democracy? Here are a few thoughts on that topic.
- Every Body's Different, Every Body Can Make Regular Progress, and Regular Progress IS Winning!
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] With access to a height adjustable pull up bar and leg assisted pull ups, every kid can learn to physically pull their own weight and to naturally immunize themselves against obesity for a lifetime without resorting to pills, shots, or special diets to do the trick. Check it out.
- The Many Virtues of Infinite Measurability
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Consistent positive feedback is the key to maintaining super high levels of motivation in any field, and that's especially true when it comes to childhood obesity prevention. Here's how you get that job done.
- But Coach, Your Anti-Obesity Strategy Has No Aerobic Component
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Like all new ideas, our new pull ups based strategy has encountered its share of criticisms. One of the most frequent is, "But Coach, your program has no aerobic component. You're not getting anyone's heart rate up into the target heart rate zone and keeping it there for 15 or 20 minutes like the Cooper Clinic has preached about for the better part of 40 years. That means you have an incomplete fitness program."
- So, What About All Those Kids Who Are Already Obese?
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] To date our comments have addressed ONLY the prevention side of the childhood obesity epidemic. But that doesn't mean that we have nothing to say on rehabilitation. It just means that we've chosen to work on the side where the odds of winning are dramatically better because we prevent the poison from ever entering the bloodstream.
- Introducing 181 Kids Who Have Naturally Immunized Themselves Against Obesity For Life!
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] In an age when research studies claim that 20% of American kids are obese by the age of 4; when physicians declare that they'd like to reverse childhood obesity, but they don't know how to do it; when parents are so thoroughly confused by all the conflicting reports that they don't know what to do, there is one physical educator who has some real, documented evidence we should all consider. Check it out.
- One is Never a Statistic
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] The experts paint a bleak picture when it comes to the childhood obesity epidemic, but individual responsibility taking behavior on the part of parents and educators beat the experts and their odds. $696,000,000. Yes that's SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY SIX MILLION DOLLARS that the Feds (this doesn't count state and private sector expenditures) have spent on childhood obesity prevention so far this year, and the year's only half over.
- Proof Positive That Pull Up Performance and Excess Weight Are Inversely Related
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Does the ability to do pull ups really discourage your ability to gain excess weight? This short essay will leave no doubt in your mind. Check it out.
- How Every Gym Teacher Can Combat Childhood Obesity With Almost No Money
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Most public schools lack money today. They have to scramble just to pay teachers and to buy text books, so how can they afford a new tried and tested childhood obesity prevention program? This article is dedicated to showing how any gym teacher worth his salt can implement an incredibly cost effective childhood obesity prevention program for pennies from the spare change drawer.
- Common Sense Takes Documented Bites Out of the Childhood Obesity Epidemic
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] An average gym teacher armed with a boatload of common sense takes on the childhood obesity crisis and walks away a big winner. This is a story that everyone needs to know about.
- How to Organize a Pull Your Own Weight - Childhood Obesity Prevention Program in Any PE Class
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Organizing a successful childhood obesity prevention in any Physical Education class is easy, as long as you know what you're doing. This essay shows readers how to do it.
- Embarrassed When Communicating With Your Kids Over Childhood Obesity?
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Experts say that one of the biggest obstacles in reducing childhood obesity is our inability to talk to kids about obesity without embarrassing and alienating them in the process. With this 10 point strategy, the conversation can be transformed from a negative into a positive. Here's how to do it.
- Prevention Or Cure For Childhood Obesity?
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Despite the old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, advocating childhood obesity prevention has always been a challenge. So what about advocating a cure instead?
- An Open Letter to Masters Students in Exercise Physiology
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] The basic foundation for Operation Pull Your Own Weight - A Radical Solution to Childhood Obesity is so intuitively obvious that academicians have never bothered to put it under the microscope. This open letter is a challenge to the academic community to do that study and to empirically prove or disprove the claim.
- Johnny and Jamal - A Really Strong Story For Kids
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] This was the story that we used to introduce Operation Pull Your Own Weight to students at Jefferson Elementary School in Davenport, IA. They understand it and are inspired when they hear it. Give it a try with your own kids.
- Thin Slices of Progress Fuel the Motivational Flame
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] When it comes to the issue of childhood obesity, the BIG QUESTION is always, "How do you motivate kids to exercise more, eat less/better?" And once you have them in motion, "How do you keep them in motion?" Then to make matters even more challenging I want to answer the question, "How can Operation Pull Your Own Weight even hope to motivate kids by focusing on the one exercise (pull ups) that's almost universally hated by kids around the country?" Read on to discover the surprising answer.
- An Old Coach Offers a Simple Solution to Childhood Obesity
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Anyone who's taught physical education for any length of time will identify with this utterly simple solution to our nation's childhood obesity dilemma. See if this story rings a bell with you.
- Mother Nature Defines Fitness in Functional, Not Cosmetic Terms
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Have you ever wondered how Mother Nature might define physical fitness? Here are some thoughts on that subject.
- Dr Tommy Boone Has Been Pulling His Own Weight For Some Time Now
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] When Tommy Boone was eight years old his dad installed a pull-up bar in the doorway of the bedroom he shared with his brother. For a full year afterwards, Mr. Boone encouraged his sons to develop the ability to do more and more pull-ups. "But after the first year," Tommy said, "pull-ups became a regular habit for both of us. Every time we walked into the bedroom, and every time we walked out, we did a couple of pull-ups, and to this day I'm still relatively strong for my age."
- Physical Efficiency, Fiscal Efficiency, and Childhood Obesity Prevention
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] In the midst of a modern, 21st century American culture that at least celebrates, if not wallows in excess, performance on a pull up bar automatically rewards two things, strength and lightness. That is to say, if you maintain the good stuff (muscle mass) and you reduce the bad stuff (fat), your performance automatically improves. Or, if you maintain the bad stuff and increase the good, your performance automatically improves as well. Check out the rest of the story.
- The Smartest, Simplest, and Cheapest Childhood Obesity Prevention Machine on Planet Earth
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Everything about childhood obesity seems so complicated, so confusing, so overwhelming for many parents (and teachers) until they recognize that there really is one extremely simple, safe, and inexpensive (can I say cheap) solution to the entire convoluted dilemma. Check out this utterly simple solution to a problem that the US Surgeon General has labeled America's # 1 health threat.
- A Simple Childhood Obesity Prevention Strategy That Really Works
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] While it's true that childhood obesity (and related issues) is an extremely complicated, multi-legged monster that's costing American taxpayers over $100 billion annually, it's also true that preventing childhood obesity is quite simple if you know how to push the right buttons. Check it out.
- Competing, Winning, Losing, and Preventing Childhood Obesity
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] When Johnny can honestly say, "I'm a little stronger this week than I was last week, I'm a little stronger this month than I was last month, and I'm a lot stronger this year than last year," Johnny is automatically a slam dunk winner, regardless of what the other kids do! Furthermore, if Johnny cultivates the habit of overcoming himself on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis through his developmental years, he'll fulfill every ounce of his natural potential and have no problem competing conventionally once he becomes an adult. Here's how you can inspire your own Johnny to do precisely that.
- Surveying Physical Educators on Pull Ups and Childhood Obesity Prevention
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] In this admittedly informal and unscientific survey 100 physical education teachers confirm the old gym teacher's intuition that kids who can do pull ups are never obese! Sometimes intuition is a pretty good indicator after all. Check it out.
- Validating Or Invalidating Kids Starting at a Very Young Age
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] You go to school one day to watch your first grader interact with the other kids at recess. You no sooner arrive when the bell rings, and you witness a plethora of pent up personalities sprinting out the door towards the playground.
- Aerobics and the Art of Physically Pulling Your Own Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] The ability to do pull ups serves as a simple, practical, and functional antidote to obesity for anyone who can do them. But by themselves they're certainly not a full blown fitness program. Is that all bad? I think not. Check it out.
- Solving Childhood Obesity From the Top Down, Or From the Bottom Up
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] As a nation we're spending over $120 billion annually trying to correct the system that's designed to make our kids fat. But if you're tired of waiting for the experts to solve the problem from the top down, maybe it's time for parents and educators take the bull by the horns and do what no amount of legislation can ever do - naturally immunize kids against the system.
- No Child Left Obese!
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] In an ideal educational academy in the sky we'd contend that a child's body, their physical presence provides the backbone for all the rest of their educational experiences. It effectively serves as the tangible foundation upon which all the other dimensions of education can be built. To the degree that a child lacks a sound physical presence, it tends to undermine and jeopardize their learning potential. As our first and most fundamental order of business, we'd prevent that possibility from ever happening.
- So, What Happens to Chunky Kindergartners?
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Once an educator begins to seriously consider using leg assisted pull ups as an extremely safe, low cost, and functional antidote to childhood obesity, there are a few questions that inevitably come up. One of them is "What happens to the chunky kindergartners, those kids who show up overweight on the first day of school? Won't they feel totally excluded when introduced to a pull ups routine?" This article answers that frequently asked question.
- An Open Letter to Parents and Educators Who Refuse to Give Up on Childhood Obesity Prevention
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] It's easy for most adults agree with the claim that kids who can do pull ups are never obese. Most have witnessed that during their school years. Furthermore they also agree with the claim that those kids who successfully learn to do pull ups have naturally immunized themselves against obesity for life as long as they maintain the ability, because they intuitively know that people who can do pull ups can't be obese.
- An Open Letter to Senator Tom Harkin Regarding Childhood Obesity Prevention
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] I'm writing to tell you about a low cost strategy/intervention with which kids across America can naturally immunize themselves against obesity for life. But in order for that to happen, kids across America must be introduced to the strategy with which kids can naturally immunize themselves against obesity for life.
- Where's the Big Bold Plan Designed to Eliminate Childhood Obesity?
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Like the economy, without a big, bold, and coherent antidote that we the people can understand and rally behind, millions of our kids will lose the battle with obesity and related problems. So where is the big bold leader with the big bold plan to defeat childhood obesity?
- Walking, Talking, and Immunizing Our Kids Against Obesity For Life
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] It's not so much the failure of our kids, but the failure of our educational system, our school boards, educational administrators and researchers, and physical educators to recognize that if we start them young, before super sizing takes root, and if we take full advantage of the same motivating forces that prompt us all to learn to walk, talk, and to grow in an infinite number of ways, there are very few kids who are unable to learn to do pull ups. And in the process of learning to do pull ups, they'll naturally immunize themselves against obesity for life because kids who can physically pull their own weight are never obese.
- The Operation Pull Your Own Weight Pledge
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] When you make a promise in writing it carries a lot more weight. Here's an opportunity for you to promise yourself to grow a little bit stronger week after week, month after month, all year long...in writing. Please read it over. Think about it. Then sign it, put it on the wall or the refrigerator as a constant reminder that you expect yourself to grow a little bit stronger, week after week, month after month, all year long. Check it out!
- Old Coach Issues a Pull Your Own Weight Challenge to Members of Congress
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] In his inaugural address, President Obama challenged all Americans to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and to get back in the race. From an old coach's perspective you might say we need to dig in and find ways to become a little bit stronger this week than we were last week, a little bit stronger this month than last month, and a lot stronger this year than last year. If we can produce such minor miracles week after week, month after month, all year long, we'll eventually work out way out of the hole into ...
- Jobs, Problem Solving, and Childhood Obesity Prevention
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] So, what is a job anyway if it's not an ongoing set of problems to be solved on behalf of someone who's willing and able to pay you for solving them? In that sense, the more problems we experience, the more job opportunities there are on the horizon, presuming you can find someone to pay you for tackling and resolving those problems. In the best light then, the myriad of problems our nation faces today should be seen as a myriad of opportunities, with the challenge being to identify someone who can and will pay your for solving these problems. Change and opportunity (including won/lost opportunity) inevitably go hand in hand.
- Jobs in the $120 Billion Dollar a Year Childhood Obesity Prevention Industry
[Business:Careers-Employment] According to recent government sources America spends over $120,000,000 (that's Billion with a B) dollars annually on childhood obesity and related issues. That is to say we spend about the same on obesity as we're spending on the Iraq war and we're losing because the problem is getting worse not better. Not only that, we can't pull out of this one even if we wanted to, which means we have to take a stand and fight.
- But What Happens When the Going Finally Gets Tough?
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] A reader recently wrote in and said, "I understand why you start each participant out at a level where they're guaranteed to succeed. I also understand why you use very small increments of progress or change, and restrict the amount of progress each participant is allowed to make in any one workout.
- Growing Younger Week After Week, Month After Month, All Year Long
[Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] When working with kindergartners, the experience of growing a little bit stronger every week, every month, all year long in front of your friends and teacher who celebrate each success with high fives and congratulations, is about all that most of them need to learn to love doing pull ups.
- Knowing What They All Want Can Motivate Your Kids to Immunize Themselves Against Obesity For Life!
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] If you start by asking and answering the question "What do all kids really want" you can use that information to develop a simple formula with which to inspire and motivate your kids to eat better, exercise more, and immunize themselves against obesity for life. Here's what you need to know.
- Obama Takes the First Ever American Presidential Pull Your Own Weight Challenge - And Wins!
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] According to Time Magazine, when aids challenged him to a pull up contest and each proceeded to do two pull ups, Barack Obama proceeded to do three, and in the process he won the first ever American Presidential Pull Your Own Weight Challenge. Interestingly enough taking the American Pull Your Own Weight Challenge seriously is one very simple and natural way to eliminate obesity from your life once and for all.
- Stealing the Football Coach's Spotlight and Refocusing it on Physical Education
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] In most American school systems coaches are also physical education teachers, and physical education teachers are also coaches. Historically speaking most physical educators don't choose to go into the field because of their love for gym class, but because of their love for football, basketball, baseball... sports of some kind.
- The Receptive Prayer
[Self-Improvement:Spirituality] In the 21st century the ability to really relax is often hard to come by. In order to rekindle and re-cultivate the natural ability to relax you can learn the art of emptying yourself of ego in order to allow God to step out of the shadows and weigh in on those issues you're currently wrestling with. Check it out.
- The World is Shaped by Those Who Take Action on Good Ideas
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] So you know a good idea when you see one, right? And Operation Pull Your Own Weight and naturally immunizing kids against obesity for life certainly qualifies as one of those good ideas whose time has come.
- The Democratizing Effects of Immunizing Kids Against Obesity For Life Starting in Kindergarten
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] I have a confession to make. One of the most interesting effects of starting an Operation Pull Your Own Weight childhood obesity prevention project at an early age (K, 1, 2) is the fact that it does almost nothing for naturally athletic kids who are already genetically (or socially, psychologically, economically, etc.) predisposed to being strong, light, and well coordinated.
- The Logistics of Setting Up an Operation Pull Your Own Weight Program
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] In school there are three potential settings for an Operation Pull Your Own Weight program including in the PE class, in the regular classroom, or in an after school, extracurricular setting. Let's check them out.
- A Form Letter For People Who Are Ready to Take Action Against Childhood Obesity Today!
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] You could be a parent of a child who attends a particular school. You could be a teacher at that school. Or you could just be a local citizen or businessperson who's just plain fed up with the total void when it comes to taking any action against the problem of childhood obesity.
- Strong at Everything, Weak at Nothing!
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] I confess, I want to be strong (i.e. independent, self-reliant, resilient) at everything and weak at nothing. And furthermore I confess that I've never met another human being who wants to be weak at anything. In other words, every person I've ever known wants to be strong (1) at everything and weak at nothing. There are no exceptions to this rule.
- Functional Performance Instead of Underwater Weighing, Electronic Impedance, Or Skin Calipers
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] The car is fully packed and the family is ready for vacation. And when I say fully packed, I mean that 800 pounds of luggage is stuffed into the trunk, as well as in and around the kids in the back seat. You can hardly see out of the rear view mirror because you've packed so much into this poor car.
- Return on Investment, Compound Interest, and Physical Fitness
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] If you look at motivating kids in terms of giving them a predictable return on their investments of time, energy, and self image, the solution to childhood obesity suddenly becomes clear. Check it out.
- Childhood Obesity - A Multi Headed Monster That Can't Be Slain by One Simple Sword?
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Most experts claim that the childhood obesity epidemic is a multi-headed monster that requires a complex solution in order to kill it. But a pair of open eyes and a little common sense is about all you really need to see that this claim is little more than a weak excuse for failing to solve the problem.
- My Why - An Old Coach's Brief Autobiography
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] In order to understand anyone's work completely, you have to know what motivates and drives them to do what they've done. Here's my answer to those who question what I have done.
- Great Local Publicity With YouTube TV
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Childhood Obesity Prevention is all abut motivating kids to eat better and less, and exercise more. And as we've said on several previous occasions, small but regular increments of progress serve as the keys to keeping the motivational flame burning brightly over time, resulting in relentless persistence, which eventually leads to winning.
- An Ode to Relentless Persistence - Oh Yes We Can
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Barack Obama is a walking, talking, and living example of relentless persistence, of beating all odds, and of practicing his mantra YES WE CAN. In this article you can learn how it all came about.
- Conventional Pull Ups VS Leg Assisted Pull Ups
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Most people today lack the ability to perform conventional pull ups due to excess body weight and lack of upper body pulling strength. But if you try leg assisted pull ups, you'll be doing one of the most comprehensive exercises on planet earth. Add leg assisted dips and you cover 90% of your muscles.
- Childhood Obesity Prevention Studies Set in a New Context
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] We've spent billions of dollars on trying to find an antidote to childhood obesity, but so far all we have come up with is that kids must eat less and exercise more. Didn't we know that thirty years ago? This article takes some of the recent studies and placed them in a different context in order to demonstrate that there really is a practical solution to childhood obesity, if we'd only take action now.
- How the Obama Administration Can Naturally Eliminate Childhood Obesity in One Decade Or Less
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] It's easy to help kindergartners learn how to do pull ups, and in the process to help them naturally immunize themselves against obesity for life by maintaining the ability to do pull ups. Yes, as most of us already know, kids who can do pull ups are never obese.
- Enlightened Self Interest is Built on a Foundation of Strong Kids!
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] In one sense, the philosophical centerpiece a childhood obesity prevention strategy is a concept known as "Enlightened Self Interest." This concept normally suggests that adults have a moral obligation to become as strong as they can, in as many ways as they can, in order to become as self sufficient as they can, and to minimize the odds of becoming dependent on others. Now you can see how enlightened self interest evolves from a kid's perspective.
- Coach, I Can't Do Pull Ups - What Now?
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Starting young, very few kids are unable to learn to do pull ups and to immunize themselves against obesity for life. But there are exceptions to every rule. So what happens if you run into one of those lone exceptions to the rule? Here are some thoughts on that question.
- Strong Table, Weak Table - A Nutritional Experiment You Can Try With Your Kids
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Getting your kids to eat right may not be all that difficult after all. Check out the Strong Table, Weak Table strategy and allow the kids to do it all by themselves.
- How to Motivate Kids to Take Action and to Slay the Childhood Obesity Monster Once and For All
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] The three most important factors in childhood obesity prevention are motivation, motivation, and motivation. This essay shows you how to light a motivational fire under YOUR KIDs, moving them to naturally immunize themselves against obesity for life.
- Functional Fitness and Functional Beauty
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Fitness today is too often dominated by a cosmetic oriented Mary Kay mentality that misses out completely on Mother Nature's own functional beauty that can't be purchased at the cosmetic counter or in a can of muscle builder's juice no matter what they throw into it. I suggest that we now explore the relationship between function and beauty.
- The 4 Minute Per Week, Family Based, Childhood Obesity Prevention Prescription
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Seen in the right light, fitness habits are much like the magic of compound interest in the bank. In both cases small but regular contributions tend to accumulate over time and turn into something large and significant in the lives of those who've had the discipline to implement the strategy. Check it out.
- Childhood Obesity Prevention and Functional Performance Body Composition Testing
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] In the field of childhood obesity prevention, complications abound, expenses expand, and together they undermine the efforts of most school's to win that extremely crucial war. Here's one thing physical educators can do to simplify things for everyone involved.
- A Simple, Cost Effective Childhood Obesity Prevention Strategy For Any School District in the US
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] With the following information in hand any school district in the U.S. can wage and document a successful war on childhood obesity starting in September of 2008. And if they need a little incentive to do so, here's a budget that shows how any state can cost effectively immunize kids against obesity for life, if they only choose to do so.
- An Open Letter to Kids Who Want to Be Strong at Everything and Weak at Nothing
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] In real estate it's always location, location, and location. In life it's motivation, motivation, and motivation, that leads to relentless persistence, persistence, and persistence. Check it out.
- The Most Important Lesson a Kid Can Ever Learn is Best Taught Physically
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] In life there's really no substitute for persistence. If you learn at an early age to never, never, never give up (per Sir Winston Churchill), you're destined to succeed. But how do you embed that priceless lesson into your son, daughter, or your student's DNA? Read on and you'll learn how.
- Selling a Simple Solution to Childhood Obesity That Works For Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic Too
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Here's the sale I'm trying to make. I'm trying to convince parents and educators that, despite a consistent chorus to the contrary, a SIMPLE solution to childhood obesity is hiding in plain sight if we'd just open our eyes. Battle ground number one then in this sale is the colossal consensus created by the constant barrage of abstract studies (backed by billions of bureaucratic bucks and their accomplices in the mainstream media) that portray childhood obesity as complicated and confusing instead of simple and actionable.
- What Do You Expect Kids to Learn When They Participate in Operation Pull Your Own Weight?
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] "So Coach," they challenged, "what do you expect a student to learn when they participate in Operation Pull Your Own Weight?" That's a question I've heard repeatedly over the years, and as you might imagine, there are several answers to it.
- Childhood Obesity Prevention - Complex and Confusing VS Simple and Solvable
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] The American Society of Exercise Physiologists contend that childhood obesity prevention is not nearly as complex and confusing as conventional authorities would have us believe. And if there's an utterly simple, actionable solution on the horizon, why would conventional authorities ignore it? Read on and find out.
- Boiling Childhood Obesity Prevention Down Into One Simple, Actionable Solution
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Show me 10 kids who can do pull ups and I'll show you 10 kids who are not obese. And if they know how to approach it right, almost any kid can learn to do pull ups and immunize themselves against obesity for life. Check it out.
- Dari Spotten Set The Bar High For Her Students
[Reference-and-Education] It was Lincoln who said "In life you pretty much get what you expect." In the classroom the same holds true as one elementary school teacher demonstrates.
- My Motivation - An Ode To Teaching
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Real teaching is really fun and fulfilling. Here's how one real teacher feels about real teaching.
- The World's Most Famous Formula, E = MC2, And Childhood Obesity Prevention
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] If we can't simplify the childhood obesity prevention message, the kids will never hear it. Here are some thoughts on simplification.
- A Simple Strategy For Physical Educators Interested In Preventing Childhood Obesity
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Physical Educators are in the unique position of being able to have a very positive impact on the problem of childhood obesity, create lots of great press on behalf of their respective school districts, and shore up their job security at the same time. It's actually pretty simple if you know how. Read on.
- Childhood Obesity Prevention and the Virtues of Being Straight Forward and Concrete With Kids
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] So, what actions can we take to turn the tide on childhood obesity in our own respective communities? The bottom line is that kids must exercise more and eat less/better. But how much more exercise, and how much less/better should they eat?
- The Childhood Obesity Epidemic - It's More Of A Marketing Problem Than Anything Else
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Everyone knows that the bottom line in childhood obesity prevention is to get kids to exercise more and eat less/better. But very few people know how to package, present, and deliver that message in a form that kids will embrace, and that will actually inspire them to exercise more and eat less. But if we asked the right questions, we might even come up with some legitimate answers. Check it out.
- Four Misinterpretations of Operation Pull Your Own Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] One common misinterpretation of Operation Pull Your Own Weight is that we claim "conventional pull ups are the best exercise for kids who want to lose weight." Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact overweight kids are generally unable to do pull ups, and they burn very few calories when compared to aerobic exercises like walking, running, biking, or swimming.
- Making Pull Ups A Social Affair
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Succeeding publicly, in front of their friends, is the biggest motivator in the world for kids. Here's how it works.
- The RWJF Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative & the First $100 Million
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] As a nation we're spending multi millions if not billions to resolve the childhood obesity epidemic, but are we getting anything other than lip service in return for the expenditure. Read on and find out.
- Of Abs and Legs - A Relationship You Can't Afford to Miss
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] When people think of flattening their stomach they usually think of sit-ups or crunches. But in reality, the most important ab-flattening exercises you can do involve the legs and hips. Here's why.
- A Childhood Obesity Prevention McStrategy for 21st Century McParents
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] "How can I allow my kids to play some of their video games, watch some of their TV shows, and have some of those sugary, fat laden foods yet prevent them blowing up like a balloon?" That's the question posed and answered by this highly practical article. Read on.
- Childhood Obesity Prevention Laced with Personal Responsibility Taking Behavior
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Operation Pull Your Own Weight (OPYOW) is a practical childhood obesity prevention strategy that's laced with a heavy dose of personal responsibility taking behavior. OPYOW is based on the common sense observation that kids who can do pull ups are never obese. Furthermore, given access to a height adjustable pull up bar and a technique called leg assisted pull ups (jumping and pulling up at the same time) almost all kids can learn to do pull ups in a predictable amount of time and immunize themselves against obesity for life as long as they maintain the ability. Check it out.
- Of Attitudes and Altitudes, Compelling and Contagious
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Legitimate enthusiasm and excitement over the opportunities in the present moment are qualities that are not only compelling, but contagious. I mean people like to be around others who are genuinely caught up in the moment, who are doing things that matter, that count, that make a difference. But in reality it's not so much about WHAT you're doing, as it is about HOW you're doing it.
- The Oprah Challenge - Can You Help Oprah Learn To Do Pull Ups and Immunize Her Against Obesity?
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] I received an email recently from a reader who's an Oprah fan. It read, "I'm an avid Oprah fan who watchers her show daily. But she's still a long ways from trim."
- Just Like Your Kids, Rufus is a Natural Born Runner
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] My dog Rufus loves to run. He's a snow white, 27 lb. Jack Russell Terrier who's so full of energy that he's hard to appreciate without seeing him in action.
- While Experts Confuse, Here's a Common Sense Strategy You Can Take to the Bank
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] We're spending billions in an effort to head off childhood obesity and coming up empty handed at every turn. If you're tired of waiting for the experts to come up with a viable solution, and you're ready to take action right now, here's a simple strategy you can take to the bank.
- Pablo - The Little Boy Who Didn't Know He Couldn't, Yet
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] Pablo was a roaring success until he went to school and was systematically taught that he was incapable of succeeding. This is a story that every parent should read before sending their kids off to kindergarten.
- Super Bodies, Pull Ups, Mother Nature, and Obesity Prevention
[Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Any super body who can bend steel with his bare hands and jump tall buildings in a single bound can certainly do pull ups. Wouldn't you agree? On the other hand, odds are anybody who's unable to do pull ups, will probably have a pretty hard time with the bare hands steel bending and tall building jumping as well.
- No You Can't, Oh Yes I Can - Teaching Kids to Stand Up to a Challenge
[Home-and-Family:Parenting] If you know your kids well enough here's a little game you can play with them while you're putting them through their Operation Pull Your Own Weight paces. I call it the No you can't, Oh yes I can game, and here's how it goes.
- Motivating Kids by Engaging Them in Public Success
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Motivation is inevitably the center piece of any kids fitness/obesity prevention program including Operation Pull Your Own Weight. Here's how OPYOW fuels a kid's motivational fire and keeps it burning white hot all year long.
- A New Year's Resolution Known as FATS
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Have you ever heard of a functional acid test strategy (FATS) when it comes to winning the battle of the bulge. This is a very practical way to approach the problem and come out a winner.
- Operation Pull Your Own Weight and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Kids
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] When I coordinated the Pull Your Own Weight program at Jefferson Elementary School in Davenport, IA, the kids all had a specific goal, along with seven specific habits that helped kids reach their goal, and one final challenge. Anyone aiming to successfully duplicate this program should be made aware of these fundamentals of OPYOW. So here's the goal, along with the seven habits, and the final challenge of Operation Pull Your Own Weight.
- The Seven Basic Presumptions of Operation Pull Your Own Weight
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] There were seven basic presumptions upon which OPYOW was built, and anyone attempting to duplicate the program should be aware of them. Here are the seven fundamental presumptions of Operation Pull Your Own Weight.
- An Old Coach Petitions the Powerful Over the Polio of Our Age
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] The solution to childhood obesity is as simple as ABC says one old coach. And he's challenging the rich and the powerful to prove him wring.
- So Coach, What Exactly Did You Prove?
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Proof is always an important part of any endeavor, and Operation Pull Your Own Weight is no exception to the rule. In this article we tackle the issue of what is meant by the claim that OPYOW has been field tested and proven to work.
- Selling Cool, and Winning the War on Childhood Obesity One Child at a Time
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] If it isn't cool the kids won't cooperate. And if the kids refuse to cooperate there is no way to stem the tide of childhood obesity. So here's how to make the solution cool so that kids will buy in.
- Documented Results - The Missing Ingredient in Childhood Obesity Prevention
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] Without documented results no childhood obesity is worth it's salt. But there's one program that can document its results and successes every step of the way. Not only that, but it's affordable too.
- Operation Pull Your Own Weight As a Philosophy of Education
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] Various people have suggested that OPYOW is much more than just an obesity prevention strategy. In this article we explore OPYOW as a full blown, user friendly, philosophy of education.
- An Open Letter to Physical Educators - A Golden Opportunity Is Knockin'
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] With the childhood obesity crisis growing by leaps and bounds Physical Educators have a golden opportunity to become Educational MVP's...if they know about Operation Pull Your Own Weight.
- Childhood Obesity and Personal Responsibility Taking Behavior
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] This article suggests that personal responsibility taking behavior must become a strong component of any successful antidote to the childhood obesity epidemic in this nation, and it discusses one successful strategy that's been used to accomplish that goal.
- A Simple, Home Made Childhood Obesity Prevention Machine That Really Works
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] You don't have to be wealthy or have a degree in order to naturally immunize your kids against obesity for a lifetime without shots, pills, or special diets. Here's a simple, inexpensive machine that any parent can have in the home that will help their kids immensely.
- Two Childhood Obesity Prevention Programs That Have Actually Been Proven to Work
[Health-and-Fitness:Childhood-Obesity-Prevention] In September of this year (2006) The Institute of Medicine released a report that documents our nation's failure to address the childhood obesity epidemic. In the wake of that report, it's important to get a focus on at least two programs that have been proven to work. Check them out and see if either one of them fill your needs.
- The Responsibility Belongs To You - Nobody Else Can Do It For You
[Health-and-Fitness:Obesity] In reading, writing, and arithmetic kids may occasionally get away with getting someone else to do their homework. But a height adjustable pull up bar knows if you've done the work, it knows if you're eating right, getting enough rest, and it rewards kids who take responsibility for their own actions.
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