As adults we tend to bemoan the sedentary and screen dominated life that children increasingly lead nowadays but anyone who is around young children knows they love to copy and mimic us; by encouraging them early in life to join us in exercise be it bike riding, running about the woods or doing some yoga or Pilates at home, we are hopefully setting them on a life long track of exercise and sports.
At home and in my Fitness Pilates classes with parents and children, (aka Mums and Tots) I sometimes use 'yoga cards' with cute illustrations of animals for poses that they can do easily and also often make the appropriate animal noise for! Great for cognitive development as well as social and physical benefits. See my instagram feed for more ideas
