My boys

Ok so as I stated earlier my middle son Logan, was beginning a ride down the overweight road too, but my oldest son Zac was sleeping his summer away. After I started running I suggested he should start running also. It began as an "ok dad" kind of thing, Logan went with him sometimes but couldn't keep up so he stopped. Zac kept right on running. He was enjoying it. He was impressed with his accomplishments.

This is his first year of high school so we got him on the Cross Country team. His starting time was not great but by the end of the season it got much better.
Ok so now he decides to run winter track.... Awesome. He is running distance, his CC coach is his distance coach, even better. While all this is going on, I suggest to Zac that he visits the gym with me, he loved it and we joined him up on the spot. We are on the elliptical every day, lifting, taking classes he's liking the "getting ripped" feeling.

So I go to a meet and watch him compete. By no means the fastest and most surely not the slowest. It felt good afterwards when the coach asked what he was doing differently. Zac had gone from a like a 7:45 mile to a 6 minute mile. The change was working on him too.

I had discussions with Logan as to what he wanted to do, of course as most 10yr old boys, he wanted to take Karate. Ok, let's give it a whirl. We signed up for a 1 month introductory class, got his uniform, felt good for the first couple of classes then completely lost interest......hmmm what gives? So we ditch the karate.

My next question for him was what sport do you really want to play.... FOOTBALL. Ok. I know he can throw, been the receiver many, many times, can catch pretty well too.... But he is slower than molasses. Lol. He knows this too. What to do, what to do? Ah ha!!!! The gym offers Parisi speed school for kids (http://www.parisischool.com/trainerfinder/websites/60063/otac/index.html). Perfect, we go to the open house they test him. He likes it. He wants to join, heck yeah, join him up!!!! Now there's 3 of us going to the gym. Zac and I have adjusted our workout schedule to revolve around Logan's classes. He is loving it and is getting much better. Gets up every Saturday morning to go too.

The little guy, Caleb goes to the gym with us and goes into kid care where he gets to play "dance 2" on the Wii. Sometimes he comes out of there sweatier than I get after working out. He has to wait until next January to start Parisi.

So here they are working out and I am trying to explain nutrition to them so they can understand the benefits of a healthy diet. But one step at a time..... Let the changes continue.