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...Walk This Way There is no better way to begin any fitness program than by walking. You already do it, so just do more of it. No matter where kids live--in cities, suburbs or small towns--there are opportunities to walk. Find places to stride, like a mall, and stairs to climb, and get friends to join...
...jumping jacks or push-ups, who can dribble a basketball the fastest or who can hop 100 yards on one leg. Start slow but build up, and be creative: use a pedometer to track steps and miles, and see who can be the first to "climb" Mount Everest and "walk" across your state...
...Start Young Get kids moving with games of tag or hide-and-seek. And for tinier tots? Easy, says Dr. Edward Laskowski, co-director of Sports Medicine at Mayo Clinic. Ask them to run like a gorilla, walk like a spider, hop like a bunny or stretch like a cat. Just try to get them to stop...
Flights feel much shorter when you're working them, especially since you get to walk around and drink free cocktails. As a passenger, I used to spend my flight ignoring the flight attendants' seat-belt speech and wondering if they had been hot in their 20s; as a flight attendant, I could gossip about passengers and compare restaurants around the world with my co-workers. No one was going to knock on our lavatory door if we didn't want them...
...actually not free. Although places like Copenhagen, Lyons and Barcelona are big on bike-sharing, the City of Lights boasts the crème de la crème, with 20,600 bikes and about 1,450 stations--four times the number of Parisian metro stops. It's hard to walk more than two blocks without running into a bike rack, which helps explain why the program has already yielded a 5% drop in car traffic. Paris has also removed lots of parking spots to make way for bike stations...