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...opinion counts because Scotti is 12. The weight machines he pushes are mini-size, designed especially for the Children's Health & Executive Club (CHEC), a kids-only gym in Chicago. (The "executive" membership is for those who stay to do homework for two hours after the daily supervised two-hour physical routine.) "Schools have cut back on physical-education classes," says Sherry Drake, the owner of CHEC, which now has two other franchises. "Both the parents and the kids, some of whom are heavy and some of whom just want to move around, are looking for an outlet...
Children sweating it out on stationary bikes and hip abductors may seem counterintuitive, even unsafe, to earlier generations brought up on neighborhood kickball games. Yet in recent years, pediatricians have dismissed the old idea that weight training could stunt growth by harming areas within young bones that are still developing. Indeed, in 2001 the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a paper outlining the benefits of such activity when performed properly (see box). And so with childhood obesity at all-time highs, rising parent concerns about letting their kids play unattended and a growing desire by athletic teenagers to train...
Parents are discovering that health clubs also offer an easy and enjoyable way to spend time with their soon-to-be-independent teens. Larry Sernick's daughter Rebecca asked him to teach her how to work out three years ago to combat a weight gain that was interfering with her performance on her softball team. "I was thrilled," he says. "Both for myself, because I'd have somebody to work out with, and as a father." Though the athletic Rebecca, now 16, has since shed 40 lbs. and met her fitness goals, neither father nor daughter has any plan...
...need to take the weight and place it where it belongs,” he said...
...weight of the world on our shoulders because we knew we were cutting the nets down tonight,” said Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith...