Exercises for a 9 year old

burger114 · 2020-09-21T12:24:27+00:00

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DEAagent1515 · 2020-09-21T11:45:08+00:00

Lol. Play a sport with him. He won’t be interested in “exercising”. He will be interested in playing games

Adorable_FecalSpray · 2020-09-21T16:13:12+00:00

First of all good on you for looking out for your little brother and helping him improve in this area!

Make it fun and exciting, as some others have already said.

Parkour or free-running, all sorts of tag type games, other types of running games for the HIIT and cardio stuff. Play chase around a playground, climbing up and down and through the playground itself. You chase him, let him chase you. Pretend one of you is a zombie, if he likes zombie type video games. Even better if he has some friends that can tag along.

Body weight exercises. Maybe even loosely follow the Convict Conditioning program, to allow him to start on the easier levels and work his way up.

I don’t think it would kill him or damage him to introduce him to weight lifting. But I would keep the weights super lightweight, talking 2-5lbs for dumbbells and 10-20 if working with barbells. Maybe it would be a good idea to tell him you will show him how to lift weights properly if he can “graduate” from the Convict Conditioning program. Also maybe use a different name for that, like “Warrior Conditioning” or whatever. Don’t want to introduce him too soon to convict stuff. ;P

wrypity · 2020-09-21T18:43:32+00:00

he can totally lift weights if he wants. All exercise at that age must be done under the paradigm of play.

sasakuowo · 2020-09-21T13:39:25+00:00

push ups make it a game to see how many he can do in a day. And tell him you’re gonna play the game with him, but obviously you should limit how many you do so you two are sorta even, but still beat him by a bit. It’ll keep him motivated to do more the next day bro

Title	Exercises for a 9 year old
Author	burger114
Upvotes	1
Comments	10
Date	September 21, 2020 11:36 AM UTC (5 years ago)
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