Children should be given many opportunities to play, run, bike, and participate in sports, preferably on a daily basis. Encourage your child to build strength, flexibility and aerobic capacity (for example, through running).
Children generally shouldn't be expected to exercise in the routine, formal way adults do (such as walking three miles every day or lifting weights). In fact, they should not lift heavy weights at all prior to puberty , since significant damage to growing bones and tendons can occur.
