Fun for Fitness

Here's a new article from the Academy of PLAY. This one's about Fun and Fitness. Further testimony to the healing power of fun.

If you are a normal person like me, who wants to be healthier, but doesn't--for some strange reason--like fatigue and pain, thank your favorite deity that it doesn't need to BE like that!

How do healthy kids manage to have so much energy and stay so fit? They certainly don't have much patience for painful, repetitive activities. And it's no more natural for them to be locked in a chair for hours than it ought to be for us grownups.

They get out and PLAY! Active, fun, let's go exploring, what happens if I do this, that looks like something I can climb, type PLAY! They get up in the morning looking forward to it, they find all sorts of inventive ways to do it, and they do it every single chance they get!