Getting and staying in shape is important for you – but your workouts may be more important for your family. The reason: your family is inexorably drawn to follow your fitness example – for good or bad. How you manage your personal fitness and nutrition has a ripple effect that spreads across your entire family.
Your personal ripple effect may be one of the most powerful forces shaping your family’s mental and physical future. Consider the following:
We are products of our environment. We gravitate toward what we are repeatedly exposed to. It’s a simple matter of repetition. The more we see, hear, use, or eat something the more it becomes ingrained in our psyche. In fact, social scientists believe environmental repetition may have an effect on gene expression and can literally change your biochemistry.
The power of suggestion is strong. The power of repeated suggestion is practically unstoppable. So if youre making poor fitness and nutrition choices at any age, its likely your family will be making the same choices shortly.
When Junior sees Dad parked in front of the tube and digging into a bag of chips, it’s hard to...