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Obesity and being more active

TheCatWoman

I see theres another attempt at getting children more active, but promoting more sport.

Why does it always have to be sport, why not dance, martial arts or walking and spending time in nature?

I know lots of you like sport, but lots of people don't and maybe thats why theres a element that don't engage, maybe they find the competitive stuff to challenging or threatening, maybe it's just not their bodies "language"?

I do think bodies have prefered forms of movement and that we should be encouraging people to find theirs and support them doing it, rather than have "team sport" as the automatic fall back position, it's so unimaginative too, maybe some people need imagination in movement, or a musical element, so dance might be better for them.

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    Why does it always have to be sport

    I think it is because this has the best result for the most number of people.

    There will always be outliers in the groups that don't like group activities for any manner of reasons such as you mention, buy if you try to herd this minority towards dance then you will have some who don't like the music chosen, or the teacher, or the fact it is a group event, or that you typically need a partner etc - there will always be some who will be dissatisfied.

    I think it much more important to teach people to take agency for their own wellbeing - to find solutions that work for their own circumstances, abilities and interests and to be creative in finding ways to make it interesting.

    There seems to be a lot of people who wait for the "system" to provide solutions for them rather than go about helping themselves and changing this mindset seems key to me.

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  • TheCatWoman said:
    Why does it always have to be sport

    I think it is because this has the best result for the most number of people.

    There will always be outliers in the groups that don't like group activities for any manner of reasons such as you mention, buy if you try to herd this minority towards dance then you will have some who don't like the music chosen, or the teacher, or the fact it is a group event, or that you typically need a partner etc - there will always be some who will be dissatisfied.

    I think it much more important to teach people to take agency for their own wellbeing - to find solutions that work for their own circumstances, abilities and interests and to be creative in finding ways to make it interesting.

    There seems to be a lot of people who wait for the "system" to provide solutions for them rather than go about helping themselves and changing this mindset seems key to me.

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