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your kids catch them. Play tag.”

Not surprisingly, young people move more when outdoors. In a 2019 study of almost 6,500 children in 12 nations, any hour spent outside resulted in more physical activity than comparable time indoors.

It also can be done with little or no equipment. “Body weight training is a great form of resistance exercise,” Phillips said.

For a brief, childfriendly body weight workout, try several pushups, followed by some “mountain climbers” — with the young people on all fours, kicking first one leg and then the other behind them, as if scaling a steep slope — and 30 seconds or so of “Superman,” meaning children lie on their stomachs on the floor and lift and hold their arms and legs, as if whooshing through the air. they are failing” and children and teenagers resentful.

Instead, reframe physical activity as a respite from the demands and anxieties of the pandemic, she said. “Parents need recess, too.” So, for your sake and theirs, get up when you can and hop or shimmy with your youngsters. Or download the adventure app “Zombies, Run!,” and add bloodcurdling frisson to an allfamily after-school jog.

And know that having the time, space and opportunity to exercise during the shelter-at-home edicts are privileges not available to everyone, every day. If you cannot break away from Zoom conferences for a dance-off, relax, Juutinen Finni said, and aim for the more-modest goal of getting your offspring up off the couch every hour. Standing up, by itself, “provides a healthy stimulus to the leg muscles in children,” she said, and lifts some of the weight from busy parents’ shoulders.