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The Action for Healthy Kids

Children are seeing dramatic increases in their overweight and obesity rates. The Action for Healthy Kids is trying to combat this problem by encouraging physical activity in schools and teaching about nutrition and eating healthy. Their website offers many online resources, but you can also search for specific programs in your state and how to get involved.

Do it Yourself Workout

DIY Workout is an organization that is trying to promote physical fitness and well-being by encouraging activity and providing free tools. They provide multiple resources, such as free online tracking for workouts and nutrition intake, ways to assess your progress, and generating personal workouts.

MyFit

MyFit is an online tool that offers many resources to help tone up your body and increase your overall health. They offer forums where you can ask questions, diet suggestions, detailed examples of exercise moves, and health quizzes that allow you to see what you learned.

National Strength and Conditioning Association

The National Strength and Conditioning Association is a national organization that is promoting health through toning muscles and increasing physical strength. Their website offers free videos and podcasts that show the latest techniques. They have articles on the benefits of strength and conditioning training, as well as methods to prevent strain and injury.

Lifelong Fitness Alliance

The Lifelong Fitness Alliance is an organization dedicated to people age 50 and over. This organization supports staying active through all ages, even as people get older by just continuing to move. Their website offers resources such as health information for seniors, a calendar of events, information on finding groups to participate with, and ways to get involved or volunteer.

Health

Health is a magazine that offers many free online articles regarding physical health (nutrition and exercise) and mental health (relaxation). Their articles provide information, techniques, and even tools to promote better overall health.

President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports

The President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports provides information on The President’s Challenge, news and journal articles about health, and resources about how to get involved. The website also provides a long list of other organizations that are involved and how to play a part.

National Center of Physical Activity and Disability

The National Center of Physical Activity and Disability is focused on providing exercises that even those with disabilities could participate in. There are also current news articles and findings of related research that they make available to those people that may have a disability.

President’s Challenge

This website is related to the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, but provides information and resources for kids, teens, adults, and seniors on getting active, staying active, and earning Presidential awards at the same time.

Shape Up America

Shape Up America is an organization that is trying to bring awareness to the issue of obesity in the USA. There website offers information on health management through physical activity and eating healthy. Through these two things, one can not only maintain and improve health, but also have a greater quality of life.