book introduction
As stated on the Homepage of this website, Playground Exercises For Parents (PE4P) book covers a diversity of exercises within most common playgrounds for small children, but is not intended to compete, replace, or to be better than what can be provided within any professional gym or fitness club/center environment for adults. Most parents want to improve their health and fitness, while others simply want to maintain their current optimal physical condition without getting much worse with age. This book is designed for such adults who do not have enough time to exercise, and/or cannot afford a local professional fitness center membership, but are spending a lot of free time at playgrounds watching children, such as parents, relatives, and/or babysitters.
Exercise may not be a higher priority than taking our children to a playground, but to improve time management many of us can plan to do both at the same time. There are many places in a playground to do diverse, basic, and similar types of exercises that most of us need regularly, as this booklet shows with pictures and text for each common playground area. For example, there are many places and ways to do push-ups, triceps dips, step-ups, and even plyometric power & cardiorespiratory challenging activities. It is important to frequently challenge the strength conditioning of our arms, legs, core, and complete cardiorespiratory system. While parents are watching their kids in any playground, there should not be any frequent excuse to not having fun, perform regular needed exercises, while bonding with our children on the playgrounds too.
NOT ALL exercises in this book and website are for everyone, with some too easy and basic for some, while other exercises may be too advanced and easily cause injuries for others. The first chapter is dedicated to Safety Tips and Injury Prevention information, but regardless, all exercises, motivation, and information provided on this website and book do NOT accept any liability or responsibility for any injuries or deaths that may occur while performing anything related to this website and book. All who view, learn, and practice anything provided within this website and PE4P book assume all risks and results from the use, non-use, or misuse of information and exercises provided within this website, PE4P hardcover book, and e-book.
Nevertheless, after viewing this whole website, and e-book for sale, hopefully everyone may learn more, become more motivated, and/or dedicated to exercise more often to improve health, fitness, life, longevity, and bonding with your children on the playground too.
Do Not Monopolize Playgrounds For Adult Exercise
This book does NOT encourage adults to monopolize any playground, or utilize the playground equipment while any children may want to utilize the desired areas at the same time, for the sole purpose of performing desired exercises that are offered in this book. We must remember that the playgrounds are made for the children primarily, and that we should allow them to maintain the higher priority. When other parents express an interest to do the same exercises or occupy the same playground spaces for any reason, we should be willing to share and encourage others as well.
However, this PE4P e-book and website certainly does offer parents diverse exercises that are interactive with their children, so that the children still maintain the higher priority to utilize each playground equipment and area as desired. With intelligent and fun exercise interaction, parents can still get quality exercise in busy playground environments and bond further with their children too, as another bonus, while no adults are "hogging" the playground equipment to themselves. This simply explains what we want this e-book and website to encourage, educate, and promote.
Nevertheless, parents can still find vacant playground materials or areas to get important exercise while overseeing their children playing, but sometimes we need to find more vacant times and/or days to take our children to certain popular local playgrounds. As with everything, we simply need to make the time to fulfill our goals and interests, as well as make all our decisions based upon our priorities. Getting exercise and/or taking our children to a playground may not be a high priority when we are too busy to do both, but with better time management, many of us can exercise more often while with our children and improve our health, fitness, life, and family relationships as a result.
Furthermore, there are many places in a playground to do the same types of exercises, as this e-book explains with pictures and text for each common playground equipment area. For example, there are many places and ways to do push-ups, triceps dips, step-ups, and even plyometric power activities.
It is very important to frequently challenge the strength conditioning of our arms, legs, and core. While parents are watching their kids in most playgrounds, there should be no frequent excuse for not having fun and performing needed exercises too. As this website and e-book gains more feedback and requests, we would like to add more activities and update our website periodically as needed.
Safety Tips, Injury Prevention, & Diversity
Again, PE4P-2 devotes the first chapter to safety tips and injury prevention. Dysfunctional movement patterns and accumulative cycle patterns are leading causes to injuries and necessary surgeries; therefore, it is important to make sure that each exercise and daily physical activity is performed with the best of form, technique, and biomechanical movement patterns. Some goals and activities are safely performed 4-6 days per week, at most, while others should be limited to 1-2 days per week, which also relates to the amount of intensity and fatigue that is experienced. PE4P-2 details all this to the best as possible, but remains open for questions and comments, to always improve as possible too.
More activities and updates to this website should be done periodically as needed. Based upon more interest and requests, this supportive website may provide access to playground exercise video demonstrations, as well as common questions and answers.
Hopefully you will enjoy this book, learn from it, be influenced to do more than you have been, improve your physical and emotional health, as well as possibly build a stronger relationship with your children. In other words, the desire for PE4P-2 is to become a wise investment into your future, as well as your children and anyone else who may benefit from everything that there is to offer.