You lift weights to be strong and fit — and now your kid wants to do it, too. Is that safe? Probably — but, as with much in parenting, it depends. With proper supervision, children as young as 7 or 8 ...

Let's connect the dots. There is not a lot of hard data yet on the rise in children's weight during the last year, but according to NPR, doctors across the country are reporting signs of worrisome ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Essentially, from the 1970s to the ’90s, there was a huge increase in the number of kids who are considered to have obesity … too ...

A broomstick for balance exercises. Soup cans for biceps curls and shoulder presses. Bottles of laundry detergent for dead lifts and bent over rows. Twin Cities personal trainer Amy Verby has used ...