For a long time, strength training was something that most women did not do. But, fortunately, things have changed, and now more and more women choose strength training as their way of exercising.
These are just some of the girls of Smart Fit Girls. (Source: Credit: Ken Scar) 5. Smart Fit Girls
Dr. Chrissy Chard and Dr. Kellie Walters found a problem: there are few resources to help young girls manage self-esteem and body image problems. More importantly, adolescent girls have little chance to actively participate in sports activities.
Of course, there are some sports, but those competitions are getting more and more intense, and the girls are eliminated from the seventh-grade basketball team. "If we are working hard, Chard said: "In order to build a lifelong love of sports, getting promoted in the seventh grade is not a useful way.
Therefore, Chard and Walters launched the Smart Fit Girls in Fort Collins, Colorado in 2013. The fall and spring semester offers a 10-week after-school program. Girls meet twice a week and spend half of the time. Participate in sports (mainly resistance training), and the other half discuss topics such as bullying, Photoshop and health. This is also an intensive one-week summer camp.
"Strength training is an empowering form of physical activity. It all depends on what your body can do and how strong it is, not what you look like, "Chad said." Our goal is to help girls feel that they can take up space and have their own str, whether internal or external. . "
It is working. A girl said: "I will look at myself in the mirror all summer, 'Why should I look like this? 'But after coming to Smart Fit Girls, I can now look in the mirror, like 'I am beautiful'. "
Smart Fit Girls website currently existsIn South Carolina, Colorado, Alaska and Wyoming, they are also recruiting high school girls to create leadership committees tailored to their own communities. “Different groups of girls have different challenges to the body image and the different ways the media is used,” says Chard.
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