It's the weekend, the kids are all home 🏠 and you can finally relax after your hard week at work 💼. What's better than a nice family weekend to do some sports together?

At JOG & JIM, we are convinced that sport should above all be a source of pleasure 🤸, which is why we offer you in this article various activities to do with your family to spend a friendly time.

What are the benefits of family sports? 🌟

#1 Sport improves health 🫀

In addition to having a good time together, your family sports outings will have a positive impact on your health and that of your children or parents. By sharing this moment, the effort produced will seem minimal to you, you will be able to spend yourself while having a lot of fun and taking care of your body 💪 and mind 🧠. In children, regular physical activity helps contribute to psychomotor development, that is to say the control of one's body, muscles, the work of one's coordination, balance and concentration. While in adults, it helps them to maintain their body, their balance and helps the body to age 🧓in good conditions.

#2 Family sports activities allow you to disconnect 📵

After a long day at work, you only want one thing: to join your children and your partner to finally disconnect and enjoy a pleasant moment with them. So take advantage of a sports activity to get together, leave your phones and computers far away and enjoy this break in your daily life to let off steam 🏃and think only of the present moment.

#3 Family sport helps to transmit the values ​​necessary for life in society 🫂

Sport brings many values ​​such as tolerance, respect (for teammates, opponents and rules), perseverance, teamwork 👥, mutual aid, humility, determination and willpower that unite people and make them more capable of life in society. These values ​​must be instilled from a young age, hence the importance of playing sports with your children. 👪

#4 Practicing with your parents gives you a taste for effort 🤼

Seeing you enjoy physical effort, your children will probably want to reproduce you and experience the same pleasure 🕺. This would therefore be an opportunity for you to have the same passion as your child and thus a possibility to enrich your discussions. 💬 Be careful not to force your child to practice an activity that he does not appreciate under the pretext that it is your favorite sport, you can have very enriching discussions without having the same interests.

#5 This activity allows you to rediscover your sport 🧘

Playing a sport as a family allows you to rediscover this sport, to consider it from your children's perspective and thus to be able to modify your habits by adapting the movements or rules so that the game is accessible to all ✅. You will thus be able to discover new sensations or even experience again the sensations felt when you started in this sport.

#6 It offers the possibility of experiencing unforgettable moments 🥳

Finally, family sports will allow you to experience unforgettable moments, to go through all the emotions and to create a real bond between each member of the family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦. Whether in difficulty 📉, in defeats ❌ or victories ✌️, these sporting moments spent together will consolidate your family and create memorable memories!

Some ideas for sports to practice as a family 👩‍👦‍👦

Family sports should be accessible to everyone and should be adapted to the age 👴 and physical condition 🧑‍🦯 of each person. As a family, we forget about competition and think above all about having fun with those we love. 🤟

For example, you can go hiking 🥾, cycling 🚵, swimming 🏊 with your loved ones or even do more original activities like a mini-golf tournament 🏌️, ball games 🏐, dance lessons 💃… Whatever the activity chosen, it must meet everyone's tastes: the primary objective remains to have fun with your family!

• How to do sports with a baby? 👶

No need to call on a nanny to look after your baby when you want to exercise, you can now move with him! More and more activities are adapted to young mothers to give them the freedom to exercise, this is particularly the case with yoga 🧘, swimming 🏊‍♀️ where children can go to the "baby swimmer" pool, stroller fitness 🚼, baby gym 🤸‍♀️or even running 🏃‍♀️and cycling 🚴‍♀️ thanks to sports accessories adapted to transporting babies.

• How to do sports with teenagers? 👦👧

Gone are the days when teenagers stopped doing activities with their parents, ❌now it is quite possible to spend time with your family and have a lot of fun. Offer your children thrilling activities like climbing 🧗, via ferrata, rollerblading 🛼, board sports 🏂 or kayaking 🛶which will create unforgettable memories for you and your children.

• How to do sports with seniors? 👵👴

Let's forget the preconceived ideas about the sedentary lifestyle of the elderly, your parents or grandparents can still do sports with you and have a lot of fun! The important thing is to offer sports where the risk of injury is limited, such as hiking 🥾, Nordic walking 🦯, cycling 🚲, a game of pétanque ⚪or mölky 🪵or even calmer activities like tai chi 🧘and fitness.

What precautions should be taken? ⚠️

Playing sports with your family can involve certain risks if the activities chosen are not adapted to everyone's physical condition, the goal is to have fun as a family and not to get injured! 🤕

Furthermore, nothing should be imposed, the choice of activity should come from a collective decision 👥, all members of the family must enjoy 🤸practicing the sport and therefore be able to choose the activity.