Summer Is Perfect For Teen Sports And Fitness

July 28, 2022,

Is it is warm where you are at?

It sure is here, in Northern California, in the Sacramento area. Sweltering.

Summer is, as summer does. Annually.

During the warmest time of year, it is a great time for teenagers to get involved in sports and fitness activities.

We have a press release and article that speaks to that.

MySummerChallenge.com Helps Parents Keep Their Teens and Pre-Teens Healthy and Active All Summer

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Jul 14, 2022, 08:43 ET

My Summer Challenge Announces its Exciting Six-Week Summer Program

SEATTLE, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Mysummerchallenge.com announces its six-week teen and pre-teen summer series titled My Summer Challenge, filled with inspiration and creative ways to keep kids active and motivated all summer long. The program launches this Saturday July 16^th, 2022.

Kids Need Help Getting off all their Screens

It is not an exaggeration to say that there is an epidemic today for teens and pre-teens and that is their addiction to social media, online gaming, television programming and movies. YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok have revolutionized the way kids think and interact; the downside is that they have made kids more observational rather than experiential – they observe others as they live their lives, but the teens and pre-teens have forgotten how to create their own memories and experiences. This has led to the unintended side-effects of passivity, social reclusiveness, and depression/anxiety.

Parents are at their wits end this summer and do not know how to help their kids be kids again.

My Summer Challenge to the Rescue

My Summer Challenge (www.mysummerchallenge.com) is launching this Saturday, July 16^th and is a game-changer for parents, and their teen and pre-teenage kids. My Summer Challenge is a six-week program designed help teens and pre-teens become more active in two areas: Mind and Motion. With Mind, the participants receive weekly inspirational content (videos, interviews, articles) to inspire their imaginations and desire to become and do their very best. Positive, inspirational, and motivational – all designed for teens and pre-teens.

With the Motion aspect of My Summer Challenge, teens and pre-teens are sent daily bursts of content all designed to help them be active, creative and engage with their friends more. There are four different categories: Friendlys (tons of games and activities with friends), Creativities (inspiration to be creative in eight different categories from arts/craft to acting/singing to creating their own cooking or DIY show), Adventures (planning for those special weekly adventures with friends to places like the County Fair, the zoo, a beach excursion), and Fitness (multiple options each week to help kids be active and healthy, regardless of their skill or ability).

What makes My Summer Challenge so exciting is that the users are constantly encouraged to involve their friends and make memories together. There is even a fun built-in weekly activity tracker that the kids use to amass as many points as possible through their activities and creativities. And the users track their progress in their personal My Summer Challenge journals.

My Summer Challenge Host and Director: Scott Ross

Scott Ross is the founder and director of My Summer Challenge and the host for the six weeks of content. Scott has over a decade of work leading teens and pre-teen programs, is an inspirational genius, funny, engaging and earns the respect of teens and pre-teens alike.

For more information: www.mysummerchallenge.com

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Maybe you didn’t realize it when you were young but your participation in organized sports placed you in a position to never ever again be comfortable with an out of shape body.

A habit, good or bad, is hard to break.

The idea that participation in organized sports at an early age is supported by the team at aboutkidshealth.ca, “Starting a child in an organized sport gives them a healthy habit of physical activity to see them right through to adulthood and help them ward off many age- and weight-related ailments. Even before adulthood, teens who take part in sports are less likely to smoke, do drugs or abuse alcohol.”

We thought so.

What tends to happen as a person ages and their circle of influence changes, it opens them up to new sports to participate in.

Team sports can teach children to trust and rely upon others to achieve common goals, appreciate everyone’s individual strengths and put the group’s collective needs before individual wants.

This thought process is supported at psychologytoday.com who surmise, “Sports are more than just fun and games and entertainment for the masses. Athletes, coaches, parents, and fans are drawn to the training, focus, discipline, loyalty, competitiveness, identity, and individual and team performances that are hallmarks of sports culture.

For young people, sports are a means to physical and emotional well-being and the development of strong leadership skills like communication and organization.”

Which begs the question to you as a teen. Are you currently participating in any organized sports?

To the adults. If you have children, have you involved them?

The benefits of participation in organized sports is endless and sometimes what we can lose sight of it that it helps you develop a sense of humor.

We see it in film and one of the first about women’s participation in organized sports is Pat and Mike.

Pat and Mike is a 1952 American romantic comedy film starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. The movie was written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, and directed by George Cukor, who also directed The Philadelphia Story (1940) with Hepburn, and Adam’s Rib (1949) with Hepburn and Tracy.

Clearly this film was ahead of its time.

The storyline goes, Pat Pemberton (Katharine Hepburn) is a brilliant athlete who loses her confidence whenever her charming but overbearing fiancé Collier (William Ching) is around. Women’s golf and tennis championships are within her reach; however, she gets flustered by his presence at the contests. He wants her to give up her goal and marry him, but Pat does not give up on herself that easily. She enlists the help of Mike Conovan (Spencer Tracy), a slightly shady sports promoter. Together they face mobsters, a jealous boxer (Aldo Ray), and a growing mutual attraction.

With that storyline you will need a sense of humor. What we found significant is that the film broke down some of the barriers of the time about women participating in sports at a high level.

In film we move across the spectrum and bring female participation in organized sports into the modern era where virtually everything is more serious.

The 1980s was a transition for women in organized sports from virtual non-existence to being the precursor to Title Nine.

Title IX is a federal civil rights law in the United States of America that was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. It was co-authored and introduced by Senator Birch Bayh in the U.S. Senate, and Congresswoman Patsy Mink in the House. It was later renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act following Ms. Mink’s death in 2002.

Many remember this film as women in organized sports coming out party which was not a comedy or a completely feel good story.

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Personal Best is a 1982 American drama film written, produced, and directed by Robert Towne. The movie stars Mariel Hemingway and real-life track star Patrice Donnelly, along with Scott Glenn as the coach of the track team.

The storyline goes, young sprinter Chris Cahill (Mariel Hemingway) is having difficulty reaching her potential as an athlete, until she meets established track star Tory Skinner (Patrice Donnelly). At first the two women form a friendship as Tory and her coach (Scott Glenn) help Chris with her training. Gradually, Tory and Chris start having a sexual relationship and become very close. Their intimacy becomes complicated when Chris’ improvement causes them to be competitors for the Olympic team.

Even the legendary movie review Roger Ebert enjoyed Personal Best. He smiles, “Robert Towne’s “Personal Best” tells the story of two women who are competitors for pentathlete berths on the 1980 U.S. Olympics team–the team that did not go to Moscow. The women are attracted to one another almost at first sight, and what begins as a tentative exploration develops into a love relationship. Then the romance gets mixed up with the ferocity of top-level sports competition.

What distinguishes “Personal Best” is that it creates specific characters–flesh-and-blood people with interesting personalities, people I cared about.”

Now we fast forward to today and women in organized sports has evolved thanks to Title Nine.

The University of Minnesota website shares that forty percent of all sports participants are female.

The Olympic community at olympic.org adds, “The number of women athletes at the Olympic Games is approaching 50 per cent. Since 2012, women have participated in every Olympic sport at the Games. All new sports to be included in the Games must contain women’s events. The IOC has increased the number of women’s events on the Olympic program, in collaboration with the IFs and the organizing committees.

Since 1991, any new sports seeking to be included on the Olympic program have been required to include women’s events, while the IOC has also worked closely with the International Sports Federations (IFs) to stimulate women’s involvement in sport through more participation opportunities at the Olympic Games.”

Women have come a tremendously long way since the film Kate and Mike.

If you would like to participate in organized sports or involve your child, the great news is that sporting events occur so often throughout the year that it is usually easy to find at least one athlete, player or team to support.

Another benefit we shouldn’t forget is how the participation of one family member can inspire all family members to become involved early and influence their friends to get involved too.