Don’t call it exercise: 7 tips to get kids to work out with their parents

Yoga and pilates instructor Jimin Choi gets her daughter Skye Nee and son Mason Nee to do yoga moves with her without telling them they are exercising. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
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SINGAPORE – When Ms Jimin Choi, 37, takes her children to the park, they do not know that it is actually a workout.

The yoga and pilates instructor at Pure Group, Singapore, spices up their walks by getting her family to practise yoga moves like the tree pose, which involves balancing on one leg. Ms Choi and her children, Skye Nee, 11, and Mason Nee, seven, sometimes all clamber up on her 46-year-old pilot husband to form a human pyramid.

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