Arlington County Government, VA Here/Now, 29 May 2013

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From YouTube: Fit Arlington: Turtle Trot Training

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Today 1 in 3 children in America is considered obese. That's why it's important for us to find fun and innovative ways to kids to move more. The Arlington County Parks & Recreation Department is finding lots of ways to help kids age into activity. Arlington TV's Katie Sweeney drops in at Walter Reed Community Center to see what they're doing to help kids get fit. There, Jamal Jones, Director of After School Programs at Walter Reed, lets us join a class helping kids train for the upcoming Turtle Trot 5K. Katie makes a few friends with the kids, and later they get a visit from the Chairman of the Arlington County Board, J. Walter Tejada. Mr Tejada, an avid sportsman himself, has long made Fit Arlington one of his core policy objectives on the Board.

Of course the Turtle Trot training was just one of the many many programs that Parks and Rec has for Arlington's kids. To find out more and register for classes, go to www.arlingtonva.us/parks and click on "Kids."

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Today, one in three children in America is considered obese. That's why it's important for us to find fun and innovative ways to get kids to move more here at the Arlington County Parks and Recreation Department they're, finding ways for kids to age into activity. Let's check out what they're doing.

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Your professor of me, BAM hanukkah, have you ever run a 5k before no. This is my first time is your first time what.

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Made you want to run a five min well, I have asthma and I travel I want to try and run so I could like get used to run again that, like getting all dizzy and all that yeah, and so how many days a week to you train for your.

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Myspace everybody went every wednesday, and so what's your favorite thing about this after-school program,.

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That it is very fun and creative and get to do with fun, stuff and exercise it grow. And what.

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Is your favorite thing that you do at this program you're.

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About to do sumin, Russell name is Susanna and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna enjoy it.

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So you haven't done sumo wrestling yet, but you're fairly, certain nothing can go wrong. Everything could be fun about sumeru. What's your best running time that you've done I'm five minutes five minute miles. Do you know what the fastest recorded a 5k race time is? Do you know what the fastest time for a 5k juggling is? Could you run and juggle.

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So right we're so we jump and then we go down. We just go straight down.

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What number are we on.

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Jamal Jones, the director of afterschool programs at Walter, Reed community center, is helping these kids prepare for the turtle trot 5k, but he's also trying to build fitness habits that will last a lifetime. We're.

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Training for an upcoming turtle trot it's going to be a blue mountain park, so this is actually our first time participating in it and a lot of their first time running a total tribe, so we're just trying to teach them different things, basically, endurance, control and just to pace themselves. You know a lot of them, as you guys may have seen, is just running full speed, not realizing they're, about to run three miles.

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Of times, kids either are going straight from school to home without any interaction with other kids, when you start being active at a young age and enjoying being active that it leads on to the same kind of energy and enthusiasm as you grow up. Let's.

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See who you think faster? Oh my gosh, promoting a culture of fitness, has always been a crucial policy concern for Arlington County, Board, Chairman, Walter Tejada, and we caught up with mr. Tejada at blumont Park, where he shared some running advice with the kids. It's.

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Critical for the health of the community more ways than one not only because we feel good and our energized when we exercise to have a balanced diet. It also turns out it helps us live longer and healthier, and that also saves us healthcare costs and it's fun to get out there and run or play a sport stretching and looking at eating. Healthy foods. Stuff like that. So for us, promoting a culture of fitness is part of our life in Arlington County, especially modeling for kids. Could kids pay attention to what we do?

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They may not say you know I'm going to copy what you're doing they hear us. They look at what we do and we haven't done an obligation to model good things, good habits, just simply what it's expected that we do in life.

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Turtle trot is just one of many great programs at the arlington parks department offers things such as basketball, move and groove and other great sports are available. You can check out their website for more information on more great opportunities to get fit and to age into activity.

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