Ideas please!
DS 12yrs usually does a fair amount of sport: swimming, parkour, gym, handball & volleyball (these two are school lunchtime clubs) plus two PE sessions at school each week. But he’s not an enthusiast about any of them, other than the parkour. He does them because we /school make him and - more importantly for him - he’s very sociable and really enjoys hanging out with the friends he has made at these classes / in school.
10 days into shutdown and he’s already started to gain weight. Continuing with his usual fairly healthy eating habits while not getting to any of his regular exercise.
I know the only real option is for him to workout at home. He point blank refuses to do it alone. His gym and his PE teachers have sent exercise sheets and vids. He does them half heartedly in his room, and does the bare minimum. He says they are boring and difficult to follow.
I know I should join him and his little bro to do Joe Wicks it something. But I have 4 bulging discs and sciatica that is playing up really badly with all the extra sitting around. I really don’t want to make it worse!
Any tips? Anyone got ideas for getting reluctant stroppy pre-teens to exercise when they don’t want to?