Not feeling creative about your fitness activities? Remember – activities don't need to be complicated in order to be fun and successful. Fitness and stress-management expert Debbie Mandel has some suggestions for you:

• Create your own interval training course. Use mats to roll on, draw chalk boxes for broad jumps, have a jumping jack station. It's a lot of fun for the entire family, and you can change it up all the time.
• Transform an ordinary walk with sprints. Walk alongside your child, then burst into a run. Walk for a few more blocks, then repeat that sprint. Make it competitive!
• Run family relay races in the backyard.
• Put on your own dance show, with each member of the family creating an original dance and performing it for the whole clan.
• Can't get your child to get off the couch and stop watching TV? Fortunately, there are many commercials. As soon as there is a commercial break, exercise begins: squats, jumping jacks, knee lifts, marching in place, etc.
• Jump rope – kids love it and parents will feel like kids again.