 Today’s obese children will become tomorrow’s obese adults.  Over the last three decades childhood obesity has increased 30 percent.  Potential health problems and health care cost for the future  Heart Disease is the number one killer among men and women in the U.S.

 ADHD German boys  Age: years old  97 boys sampled for a three year period  BMI %  Methylphenidate medication

 “The prevalence of overweight and obesity is lower in a population of boys with ADHD than in the normal German population of boys in the same age”.  Hypothesis was based off of previous studies

 14 patients received methylphenidate medication  Height measured by stadiometry

 No significant differences in the relative number of overweight and obese ADHD subjects  Slight to no difference in subjects that received the drug methylphenidate  Examined their study with psychiatric conditions

Mean + SD Age (y)10 +2 Weight (kg) Weight-percentile Height (cm) Height-percentile BMI (kg/m) BMI-percentile % of subjects with BMI > 90 percentile 19.6 % of subjects with BMI > 97 percentile 7.2

MondayTuesday 10-minute warm-up consisting of dynamic stretching 15-minute bike ride with trainer to maintain duration: minimum one mile 5 minute cool down, which consist of meters of walk/jog, alternate every 100 meters (length depends on fatigue level of client) 10-minute warm-up of dynamic stretches Seated Cable Cross: 55% of 1RM Chest Press Machine: 55% of 1RM Bicep Curls Machine: 55% of 1RM Triceps Extension Machine: 55% of 1RM Standing Shoulder Press: weight able to do Flexibility Stretches (Hold each stretch for 10 secs.) Cross body Shoulder (each side) Behind Head Triceps (each side) Behind Back Stretch Arm circles Forward & Back (Small & large circles