Childhood Obesity Prevention Program Generates Instant and Delayed Gratification Simultaneously


by Rick Osbourne - Date: 2007-01-25 - Word Count: 452 Share This!

Teaching kids to immunize themselves against obesity by teaching them to perform pull ups (obese kids can't do pull ups) with a height adjustable pull up bar (HAPUB) and leg assisted pull ups (LAPU's) provides instant and delayed gratification simultaneously. Check out the strategy and the childhood obesity prevention technique called Operation Pull Your Own Weight.

Height Adjustable Pull Up Bars and Leg Assisted Pull Ups

Using a height adjustable pull up bar allows students to start with their feet planted firmly on the ground in order to perform leg assisted pull ups, where they're encouraged to jump and pull at the same time. The bar is placed low enough that participants can do at least eight leg assisted pull ups in their first workout, succeeding right away in front of their peers, creating immediate gratification.

Learning to Love Pull Ups

In workout number two they're allowed to do nine, in workout number three they do ten, in workout number four they do eleven, and in workout number five they do twelve leg assisted pull ups. When they can do twelve LAPU's, the bar is raised one full inch, and the entire eight to twelve repetition scenario is repeated all over again. Done correctly most participants will improve just a little bit, every time they workout for eight or ten weeks straight, and in the process they lose their fear of the pull up bar and actually learn to look forward to their opportunity to perform successfully, in public.

Instant Combined With Delayed Gratification

By using the height adjustable pull up bar together with leg assisted pull ups, students can literally "inch their way up" towards the ultimate goal of doing real live, conventional pull ups. The long-term goal of being able to do pull ups often takes weeks, months, or even a year to complete. This translates into delayed gratification.

But on the way to reaching that ultimate goal, the regular, but thin slices of success provide the immediate gratification, fan the motivational flame, and teaches participants to "expect success" (confidence/self esteem) not failure. It also teaches them to persist, persist, and persist in order to achieve that ultimate goal that they've set for themselves.

It Works With the Three R's Too

Interestingly enough the "thin slices of success strategy," with its built in instant and delayed gratifications, works not only for pull ups, but for reading, writing, and arithmetic too. Educators who successfully teach kids to understand their experience on the pull up bar, can easily translate that experience into the academic arena. In the process they'll cultivate self confident and highly motivated kids who can handle delayed gratification and immunize themselves against obesity at the same time, as long as they maintain the ability to do pull ups.


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Rick Osbourne is a Chicago based freelance writer who currently serves as Executive Director for Operation Pull Your Own Weight, an informational web site dedicated to showing parents and educators how to naturally immunize kids against obesity for a lifetime without shots, pills, or fancy diets to get the job done. If you're interested in knowing more about http://www.childhood-obesity-prevention.comchildhood and obesity or http://www.childhood-obesity-prevention.comobesity in America check out the web site at http://www.pullyourownweight.net. Rick can be reached via email at Osbourne.rick@gmail.com or by phone during business hours.

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