How does a child spend the day:

A school going child spends just about 8 hours in school, including travel to and from home on a normal day in a typical urban town. If we exclude 8 hours of school time and another eight for his sleep and other chores of the day, he is left with 8 hours of free time at home. On Saturdays and Sundays since schools are closed, the kid is home the entire day. What does he do during his free time at home? Most kids spend an hour or two doing homework. The rest of the time they are mostly watching TV or playing video games, doing online streaming or browsing (Screen Time) or simply whiling away time. Kids are thus largely physically inactive while at home.

Consequences of physically inactive life style at home :

Several studies have shown that a physically inactive child who spends long hours on Screen Time tends to adopt a sedentary life style, leading to lack of focus on anything, including studies. This means an overall unsatisfactory academic performance, preventing the child from reaching his full potential in school. As he grows up and continues with his sedentary lifestyle into youth, he may underperform even in his professional career. Obesity and the onset of lifestyle diseases then follow at a much earlier stage in life. Studies suggest that today’s youth will be the first in the next few generations to live less longer than their parents.

Active Fun Academy tackles the High Screen Time – Low Physical Inactivity Epidemic:

One way to make children physically active is to enrol them in some kind of sports. A majority of today’s youth are already addicted to gadget based video games and don’t easily take to traditional sports such as cricket, football, and badminton etc. ‘FunSports’ on the other hand are gamified physical activities developed by Active Fun Academy - a venture of US company TopYa! after several years of scientific research, with the help of US universities, global experts in physical education and well known American and European sports clubs. With the curriculum of fun physical activities designed to allure and engage kids and youth of all ages, ‘FunSports’ content engages today’s Generation V (Video, Venture & Viral) by leveraging the very same technology that makes them physically inactive into becoming physically active any time, anywhere including within their homes

Benefits to children and youth using ‘FunSports’

A child who becomes physically active under the aegis of ‘FunSports’, learns to focus, persevere and self-challenge. This has a salutary effect on the child’s general performance and overall personality, leading to physical fitness, academic focus and emotional balance. Accordingly, Active Fun Academy helps to transform an inactive life-style into a physically active one, resulting in healthier and happier future generations that are confident, intellectually strong and professionally successful.