| The family is the most basic constituent unit of the society, the social cell for composition. With the development of economy and society, and also with the acceleration of urbanization, some new changes have taken place in our families.There are more and more nuclear families in the city and its proportion is growing.Family phyisical activity, as a healthy and progressive way of life, has been accepted by a growing number of urban households. It is promotive for the family phyisical activities to all the family members. However, the previous studies tend to focus on teenagers.We should see the family sports also have a very important role to promote the health of adults.The following reasearch in oriented from the city of Jinan to study the current situation of the family physical activites and to explore the role of the family sports to promote the health of family members. We need to make more families recognize that the family sports can promote the health condition of each member of the family, so that more families will not only carry out the phyisical activites but make it better to promote a more harmonious family.The younger generation will foster the awareness of physical exercise to develop the habit of doing physical activities; while the seniors will have a better life through it. The following article comes to the relevant conclusions through literature analysis, interview, questionnaire and mathematical statistics.1. There are some common features of the family physical activities in the nuclear families in Jinan. Activities are mainly on walking, running, climbing and ball games, preference to the activities require less investment; site selection to follow the principle of proximity conditions, and if it is possible stadiums activities are also welcome. For the frequency, most families have sports activities once a week, moderate-intensity and time suficient time; for family investment in sports, inadequate investment in some families.2. The purposes for family phyisical activites vary. Leisure and development objectives is to carry out the reasons of family sports; while, a combination of these two apply to many families.3. Family physical activities is a form of sports that all the members can participate in. Family sports activities play a significant role in promoting the health of the family members.4. Family physical activities also play an important role on the mental health effects of family members, mainly for children to experience the fun of sport to gain a sense of accomplishment and self-confidence. For adults, it can relieve stress, reduce unhealthy state of mind as parents. In addition, the family sports activities play an important role in the promotion of family harmony.5. The decision members of the family vary in different periods of time. Parents play a major role when kids are in the lower grades; with growing up, the children influence is also growing. |