Fitness Tips — April 1, 2010 18:00 — 0 Comments
Fitness Exercises – Why children should be exercising
Why children should be exercising
Why children should be exercising
From an early age, we are encouraged to be active, to participate on the playground and to engage in our favorite sports. Did you ever wonder why this is such good advice? the short answer is that exercise affects the entire body, including the mind, in a positive manner.
Getting our young people up and going for play aerobics, or simple and repetitive motions helps to increase the capillaries that supply blood flow to the cerebellum. Raising the levels of cardiovascular fitness helps to stave off coronary heart disease, and it plays a part in controlling or reducing hypertension, stroke and varicose veins (in our lower body). its fun and it’s an easy thing to do, most kids are already doing it and they don’t consider it training either.
Do you need other reasons to stimulate their activity levels? how about this one, each new skill that they learn will directly increase the synaptic connections in the brain. the more of these positive connections the better will be their agility, coordination and balance abilities.
Normal childhood brings with it the opportunity to run and jump, to hop and throw, climb and balance and to kick and catch objects. These rudimentary skills are practiced and learned early as a child. if by chance the child does not have these genetic skills by four or five then it makes it VERY DIFFICULT for them to be at the same levels of their peers. this may cause them to forgo any types of physical activity at all because they can’t keep up with their friends on the playground. there is an answer though.
Providing a child with the time to practice these skills and being a good role model helps them to learn how to do these movements in the right way. it is not enough just to teach them any old time. the parent and coach have to realize there are certain times during the maturation process when specific movement skills are the most susceptible to being trained. Knowledgeable coaches will know when and how to teach certain skills as the child develops. certainly not all of the skills will be taught at the same time, but each parent or coach should be striving to develop the entire range to the highest levels possible over the course of the child’s growing up period.
Each child needs to have their day in the sun, outdoors being active and doing it the right way in the right sequence according to their time schedule will be of the greatest benefit to each one of them.
- Weight Loss Program – how to Burn Fat Fast
- Hold Plank on Elbows and Toes
- Denise Austin working those hips again !
- Fitness Equipment Ratings – are Consumer Reviews Reliable?
- Neck and Shoulders – feat. Wexer .com instructor Anna Virenhem
Leave a reply
