Contents:
- Medical Video: Exercises that improve your child's coordination
- Regular exercise, healthy and proper ways to make children smart
- How long is the duration of exercise recommended for children and adolescents?
Medical Video: Exercises that improve your child's coordination
The benefits of exercise to make the body healthy and fit need not be doubted. But it turns out, exercise can also make smart children and bright achievements in school.
Regular exercise, healthy and proper ways to make children smart
The main key to being smart and achieving at school is certainly to study hard. Brain cognitive function can indeed decrease if the brain is rarely used to think. However, learning sessions that are only spent sitting still for hours need to be balanced with physical activity, such as exercise.
Besides helping the growth of bones and muscles and increasing stamina, physical exercise also nourishes the brain. As long as the body is driven to continue to brighten, the heart will continue to pump fresh blood to all organs, including the brain. Smooth blood flow to the brain will prevent damage to brain cells and, at the same time, help the formation of new brain cells.
Healthy brain cells will work better in supporting cognitive functions of the brain, including the ability to think, ability to focus / concentration, how someone understands something, solving problems, making decisions, remembering, and taking action.
Amika Singh, PhD., A researcher from Vrije Universiteit University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and author of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, said, "In addition to the effects of fission, exercise can also help behavior and behavior patterns in children in their class can concentrate while studying. "Yes. Because in addition to facilitating blood flow to the brain, exercise also simultaneously triggers the brain to release happy mood hormones endorphins, which make children's emotions easier to be happy, stable, and calm so that it is rarely "acting up".
The benefits of exercise for the brain have also been supported by a study that shows that on average smart children and those who excel in school are children who are also diligent in exercising.
How long is the duration of exercise recommended for children and adolescents?
The school curriculum in Indonesia on average includes Penjaskes (Physical and Health Education) subjects which are conducted at least once a week. However, the duration can vary for each child. For example, if referring to the 2013 curriculum, the average duration of subjects for school children ranges from 70 to 100 minutes every week.
Most parents may feel this is enough. Indeed, ideally the length of time a child's physical activity in one day is 60 minutes. But once a week's exercise at school is not enough, you know! In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends every child and adolescent aged 5-17 years to exercise at least 60 minutes every day or if it is totaled to 142 minutes a week. When compared, certainly not enough right?
So, children still have to do physical activity every day. For example by allowing children to ride a bicycle or walk to school, or register for extracurricular swimming or soccer. Encourage children to spend their rest time playing together, for example playing hide and seek.
There are many ways parents can guide and familiarize children with exercise every day. In addition to keeping children away from the risk of various dangerous diseases when he grows up, the benefits of exercise have also been proven to make children smart and accomplished. Not harmful, right? So, let's start getting used to children exercising since childhood!
