Contents:
- Medical Video: The benefits of exercise
- Why do children need to exercise early?
- 1. Prevent various diseases when he is an adult
- 2. Character development
- 3. Avoid negative mental conditions
- How to overcome children who do not want to exercise?
Medical Video: The benefits of exercise
Not only adults who have to exercise regularly. Children need exercise too, even according to experts, from children as young as six years old, a child should have done certain physical activities for at least one hour each day. However, reported from Healthy Kids, boys aged 6-10 years tend to be more active than girls at that age. This activity even decreases with increasing age of the child.
Why do children need to exercise early?
Familiarizing children with active sports from an early age is very important for their present time and their time. Putting your child into the school sports team is one way you can help your child to be more active in exercising. What are the benefits of exercise in children?
1. Prevent various diseases when he is an adult
All know that active exercise will make your child's body healthier. Not getting used to your child exercising will actually make him grow into an inactive adult, prone to obesity, osteoporosis, or even vulnerable to breast cancer in the future for girls.
Maybe these conditions can be prevented in many ways, but by joining a school sports team, for example, your child will certainly be more enthusiastic about exercising because many friends support him.
2. Character development
Achieving achievement and development of abilities due to active exercise, will be able to increase your child's confidence. In addition to self-confidence, including your child in a school sports team will also be able to hone their skills in socializing with others. Especially if the activity of exercising your child makes him chosen to represent the school to compete with other schools, the spirit of competition and the ability to cooperate with the team from within him will naturally develop.
3. Avoid negative mental conditions
Some people use exercise to deal with stress, depression, and anxiety they experience. Thus, by actively exercising, your child will tend to avoid uncontrollable emotions, because when his emotions explode, he has channeled these emotions through something more positive, namely sports. The Women’s Sport Foundation also added that a girl who is actively exercising, will tend to have good grades in school, because they have been trained to concentrate.
How to overcome children who do not want to exercise?
If you put your child into a school sports team, it doesn't work to make him active in sports, doing joint physical activity between parents and children may be tried, such as:
- When you enjoy doing a sport in front of him, show him that exercise is fun.
- Invite your child to play in the backyard, dance, go around the area around the house on a bicycle, and swim together.
- Introduce a variety of sports by getting your child to do it together, so that you can help your child find what sport he enjoys the most.
- Limiting activities that will only make it silent for some time, such as limiting TV viewing to only two hours a day.
But before that, don't forget to use a hat and sunblock when you and your child are outdoors, and provide enough fluids and nutrients during exercise or joint activities.
