5 Tips To Promote Physical Activities Among Children

In this article, you will learn about 5 tips to promote physical activities among children. Physical activity is defined as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that require energy expenditure. Regular physical activity can help children and adolescents improve cardiorespiratory fitness, build strong bones and muscles, control weight, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and reduce the risk of developing health conditions such as heart disease.

As the importance of physical activities in sync with education is realized, there are efforts made by the schools to create a balance between physical activities and curricular activities. Even CBSE has recognized the importance of physical activities and has directed all CBSE affiliated schools to mandatorily include physical education in its timetable particularly for the students of grades IX to XII.

There is a maxim that goes all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Thus too much of focus on academics alone makes a child’s life boring and mundane and may cause depression and failure. Moreover, there is evidence to suggest that physical activities improve the quality of their life. Also, it has been acknowledged that a healthy person is the one who is active and physically fit.

There are Many Reasons Attributed to Physical Activities Being a Part of Schools. A few of These Reasons are – 

• Augments Child’s Ability To Concentrate and Maintain Focus

In today’s time, there are a lot of distractions for students. Even for academic pursuits, when they try to find any related detail, they end being hooked to the PCs, mobiles for the entire day. So its need of the hour to encourage students to take physical activities that will enhance their ability of concentration and focus.

• Vital for Healthy Growth and Development

Children today do not pay attention to eating healthy food. They enjoy eating junk food, aerated drinks and consequently are affected with hypertension, high blood pressure, obesity, lethargy, and many other such diseases.

Physical activities in school help them burn off their extra calories and at the same time use their extra calories to gain energy. It also leads to the development of bones and cartilages. Bone-strengthening exercise such as jumping is particularly important for school children as such activities produce a force onto the bone that helps enhance its strength and growth. The physical activities also aid in protecting joints against injuries.

Few Exercises that Help Strengthen Muscles and Makes Heart Strong are-

– Bar Exercises

– Playing Basketball

– Playing Soccer

– Jumping Rope

– Prevents Sleeplessness

A child who is active through the day in playing, running etc., would feel exhausted and need a good night’s sleep. 6-8 hours of sleep is must replenish the body of tiredness. The restored energies of the child would make him/her attentive and alert in the classroom and thus boost his/ her academic performance and enhance focus.

• Helps in Relieving Stress and Anxiety

The students have so many things to manage on their own, be it academics, co-curricular activities, social life etc., that they need activities to unwind and relax. Therefore physical activities are the best way to ease out of stress and anxiety from their hectic life. There are exercises that make the brain relaxed and stress-free and as a result, the student gets the feeling of serenity, calmness, happiness, and health.

• Makes an Individual Flexible and Happy

Physical activities make the body flexible and decrease chances of injuries. It allows an individual to manage both physical and mental workload as healthy consequently their well-connected neurons (thanks to physical activities)help improve the over-all thinking ability of students. Thus, making them better students.
With so many benefits it is imperative to include physical activities as a part of beyond the books curriculum. The physical activities besides making students happier, healthier, energetic, focused, strong and academically inclined can also be taken up as vocation if need be.