There was a little boy in America who was often accused by his teacher when he was in kindergarten, saying that he couldn't sit still all day and couldn't concentrate.
When I graduated from kindergarten, the teacher angrily asserted to the little boy's mother, "I think your son will never do anything well in the future if he goes on like this!" " "
When he was in primary school, the little boy was often laughed at by his classmates because of his stuttering and unclear speech. To her mother's dismay, her son was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and needed medication for life.
Just when his mother was about to despair, the little boy's school opened a swimming class, and the boy was fascinated by swimming.
Later, the boy swam 65,438+10,000 meters in the swimming pool every week, seven days a week, even including Christmas.
Slowly, the little boy became a big boy, and he no longer needed drugs to treat his ADHD.
/kloc-At the age of 0/6, he set his first swimming world record. Until he retired, he won 23 Olympic gold medals. This boy is "Flying Fish", the athlete who won the most gold medals and medals in Olympic history-michael phelps.
Sports changed Phelps' fate.
In fact, every parent knows the benefits of exercise. Many parents enroll their children in swimming classes, basketball classes, street dance classes and equestrian classes when their children are born.
However, what many parents don't know is that each kind of exercise helps their children differently, and what kind of exercise is suitable for older children is also different.
Every child's development is also different, and it is fundamental to find the most suitable exercise for children.
2-3 years old
Children of this age are in the stage of developing motor skills, such as walking, crawling on the ground, digging with shovels, playing slides, running, building a building block house, catching balls and so on.
Exercise: 2-year-old children should learn to kick the ball with their feet, throw the ball with their hands and run.
3-year-old children should learn to ride tricycles, jump and other sports.
4-5 years old
Children aged 4-5 already have basic motor skills, and the focus of this age group is to help children train their balance and hand-eye coordination.
Sports: Children of this age can start practicing: football, swimming, cycling, mountain climbing, mountain climbing, yoga, roller skating, rope skipping and so on.
It should be noted that children aged 4-5 are not suitable for antagonistic and competitive sports; We should strengthen children's sense of balance and sports skills on the basis of their original.
6-8 years old
Children of this age have mastered the basic motor skills, and the physical functions of doing various movements are basically perfect, and some basic movements can be connected to complete more complicated movements.
For example, a 6-year-old child will use a baseball bat to play a baseball that flies in the air or rolls on the ground, instead of just playing a static baseball.
Moreover, compared with young children, children at this time can exercise and play for a longer time because their physical exercise level has improved; And began to be interested in organized team sports.
Sports: Children in this period will begin to like fencing, baseball, basketball, rugby, tennis and other exciting and interesting sports.
8- 10 years old
At this time, children have enough ability to engage in any sports and begin to like to participate in team sports; I also began to consciously compare myself with my peers.
Children who have participated in various sports since childhood often show their advantages in sports at this time.
Those children who didn't exercise much in the early days began to be at a disadvantage in physical fitness and skills, and some children began to give up sports for fear of failure.
Therefore, in order to make children's physical development better, parents should let their children participate in sports suitable for his age as soon as possible.
The benefits of each sport
There are many kinds of exercise, such as stretching breathing, muscle strength training, aerobic exercise, high-intensity interval exercise and so on. Different sports can bring different benefits to children. If time is limited, you must take your child to do "correct exercise".
Aerobic exercise contributes to the proliferation of hippocampal gyrus cells, which are the memory center of the brain.
Continuous moderate-intensity endurance aerobic exercise, such as jogging, can significantly increase the proliferation of hippocampal gyrus cells and improve the memory function of the brain compared with other muscle strength training or high-intensity intermittent exercise.
Exercise to improve memory: jogging, cycling, brisk walking, swimming and other moderate-intensity aerobic exercises.
"Concentration" requires the cooperation of many brain regions, including prefrontal lobe (executive function), basal nucleus (impulse control, attention transfer of different activities), cerebellum (attention) and parietal lobe (visual space processing).
To stimulate so many brain regions at the same time, the best exercise should be ball games. Because in the process of playing ball games, it will include running, coordination, balance, visual space, speed and agility, so ball games should be the sports with the highest comprehensive CP value.
Attention-improving sports: football, basketball, rugby, tennis and other ball games and fencing.
Many studies have pointed out that muscle exercise can increase the executive function of the brain. Because muscle strength training can increase the blood flow speed of the brain, improve alertness and attention, and promote the connection between nerve cells and the activation of bilateral prefrontal lobes.
The prefrontal lobe is the commander-in-chief of the brain, responsible for reasoning, problem solving, execution and thinking. Therefore, stimulating the frontal lobe is helpful to improve the executive function of the brain.
Sports to improve thinking: mountain climbing, horizontal bar, sit-ups, tug-of-war and other muscle strength training.
Generally speaking, we think that sports will increase children's appetite. No! In fact, some sports will reduce appetite! The key to increase children's appetite is what exercise to do and when to exercise.
Many studies have found that long-term continuous aerobic exercise will actually reduce appetite, because it reduces the role of a hormone that stimulates appetite (acylated auxin).
Some studies have pointed out more directly that high-intensity activities will inhibit appetite and make the body lose its desire for food. Most studies also point out that if you want to increase your appetite, you must exercise in a low temperature environment, which is why you are always very hungry after swimming.
It is found that after intermittent aerobic exercise, when the body cools down, the appetite will increase greatly.
Exercise to stimulate appetite: swimming, playing with water and other intermittent aerobic exercise, roller skating.
Children can continue to grow taller, relying on the growth plate in the bone; Stimulating the growth board to the greatest extent before it closes is the key to its height, and jumping is the most effective action to stimulate the growth board.
Uninterrupted jumping activities, such as jumping on the trampoline, will have a better influence on height than intermittent jumping activities, such as skipping rope.
Sports recommendation: jumping, basketball, running and skipping.
The amygdala is the emotional center of the brain; The insula deals with physical feelings and emotions; The inferior frontal gyrus is the place to develop empathy.
In recent years, many studies have found that yoga can increase the gray matter of insula, amygdala and frontal lobe. It can increase the secretion of serotonin, reduce the release of cortisol, help relieve anxiety, and increase self-concept and self-confidence.
In other words, yoga can help improve a person's emotional performance and stability.
Exercise can increase dopamine, oxytocin, endorphins and other endocrine, and help the brain feel happy, so as long as you continue to exercise, you can make people feel happy.
If parents especially want to help their children increase their self-confidence and frustrate their endurance, yoga will be a very suitable exercise.