Spring is a good day for the revival of all things. In this warm spring season, children take off their thick clothes and are more willing to participate in sports. At this time, we should encourage them to participate in more sports, in order to help children develop good habits of exercise.
What are the benefits of exercise?
Adhering to scientific exercise can help children form and maintain healthy musculoskeletal tissues, including muscles, bones, and joints, promoting their growth and development;
★ It can also enhance physical fitness and immunity, and prevent diseases;
★ Enjoying the mood, honing willpower, enhancing confidence, and enhancing mental health;
★ It can also be beneficial for brain development, making children smarter.
What are the exercise methods to promote children's height growth?
Exercise is indeed beneficial for children's height growth. Parents should choose appropriate sports based on their children's age, developmental level, physical ability, and interests. They should proceed step by step and not rush to achieve results, otherwise it will be detrimental to the healthy growth of their children.
Firstly, we recommend jumping exercises. For children, the best choice for spring exercise is undoubtedly jumping sports, such as skipping rope, high jump, long jump, kicking shuttlecock, jumping rubber bands, basketball, and volleyball. Because jumping can stretch muscles and ligaments, it is easier to stimulate the division of chondrocytes and the secretion of growth hormone, thereby promoting children's growth.
Next is stretching exercises. Because the development of bones requires a certain amount of longitudinal pressure, stretching exercises such as swimming, pull-up exercises, stretching exercises, rings, and ballet can pull muscles and ligaments, stimulate cartilage proliferation, and promote the growth of spine and limb bones. Parents can allow children to fully stretch and exercise all parts of their body through swimming, and practicing pull-ups can stretch the spine and promote spinal bone growth, thereby promoting the continuous growth of children's height.
In addition, in daily life, attention should be paid to sitting, standing, and walking postures, maintaining a straight spine, and preventing scoliosis, which is equally important for height growth.
What sports should be avoided?
The above-mentioned movements such as jumping and stretching can apply vertical pressure to the bones, promote bone cell proliferation, assist in bone development, and thus promote height growth for children.
However, weight-bearing exercises such as weightlifting and dumbbells are compressive, and excessive pressure can hinder the longitudinal growth of bones. Children's bone development is not yet fully formed, which can easily damage bones and affect body height. Parents should encourage children to avoid these exercises as much as possible.
The Trilogy of Sports
Sports should emphasize science. A complete exercise includes three stages: preparation activities, formal activities, and organizing activities.
Preparation activities, also known as warm-up activities
It refers to the low-intensity physical exercise that begins with the main physical activity, usually lasting 5-10 minutes. By doing brisk walking and jogging, the various organ systems of the body are warmed up, entering the working state in advance and doing some flexibility stretching exercises to increase joint mobility and improve muscle elasticity to prevent sports injuries.
