BENEFITS TO EARLY ACTIVITY
🏊🏼♂️🤾🏽♀️ Early lifestyle habits – and their benefits – established early in life are carried forward into adulthood. And of course, one of the most powerful ways to teach children to be active is to lead by example. ⛹🏻♂️🤽🏽♂️
According to The American Council on Exercise, here are 10 of the top reasons that kids should get plenty of exercise:
1. Kids who are deliberately active tend to continue an active lifestyle as an adult.
2. Exercise and activity manages and maintains a healthy body mass index.
3. Exercise optimizes muscle, bones and joints over a lifetime.
4. Involvement in team sports boosts the development interpersonal skills.
5. Exercise Improves the quantity and quality of sleep.
6. Academic performance is higher in kids who engage in regular physical activity compared to their sedentary counterparts.
7. Better self esteem has been noted in kids who exercise compared to sedentary individuals in the same age groups
8. Management and prevention of various health conditions with either a childhood or adult onset (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, obesity, hypertension) and promotes health.
9. Improved overall mood and emotional control. Decreased prevalence of anxiety and depression.
10. Enhanced motor development, motor control, coordination, balance, agility and injury prevention
