How to do warm-up exercises for children's physical education

Young children are a special group. Generally, we will reduce the amount of their physical exercise appropriately because their physical endurance is limited. We hope that children can exercise more, but we also don’t want them to be too tired. Because children are in a period of growth and development, if we want them to grow up healthily, we also need to let them participate in more physical exercise. Before participating in physical exercise, they must do warm-up exercises to avoid danger. So how do children do warm-up exercises? Let’s learn more about it!

Generally, the warm-up exercise time is 5-6 minutes for large classes, 4-5 minutes for medium classes, and 3-4 minutes for small classes. However, the duration of warm-up exercises is not fixed. For example, in hot summer, young children are prone to sweating and fatigue, so the warm-up exercise time should be shortened appropriately; in cold winter, it is more difficult to warm up the body, so the activity time can be appropriately extended.

Before physical activities, children's muscles and joints are not flexible enough and have poor stretchability. To avoid sports injuries, teachers should choose comfortable and soft surfaces based on the content of the physical activities and avoid conducting warm-up exercises on hard surfaces such as brick floors.

During warm-up exercises, teachers can arrange them in the order of head, shoulders, arms, wrists, waist, squatting, leg lifting, jumping, and stepping, from slow to fast, from concentrated to dispersed, so that children can fully exercise their bodies and avoid sports injuries.

When organizing warm-up exercises, you can make full use of the environment in the park and make reasonable use of sand, grass, plastic, land and other venues. The warm-up exercise time should be determined according to the season, temperature and the child's physical movement. Warm-up exercises should be arranged at the right time and in the right amount.

Warm-up exercises for young children are very important and should never be ignored. Because children's physical development is not yet complete and they are still in the development stage, they must do warm-up exercises to better prevent accidents during exercise. Therefore, children must do warm-up exercises before doing physical exercise, which will have many benefits for the body.