What are the benefits of physical exercise for young children?

We are trained to do physical exercise starting from kindergarten. Many people don’t understand why young children need to do physical exercise. Can their bodies accept it? While everyone is still struggling with this issue, some people have already understood the benefits of exercise for young children. However, many people are still not clear about it. The following content will talk about the benefits of physical exercise for young children. I hope that through the following explanation, everyone can encourage young children to exercise actively.

1. Can increase height. Physical exercise can enhance the functions of various organ systems in children and make them physically strong. Children are able to grow taller due to the growth of bones throughout the body, especially the growth of long bones. Physical exercise improves blood circulation and provides more nutrition to bone tissue. At the same time, exercise acts as a mechanical stimulus on bones. Therefore, it can accelerate bone growth and increase the height of children.

2. It can exercise children's limbs, increase muscle strength, and make the muscles gradually become fuller. If the abdominal muscles, lumbar muscles, back muscles, and limb supporting strength are strengthened before the child's various movements develop, and the lower limb muscle strength training is strengthened and some conditioned reflex training is performed, the child can establish connections in the brain center through these tactile stimulation and muscle training, and the child's movements can become more sensitive and his muscles can become developed.

3. Exercise can promote cardiopulmonary function, accelerate blood circulation, enhance metabolism, develop the myocardium, and strengthen contractility. During exercise, children's muscle activities consume a lot of oxygen and emit more carbon dioxide, so the respiratory organs need to work twice as hard. Over time, the range of thoracic movement expands, lung capacity increases, and the minute ventilation (i.e. the amount of air ventilated per minute) in the lungs increases, which enhances the function of the respiratory organs and has a good effect on preventing common respiratory diseases.

4. Exercise can increase children's gastrointestinal motility, enhance gastrointestinal digestion ability, increase appetite, and completely absorb nutrients, allowing children to develop better. Children with anorexia or food refusal need more exercise.

It is very good to cultivate children's physical exercise ability from an early age, which is helpful for children's physical development and bone growth. If we want our children's physique to be different from others, we should cultivate their physical exercise. However, any physical exercise needs to be appropriate. Excessive demands on children will only have a counterproductive effect. We can make daily plans for children based on their physical conditions so that they can grow up healthily.