Warm-up exercises before children's physical education class

Every parent hopes that their children are healthy, so there is a physical education class in kindergarten. No matter who you are, you need to do warm-up exercises before doing exercise, even children. This is because warm-up exercises have many benefits and can help children improve their physical fitness. Here are some benefits of warm-up exercises for young children!

1. 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, because the epiphyseal cartilage at both ends of the long bones is the growth point of the 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 child's height accordingly. Infant swimming is widely practiced in countries such as the former Soviet Union and Germany. Research by physiological and medical experts in those places has shown that infants who participate in swimming grow faster than normal children.

2. Enhance physical fitness

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. Promote blood pressure circulation

Exercise can promote cardiopulmonary function, accelerate blood circulation, enhance metabolism, develop the myocardium, and strengthen contractility. During exercise, children's muscle activity consumes a lot of oxygen and discharges more carbon dioxide, so the respiratory organs need to work twice as hard. Over time, the range of chest movement expands, lung capacity increases, and the minute ventilation (i.e. the amount of air breathed in 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. Enhance digestion

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.