Physical fitness is an essential part of everyday living. Physical fitness helps with the heart, lungs, and muscles as well other organs in the body to function well and helps with a long life span. Physical fitness also helps to control your weight. With plenty of exercise your body can control the amount of fat that builds up in the body and causes obesity. When you practice good health in your body you develop good bones, which is done by physical fitness. Physical fitness also helps to control the moods that you are in. After a great workout, it helps you to relax and feel great about yourself. Physical fitness helps to build stamina, give you energy, and strength.
During the preschool years children are learning many skills that help them to develop and grow. Physical fitness is one of the skills that can grow with the child. Children that exercise daily learn the importance of physical play. They also learn how to exercise. Exercise is a skill that is done daily but if not done correctly can cause harm to the body. The children will learn how to breathe during exercise and know how to do moderate, fast, slow, quick, high, low exercises. these words will help the child with opposites and positional words. Physical fitness also helps children to get to moving. Some children like to look at others play, but encouraging all children to participate helps every child to grow and develop.
Children that aren't involved in physical fitness are harming their minds as well as their bodies. Without physical fitness a child gains weight, gains self-esteem issues, and gain health concerns. Children that don't exercise are at risk for being obese. Obese children have lots of health concerns that take over their body and causes death to occur. The children also gain self-esteem issues. This come from being obese. A child that suffers from obesity is more likely to be left out when other children are at play. Children also are pressured by peer pressure and some children tend not to play with other children because of the way they look. Obese children are sometimes picked at by other children and this causes self-esteem in the child. Their have been many children over the years that have been diagnosed with heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, an other health concerns do to the way that their bodies are being taken care of. Physical fitness is one way that a child can help to prevent health concerns.
When adults get involved in the health concern of children they can help to manage the way children eat and exercise. Exercise is a good way to manage good health in children. By doing exercise activities with the children daily this helps to promote positive energy in the child. JumpRope for Heart and Start for Life are two great organizations that help children to stay physically fit as well as giving them incentives for promoting and doing exercises daily. An adult can do exercises with the children such as a marching band which develops gross motor skills. A marching bands help to teach the children to manipulate with more that one body part. they are marching and using instruments. They are also in a line so this teaches them how to follow directions. A marching band helps build muscles in the legs and get the blood flowing from the marching they are doing. Fine motor skills can be developed in exercise by cutting. Allowing a child to cut out shapes, lines, zigzags or other objects helps the child to build physical movement in the hands, wrist, and fingers.
Reading over several quotes this one made much sense of why we should exercise. "What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?"(Randy Glasbergen, Cartoonist) If you can't fit an hour a day into your schedule then 24 hours a day of death would be more pleasing for you. People have to choose to be alive or dead when it comes to your health. Some of us are dead with our health because we choose not to exercise. I feel the more we practice good the health the more it will become a part of our lives.
RESOURCES
http://www.functional-fitness-facts.com/why-is-physical-fitness-important.html
http://www.getkidsinaction.org/exercise/
http://www.exrx.net/Psychology/Quotes.html
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