How Exersice Helps With a Child's Development

For infants, young children and adolescents taking part in exercise, it can help with proper development of the skeleton and bones, muscles, joints and strength. High impact exercises that are performed safely and at the right intensity for the specific age groups can increase bone thickness, density and resistance, without having any effect on growth in length as long as the exercise performed is not too intense or involve too much high impact or weight bearing exercise. http://www.danoneinstitute.org/objective_nutrition_newsletter/on79.php When exercise is to intense and there is too much pressure being placed on the bones, cartilage, ligaments and tendons it can be harmful to a child's health and can affect growth rate. “High impact sports and the intense, repeated training that they require are likely to generate psychological competition stress and recurrent micro-trauma. This may be responsible for a temporary growth blockage in weight and height, due to upset neurohormonal regulations in the hypothalamus and the hypothesis” according to the (danoneinstitute). http://www.danoneinstitute.org/objective_nutrition_newsletter/on79.php Children have disproportionately long legs compared to the rest of their body meaning that there body is out of balance and this can therefore affect children’s coordination of limbs. Puberty begins at different at different ages for boys and girls. Puberty starts at 12 years old for girls and finishes at 16 years old and for boys puberty begins at 14 years old and finishes at 18 years old. The differences in physical attributes between boys and girls occur at puberty in response to changes in hormones produced by the body. For girls oestrogen is more prominent and for boys testosterone is more pr...

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...lls, girls perform better at locomotor skills and balance and body control”. In adolescence boys and girls can learn to do sports related movements at the same speed it just depends on the time and effort they put into their sports and whether or not they enjoy the sport they are doing, which has a huge impact on how well someone learns. Boys and girls learn spatial awareness, coordination and control at the same age between 7 years old and 13 years old and they rapidly learn these skills between 10 years old and 13 years old this can be through doing tasks like jump rope and multi directional forms of running, jumping and skipping and playing tig http://www.ukessays.com/essays/physical-education/developing-fundamental-movement-skills-physical-education-essay.php http://www.lebertfitness.com/Engage/YouthFitnessGuyBlog/tabid/325/post/Coordination/Default.aspx 5