Title The world has come a long way from fighting to the death for a scrap of food, but child athletics is quickly becoming primitive. Imagine the scrap of food as a Division I college scholarship, and the parents are fighting to the death to get their child to the top. There will be few professional athletes, but there are millions of children involved in youth athletics. Along the way to the top, someone has to be left behind, and the course is littered with former athletes struggling with physical and mental health issues. It is similar to the things one would watch in popular movies, like The Hunger Games. Only one child gets to be the champion. In 2000, a Boston father was charged with manslaughter after he recklessly assaulted the …show more content…
They can see what their body is capable of doing; athletes do small things to help their level of play which can also help their overall fitness. These small things will become daily habits. Sports are a tremendous way to stay active everyday; Sports offer tremendous stress-relief for youth athletes. “During exams, Duke University opens its gyms twenty-four hours a day to provide stress relief for its students” (Watkins 13). A good practice can change the course of a bad day. Also, kids can feel satisfaction and accomplishment through mastery of a specific skill. It’s an immediate gratification when an athlete finally fixes what they were struggling to do. They can see the changes in their performance as it is …show more content…
Growth sites are on the ends of longer bones and involve joints like the knee or elbow. Common growth site injuries include: runner’s knee, jumper’s knee, Achilles tendonitis, and shin splints. In some rare cases the growth plate will stop growing completely. Young, girl runners are at a risk for the female athlete triad. The female athlete triad includes disordered eating in the runner. Running stresses a lifestyle that needs a specific diet to keep the runner in good health. Disordered eating is also likely to occur in young gymnast going through puberty. During puberty a young lady’s center of gravity can change making tricks that were easy before seem nearly impossible. In order to stay smaller, the gymnast will lower their intake of food. Runners tend to want to stay skinnier and this pressure may cause them to restrict their nutrition. This lowered intake of nutrients will cause the second factor of the female athlete triad. Puberty is an important time for a girl’s bones to grow. By lowering the nutrients that a girl is receiving, the bones become fragile and can cause early osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is the weakening of bones and is normally thought to be a condition for only older women, but some extreme runners have been known to get osteoporosis during their twenties. Runner’s bone are so fragile that they may suddenly break and stress fractures are much more
According to the Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Review’s article on the female athlete triad, in the past forty years, American women have become increasingly involved in athletics as a result of laws allowing them to participate in sports. (Lebrun and Rumball) For instance, Cathy Rigby won eight Olympic gold medals in gymnastics during the ‘60’s and 70’s when these laws were just coming into effect. (Brunet) Nevertheless, there is an ugly hidden underbelly to the many benefits of women’s increased participation in sports. Many sports have very high standards for body image, which has led to the increasing prevalence of three “separate… but interrelated conditions” collectively known as the female athlete triad. (Lebrun and Rumball) Despite Cathy Rigby’s aforementioned success, an article by Dr. Michael Brunet reveals that she was severely affected by the most well-known of the female athlete triad: the eating disorder. This eventually caused her to suffer cardiac arrest twice. (Brunet) These effects are not limited to elite athletes, however; high school athletes are also affected by the triad, particularly those participating in sports “in which leanness is perceived to optimize performance” or which use “specific weight categories.” (Lebrun) The three components of the triad, osteoporosis, amenorrhea, and disordered eating, are increasingly becoming an unfortunate effect of distorted body image on sports.
The number of girls and women participating in all levels of sports has risen greatly in recent years, and the way they play has changed too. Women's sports used to be played by a slow defensive style. Today, the sports are played with speed, precision, and power. With these changes have come increased injuries, and female athletes have higher injury rates than men in many sports. Knee injuries have been rising in female sports. Anterior crutiate ligament (ACL) injuries have become the most common injury in the knee to female athletes. Females are four times more susceptible to injury then men.
...is reducing food intake. When the young gymnasts restrict their diet, they do not realize how they are harming their body and how much danger they are putting it in. http://www.examiner.com/article/osteopenia-eating-disorders-and-teens also says, that once you have lowered your bone mineral density there in no way that you can get it back. This means that when you are classified with osteoporosis, you will always have it and there is no way that you can go back to having strong bone mineral density, and your body will be prone to fractures for the rest of your life. This disease makes your body very weak and fragile, which is opposite from a gymnasts ultimate goal of having a muscular and strong body. Overall, the “Female Athlete Triad” is a very serious condition, and it puts gymnasts bodies in a great amount of danger for injuries, or later in life complications.
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Sports are a popular pastime among all ages and types of people. People not only participate in them for fun, but also for money, physical fitness, rush of competition, and for many other personal reasons. Playing sports is especially common among young people in schools. Athletics are great and enjoyable for many reasons, but there can be a point where sports participation can go too far and become negative for children and adults. Sports specialization for young people is an increasing trend that results in sports having a negative impact on individuals and society.
The discrepancies in media coverage in coverage of female and children athletics have large gaps, but are gaining momentum in sharing equality. Major athletic leagues such as the NBA and FIFA World Cup have wide gaps in marketing and ratings for their male and female athletes. Children are future athletes and superstars, but as funding and coverage in athletics catering to the males, women are breaking the barriers to be in the spotlight of sport. Both gender contribute equally to athletics, and challenge the each other to accept new ideas and change. The sports world that has a single gender dominating the media is unjust. Society does not want to bored, we need change in sports entertainment to cater to all. Not all parents and teachers are available to educate our children about the concepts of sharing and teamwork, our children are growing up learning key concepts through media. I will discuss these concepts and how they intertwine.
Young athletes put in danger by the competition, aggressiveness, and intensity of sports. Kids everyday are being pushed past limits by coaches parents and fans. The intensity of sports has become so high they are causing mental and physical exhaustion. Sports like wrestling has kids eat different to either lose gain weight. Football player, Baseball player, and even cheerleader have to work out in extreme temperatures. Some kids involved in competitive sports have been taking weight lifting classes and even just conditioning. The youth are being put in danger due to how competitive, aggressive, and intense youth sports have become.
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Collegiate athletes spend multiple hours training to perfect their craft. Majority of colleges include training twice a day, one in the morning before an individual’s class and one after. More than 190,000 women are registered under the NCAA (Shriver, Betts & Wollenberg 2013). Shriver, Betts & Wollenberg (2013) conducted a study to determine if these female collegiate athletes are properly nourished for the amount of workload their body endures through rigorous and tiresome training. The female athletes in their study failed to meet their minimum energy and carbohydrate needs and also failed to follow basic sports nutrition guidelines. Majority of amateur level athletes have a variety of misconceptions regarding nutrition. Both malnourishment and over-nourishment can have a negative impact on an athletes’ performance (Webber, 2015). Specifically, athletes who participate in weight conscious sports may be the key beneficiaries with proper education in nutrition. For example, wrestlers, cross country runner and cyclists all need to be conscious of their weight in order to have the best possible chance in succeeding in their sport. Therefore, education throughout the high school level or proper care from staff should be the main focus for athletes. Abood, Black & Birnbaum (2004) conducted a study that involved athletes and an education of nutrition through an 8
Apart from injuries to bones, ligaments, muscles, and joints, other effects, both good and bad, result from participation gymnastics. Early Osteoporosis, delayed menstruation, and eating disorders are some effects consistently found in female gymnast (Gianoulis 2). Aside from internal effects, over eighty-six thousand injuries are medically treated each year (Prevention and Treatment 1). These injuries often result from constant use, resulting in overstress...
Playing a sport whether its basketball, soccer, football or any other of your interest can be thrilling, and accelerating. Not only can it be fun yet physical exercise is good for the mind, body, and spirit. Therefore, as an athlete one must keep in mind that playing any sport, injury is part of life and inevitable. Research has proven from time to time that severe injuries in sports can trigger psychological mental health issues, affecting them in their athletic performance.
One of the positives of youth participation in sports is that it is an effective way of children making new friends and developing social skills. Sports teams provide an introduction for children to talk to other children with whom they may not talk normally. This is a huge opportunity for overweight children that might not socialize with others very often. As Ann Rosewater – a spokeswoman for the organization Up2Us – puts it, “overweight children have reported that the best part of organized sports is making new friends” (13). Teamwork can create a strong bond between athletes who compete together. Working toward a common goal gives children a reason to become good friends in an attempt to reach their endeavor of winning. They learn to help other children when they see them having a tough time and learn to offer words of encouragement to them (Harle par. 3). Children are given a sense of camaraderie by playing a sport with peers and that sense can become so strong that they will go as far as considering each other a second family....
Sports programs have been an integral part of all schools. They support the academics of the school and therefore foster success in life. These programs are educational and help produce productive citizenship. They help students experience and build skills that may help them in their future, like interpersonal and time management skills. Education may kindle the light of knowledge, but sports help to maintain the proper physique. Sports are also an important means of entertainment and a use for energy after long hours of study. Sports increase a student’s performance not only in the classroom but also in their life.
Life is full of troubles, demands, pressures and hassles—these are all factors related to stress. Stress is a state of mental or emotional tension resulting from adverse or difficult situations (Merriam-Webster). When you are in potential danger, your body responds with a “fight-or-flight” response to protect you from any harm. Situations like being robbed at gunpoint or studying last minute the night before the test can activate stress in your body. Although situations in life can increase stress, there are plenty of methods to diminish it. Methods like meditating, talking to family/friends, drinking tea, or even taking a quick nap--all of these methods are proven effective (The Franklin Institute). One method that is prominent to many is physical exercise. Exercise is considered to improve physical conditions and strength, but maintains mental fitness in the process. Although many assume that exercising is healthy, some may not be familiar of how it relieves stress in detail. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of exercise, the pros and cons must be considered. Some pros are: managing the levels of stress in your body, boosting your self-esteem, and improving learning and memory. The cons are: being time consuming and tedious, being costly and expensive, and risking injury while exercising. Let’s look at the pros of physical activity.
The main goals behind Sport Education are to help students become knowledgeable about different sports and activities to the point where they can participate in these outside of the classroom to stay active. Also it teaches execution and strategies and encourages competitiveness. It is important for kids to be competitive because they will have to be in life and it will teach the importance of winning and losing the right way. “Sports offer kids a great chance to work cooperatively toward a common goal. And working coope...