Encourage your child to be interested in physical activities is good, but there is a limit
Encourage children and teenagers to start physical activity in a world that is increasingly digital can be a real challenge for parents. In the desire to make the screens leave the little ones, the doubt always arises on how to teach them how to exercise and make them “tastes for the thing”, since the limits and conditioning are different from an adult.
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Last Monday 21, the influencer and dancer Andressa Suita shared the stories of her Instagram profile The formation of her 8 -year -old son Gabriel. In a video, the boy appears by running on a treadmill at a moderate rhythm and is encouraged by his mother, who wrote: “He is paid. My athlete”.
Despite being a controversial problem, exercise should be encouraged among the little ones, according to the experts listened to by Earth. But slightly moderate and accompanied. Orientation applies to both aerobic and anaerobic practices.
The Brazilian company of Pediatrics (SBP) underlines that exercise improves the supply of oxygen and nutritional substances to the brain while increasing blood circulation in the body.
“Thinking about an 8 -year -old boy, such as the case, who already has a motor control already developed, this does not have a problematic relationship. But if we think for the benefit for the child, he will earn a more mature motor development with common games, such as playing snorts on the road. Physiotherapist, master in biomechanics and specialist in sport and dance from the unifest Flora Pitta.
The doctor also mentioned cases of parents who put children to start training in gyms, but without supervision or correct recommendation, as often seen on social networks. Although it is with low weights, there are many risks in practice.
“It has all the risks. When you start to train with the load, based on the weight that the training time, we must know how the body structure is as, in the case of the child, it is still forming. Performing two hours or five minutes can hurt an adult if it is not prepared for this. The same goes for the child,” he says.
“What will bring these benefits to the child is to socialize with other children, have physical activity such as swimming, football training … the parents who want to put their children to train, speak with the pediatrician, talk to a physiotherapist who understands the topic, who works on motor development”, says Pitta.
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