Positive Effects of Sport on Youth
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Positive Effects of Sport on Youth
Introduction
The growing concern today around the world is how young people are moving away from participating in sporting activities many young people today are shunning sporting activities despite this is healthy (sportengland.com, 2014). Youths who participate in sports are more active than those who do not participate in any sporting activity. Despite the growing popularity, some distractors are pulling down the number of youths who are active in sports. Despite distractors, there are more positive impacts sports on the individual. These include benefits on general health, benefits on mental health, and disciplinary benefits.
Sports consists of delegating to the body some of the strongest virtues of the soul: energy, daring, patience. Its the opposite of the disease – Jean Giraudoux. A study indicates that youth and young people who participated in the physical fit, such as sporting activity, can have long term cardiovascular befits in life (Ruiz et al., 2009). sport preventing severe diseases such as diabetes, cancer, hypertension, and obesity (sportanddev.org, 2020). A person who participated in sport can have a night of better sleep and sharp memory than a person who sits and never does any exercise or sporting activity.
Exercise also has great benefits for mental health. It releases endorphins that make you feel happy.- Michelle Davis. Sports reduces cases of mental health among youths. A study indicates that physical inactivity due to lack of sport can lead to mental health disorders among adolescents (Richards et al., 2014). Sports or any other form of physical exercise can improve mood and can lead to a positive impact on anxiety depression. Sport can make one happy to forget stressful situations or bad memories that can lead to depression.
Discipline is the bridge between your athletics goals and athletic success.-Felicity lucky. The last benefits of sport build an athletes character to achieve a greater thing and succeed in life. People who participate in the sport knows the importance of discipline as a key to their success (Gayatri, 2014). People, especially youth, who participated in the sport, will build a lifetime sense of discipline.
In conclusion, benefits accrued to sport include better physical and mental health. Other benefits of sport include discipline among the youth. Youths who participated in a sporting activity are healthy and can live for a long. Adolescents who do through exercise through training cannot quickly get heart-related diseases. Sport can also relieve one from stress and often lead to sound sleep.
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Gayatri. (2014). Participating in team sports help to develop good character. International Journal of Physical Education Sports Management And Yogic Sciences, 4(1), 60. https://doi.org/10.5958/j.2278-795x.4.1.015
Richards, J., Foster, C., Townsend, N., & Bauman, A. (2020). Physical fitness and mental health impact of a sport-for-development intervention in a post-conflict setting: randomised controlled trial nested within an observational study of adolescents in Gulu, Uganda. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/. Retrieved 21 September 2020, from.
Ruiz, J., J, C., & EG, A. (2009). YRBSS | Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System | Data | Adolescent and School Health | CDC. Cdc.gov. Retrieved 21 September 2020, from http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/pdf/yrbs07_us_overview.pdf.
sportanddev.org. (2020). Sport and health | sportanddev.org. Sportanddev.org. Retrieved 21 September 2020, from https://www.sportanddev.org/en/learn-more/sport-and-health.
Sportengland.com. (2014). The challenge of growing youth participation in sport. Youth Insights Pack. Retrieved 21 September 2020, from https://sportengland-production-files.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/youth-insight-pack.pdf?9viMHu6EyE_eJoO1KslRqkukou_P3dZV.
