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Junior All Stars - Kids Gym Benefits
Activity is a normal part of growing up and plays a major part in helping your childs body grow with
good posture, strong bones and a strong healthy heart.
Exercise is just one specific type of activity, however, over recent decades it has become an
extremely important type when today’s growing children and teenagers have not had a sufficiently
active lifestyle.
Some of the generally benefits of exercise include:
- Improved self confidence
- Improved concentration
- Improved behaviour
- Better sleep patterns
- Feeling better about themselves
- Improved co-ordination
- Improved flexibility reducing the risk of injury
- Improved motor skills
- Social aspect of mixing with other children
Psychological Benefits
A large proportion of overweight children and adolescents suffer from social discrimination. This is often associated with low self esteem and depression. Physical exercise combined with associated improvements in fitness, strength ad body image can dramatically improve a child’s confidence, social interaction and self worth.
Specific Benefits of resistance training module
Resistance training has been scientifically proven to have huge benefits for children and pre-adolescents.
Research presented by the American College of Sports Medicine proves that regular controlled resistance training resulted in favourable body composition changes in overweight and obese children.
The following are just some of the additional benefits of resistance training.
- Increase in lean muscle
- Increased metabolism
- Increased immune system
- Greater fat burning potential
- Improved strength
- Improved bone density (reducing the risk of osteoporosis)
- Improved posture
Specific Benefits of cardiovascular module
Cardiovascular exercise is simply another form of running around and making the heart work to pump blood to various muscles around the body.
Regular cardiovascular exercise plays an important role in maintaining a healthy weight, increasing energy levels, and maintaining healthy brain function.
Other specific benefits include:
- Reduced risk of heart disease
- Body adaptation to use more fat as fuel
- Improved blood flow to the brain
- Improved circulation
- Reduced risk of cardiovascular disease
- Reduced risk of obesity
- Reduced risk of Type II Diabetes
