Trampolines, rock climbing... Children's sports are adults beware of "rushing" and not reflexing

Children's body anatomy and development characteristics are different from adults, so when carrying out physical exercise, parents should start from the actual situation of the child's body, choose a suitable sports program, and let the child carry out scientific exercise under the guidance of professionals in order to receive good results.

——Li Qingwen, Professor, School of Social Sports and Health Sciences, Tianjin University of Physical Education

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The first winter vacation of the "double reduction" policy, sports training classes are very popular, many training institutions have launched some adult children's sports projects, such as children's trampoline, children's rock climbing, children's parkour, etc., these projects have been welcomed by some parents, some parents do not hesitate to pay thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan of training fees.

In this regard, Li Qingwen, a professor at the School of Social Sports and Health Sciences of Tianjin University of Physical Education, said that the anatomy and development characteristics of children are different from those of adults, so when exercising physically, parents should start from the actual situation of children's bodies, choose suitable sports projects, and let children carry out scientific exercise under the guidance of professionals in order to receive good results.

Children involved in the "net red" movement have been injured repeatedly

On the network search engine, enter keywords such as "children's rock climbing", "children's trampoline", "children's parkour", etc., and many training advertisements will jump out.

"Rock climbing can improve the softness and coordination of the body", "Parkour is a fashion extreme sport that is popular all over the world", "Trampoline is an excellent tool to expand children's thinking"... These "high-end, atmospheric, high-grade" promotional words have made many parents think it is particularly cool for their children to try these sports.

On video websites and in the circle of friends, there are also frequent photos and videos of children participating in these sports training and competitions. "4-year-old child challenges 12-meter-high professional climbing wall" "4-year-old boy trampoline successfully does a front flip"... Videos are popular online, parents' comments in the comments section are a chorus of praise, and the younger the children, the more attention and comments they receive.

There are also some parents who believe that only by practicing "Tong Zi Gong" can their children not lose at the starting line.

As more and more young children participate in these trainings, reports of sports injuries in children have gradually increased, such as "meniscus tear caused by 9-year-old children practicing Latin dance for 5 years" and "6-year-old children training parkour caused calf fractures".

Cao Jiangang, chief physician of the Department of Sports Injury and Arthroscopy of Tianjin Hospital, said that children with triple injuries to the meniscal ligament of the knee joint due to trampoline exercises often come to the doctor. Children's joint capsules are relatively loose, and the balance ability is very poor, especially in preschool children, it is particularly easy to hurt the knee joint and other parts during strenuous exercise.

Children's sports should not be prematurely adultized

Needless to say, physical activity is essential for children's development. Children are in the growth and development period, the body metabolism is vigorous, and the body functions have great development potential and plasticity. Regular participation in physical exercise contributes to the strengthening of children's and adolescents' physique and the shaping of their willpower.

"However, children's physical exercise programs should not be prematurely adultized, children have their growth and development laws, their growth and development has the characteristics of continuity, programmability, imbalance and interrelatedness, and there are also individual differences." Li Qingwen said.

"Compared with adults, children's bones have more water and organic matter, less inorganic salts (calcium phosphate, calcium carbonate), so they are elastic and not easy to fracture, but the bones are less hard and easily deformed. Children have more muscle water content, less protein, fat, inorganic salt, muscle tenderness, compared with adults, weak contractility, poor endurance, easy fatigue. Children's articular surface cartilage is relatively thick, the flexibility and flexibility are better than adults, but the firmness is relatively poor, and it is easier to dislocate under the action of external forces. Li Qingwen said.

Li Qingwen said that the muscles in different positions of children's bodies have different degrees of development. In the trampoline, parkour, which is a sport that requires high churning technology, it is necessary to use muscles in many parts of the body, if the muscle strength can not keep up, it is easy to cause knee, elbow and ankle joint damage, a little careless, but also cause fractures, so it is not suitable for children to participate.

"In addition, children of different ages have different sports intensity, content, etc." Li Qingwen introduced, for example, children should not carry out high-intensity strength training too early, otherwise it is easy to cause epiphyseal cartilage damage.

Seize the sensitive period to make your workout more effective

"As a parent, you should first encourage your children to exercise more and promote their healthy growth." Li Qingwen pointed out that at the same time, parents should also understand the law of their children's growth and development, and help them choose suitable sports according to their children's age stage and characteristics.

"There are sensitive periods for children's growth and development, which is also known as the critical period." Li Qingwen said that the development of almost every kind of sports quality has a relatively fast period, seize the sensitive period of the development of a certain sports quality, and train according to the situation, we can develop this quality faster, so as to achieve the effect of doubling the results with half the effort.

In the early stages of early childhood (1 to 3 years old) and early childhood (3 to 6 years old), comprehensive physical exercise should be emphasized, so it is more suitable for physical exercise.

Li Qingwen introduced that children's physical exercise is a training program developed in recent years, it will design movement patterns according to different stages of development, which can improve children's athletic performance, promote children's physical health, prevent children's posture abnormalities in the process of growth and development (such as scoliosis, etc.), and also cultivate children's sports interests and habits.

Children's physical training is generally based on the age group (starting from 3 years old, every 1 to 1.5 years old, to 12 years old) to design sports content, and some training institutions can accept children at least 2.5 years old to participate in physical training.

Younger children can only perform simple coordination and balance exercises (such as crawling, etc.) or participate in group games with their bare hands. The physical training course at this stage of 3 to 6 years old will gradually begin to carry out comprehensive exercises, such as nerve mobilization ability, sensitive coordination ability, muscle strength and explosive power, etc., mainly based on basic movement mode exercises and motor skill exercises.

For children aged 3 to 6, there are some specialized introductory exercises. For example, children between the ages of 4 and 5 can begin to be exposed to rackets, basic dribbling, etc. in ball sports.

"Generally do not advocate children from 3 to 6 years old to exercise mainly with special exercises, one-sided pursuit of individual training results, ignoring the characteristics of physical development." If the intensity of training is too large, resulting in the body can not adapt and injuries, it will affect the growth and development of children and healthy growth. Li Qingwen said that the development of one aspect of the child's body cannot be ignored for the development of another aspect, which is not in line with the law of children's growth and development.

Children over the age of 6 can choose more sports, especially after primary school, you can combine the physical test report, targeted exercises, and choose special exercises according to the characteristics of children's physical fitness. "When parents choose special exercises, they should also look at their children's interests and hobbies, and pay attention to specific exercise environment conditions, coach qualifications, etc., for comprehensive consideration." Li Qingwen reminded.

(Science and Technology Daily reporter Chen Xi)