Project on Benefits of Exercise and Activities for Children's Health

This project delves into the significant advantages of regular exercise for children's health and overall well-being. It highlights how physical activity strengthens bones and muscles, aids in weight control, improves mental health, boosts self-esteem, and offers opportunities for socialization. The project emphasizes the importance of parental encouragement and the availability of fun, age-appropriate exercises. It also provides examples of suitable activities for different age groups, including playing with blocks (0-7 years), swimming (0-7 years), and yoga (13+ years). Each activity is described with equipment needed and the benefits it provides, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of how to promote a healthy lifestyle for children through exercise. The document concludes by stressing the need for supervision and the long-term health benefits associated with consistent physical activity.

Project 12

Table of Contents
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Explaining benefits of exercise for children health and well-being ...........................................3
Planning three activities for children's to exercise which cover different age ranges ................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

MAIN BODY
Explaining benefits of exercise for children health and well-being
Exercise for children's are very good as it helps them to remain fit for long period. Also,
doing the best exercises on regular basis helps the children in increasing the overall
concentration level and improves the overall academic scores. Furthermore, in recent times it
was found out that children health and well-being are two important concepts as the overall
development among them for future relies on that (Zang, 2019). Also, some other benefits of
performing different exercise by the children is been described as follows:
Strengthens children's bones and muscles: Very young age children development is
proper when bones and muscles are strong enough. Furthermore, through performing various
activities in day children becomes very active and build stamina to carry out various tasks in a
day. Moreover, through exercise the children would be able to maintain balance, improve
postures and develop greater flexibility so that various risk of the diseases could be avoided that
could happen in the future while growing.
Help control weight: Children age is where they are quite fascinated in eating lot of the
junk and fried foods that are harmful for the health. Also, they usually indulge in excessive
eating that might results in creating lot of health problem like obesity (Driscoll and et.al., 2019).
Thus, being obese in early age is not good as it is major risk for creating various health
problems and impacts the well-being in negative manner. Hence, practising exercise such as
jumping, playing and other things helps children to control weight and remain fit for longer
time frame.
Help in improving mental health: As children's are quite good at learning new things
in quick and efficient manner. Thus, doing various exercises on daily basis would help them to
improve the current state of mental well-being so that they are able to gain additional
knowledge from external environment easily (Stillman and et.al., 2020). Moreover, having good
mental well-being would allow them to continuously think and learn on observing various
things. Furthermore, mental well-being would help children to develop certain skills that are
very essential for their overall growth and development in the future.
Improve self-esteem: Also, it is been found that exercising on daily basis would allow in
enhancing and improving the self-esteem of children that tends to become something in the
future. Also, through performing various exercise on regular basis children's would become

smart enough to handle various challenging tasks through positive approach. Also, they would
tend to think and identify solutions to various problems on their own that would help to result in
better academic scores in the future.
Opportunities to socialize: It is known that those children that perform certain exercise
on daily basis have better opportunities to socialize with other people of the same or different
age groups (Maggio and Silva, 2021). Thus, exercising is platform that allows them to meet new
people and exchange the ideas and thoughts that could be applied anywhere in the future
learning. Thus, exercise serves dual benefits to children of different age groups to learn and
acquire as well as remain fit for longer time frame.
Thus, it can be said in the end that exercising is way through which children become
aware and improves way of living their daily lives. Moreover, through performing variety of
exercises children could ensure that they avoid doing things that are harmful for their health in
any form by their own (Calcaterra and et.al., 2022). Also, there are number of activities that are
existing that could be performed by different age groups depending upon the time available
and current requirement of the children. Also, all these exercises that are been performed needs
close supervision and monitoring so that there is no wastage of efforts and also it does not create
other body problems within the children if in case wrongly performed.
However, the benefits of exercise could be only derived when the parents of children
encourage them to participate in various activities that are essential for their own personal
development. Also, nowadays there are various fun ways of doing certain exercise which will
not make the children feel bored and thus this way they will enjoy a lot in completing certain
exercises on time. Moreover, the amount of exercise the children could perform in the day
depends on his/ her age and therefore the benefits derived out of it would also totally depend
upon it. Also, remaining inactive for whole day would not help the children to build the
resistance that is very much-needed in every phase of lives. Moreover, through such exercises
the children would be able to develop the heart which is very impotent for supplying blood to
various parts of the body. Also, exercise helps in development of lungs that further helps in
enabling oxygen get into the blood. Further, lack of exercise would disturb the overall lee pattern
of the children and would impact their daily diets. Thus, if such situation happens than it would
cause negative impact on the overall growth of child at early stage and would cause several
diseases.

Planning three activities for children's to exercise which cover different age ranges
Children have option to perform variety of activities during the day but it totally again
depends upon the age groups which activities to be performed. Some activities that been
described based on the age groups are as follows:
Age groups 0-7 years
Activity: Playing with blocks
Equipments: different types of block, play areas, play mat
The above activity could be played within the groups of 5 or more where each child
would be provided with certain types of block through which using their mind skills they could
develop various things. Moreover, this activity is best for this age group as this would help in
becoming them more self-reliant and increase the level of attention within them which is
necessary for achieving various things (Theophanous and et.al., 2018). Also, this activity would
allow this age group to develop the required amount of self-esteem that is necessary initially.
Furthermore, this exercise is a great way of developing the fine motor and language skills as it
would allow them to communicate with others and showcase their level of creativity existing
within them. Also, such kind of activity is totally appropriate for this age group as it would help
in the overall development of the children in systematic manner. Furthermore, it is quite
appropriate as very small age groups of children finds difficulty in walking and doing lot of
physical activity. Thus, this exercise would help them in the overall mental development that is
good in such growing years.
Age groups 0-7 years
Activity: Swimming
Equipments: Swimming pool and costume, trainer, swimming glasses, dress
The swimming activity could be carried out by this particular age groups as under this
age the children are very active and physically well-developed to understand certain things
around them. Also, this activity is very good and would be carried out on individually or in pairs
and would help them to improve the flexibility and provide them the best way to cool down in
very hot day. Moreover, this exercise is very efficient in reducing the overall stress among the
children and help them to build the immense amount of confidence to carry out certain work in
day in best of manner. Also, it is the best way through which children could remain fit and

thus it is healthy activity that would count in positive manner over the years (Exercise for
children and young people, 2021). Also, this activity is very useful as it has various physical and
mental health benefits that would provide benefits over the lifetime. Furthermore, there are
various styles that could be given to the children for this age groups such as breaststroke,
backstroke, sidestroke and much more. Hence, through carrying out all such activities the
children would feel relax and good. Also, through this activity the children of this age groups
would be able to develop the competitive sprit that would allow them to face the challenging
tasks in the future through positive approach. Thus, these activities are age appropriate as at this
age children would be able to develop good endurance, muscle strength and ensure
cardiovascular fitness. Also, such kind of similar kind of the activities like running, jumping and
climbing would also serve the best results for such age group children
Age groups 0-7 years
Activity: Yoga
Equipments: yoga mat, outdoor place or room
Under this activity the children that are aged above 13 years would be kept into small
groups of ten where they would be asked to perform various types of yoga that is considered
very good form of meditation. Furthermore, there are various type of yoga forms that would
help in ensuring greater flexibility and improve the concentration level that is very much
required in achieving various goals in life. Also, certain type of yoga forms like power yoga, yin
yoga, hatha yoga etc. could be prcaticed on daily basis so that best development is achieved for
this age groups in coming years. Moreover, such exercise for this age group is totally
appropriate as it would help in increasing the overall strength and reduce the anxiety level that
is caused due to several reasons. Furthermore, this is the best way for children to boost their
immunity level as it could be used in many useful areas where required. Thus, performing
various exercises would allow in improving the quality of life and help in building greater
metabolism so that various disease could be fight in the best of manner in the future

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Calcaterra, V. and et.al., 2022. Use of Physical Activity and Exercise to Reduce Inflammation in
Children and Adolescents with Obesity. International Journal of Environmental Research
and Public Health. 19(11). p.6908.
Driscoll, S. W. and et.al., 2019. Exercise in children with disabilities. Current Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation Reports. 7(1). pp.46-55.
Maggio, C. A. and Silva, G. V., 2021. Exercise in Children with Medical Complexity: A Need
for Individualised Training. In Exercise and Respiratory Diseases in Paediatrics (pp. 174-
203). Routledge.
Stillman, C. M. and et.al., 2020. Effects of exercise on brain and cognition across age groups and
health states. Trends in neurosciences. 43(7). pp.533-543.
Theophanous, C. and et.al., 2018. Myopia prevalence and risk factors in children. Clinical
ophthalmology (Auckland, NZ). 12. p.1581.
Zang, Y., 2019. Impact of physical exercise on children with attention deficit hyperactivity
disorders: Evidence through a meta-analysis. Medicine. 98(46).
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Exercise for children and young people. 2021. [Online]. Available
through:<https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/conditions-and-treatments/general-health-advice/leading-
active-lifestyle/exercise-children-and-young-people/>.