How to choose the sports section for children
Tips Educational Program / / December 19, 2019
Every parent wants to see their child not only smart, but also healthy. Therefore, sooner or later he asks himself a reasonable question about the appropriate sports section. To classes were really good, and not harm, several factors must be considered when choosing a discipline.
1. Age
The Russian SanPiNsMINIMUM AGE OF ADMISSION OF CHILDREN IN SPORTS SCHOOLS BY SPORT spelled out the following recommendations on the minimum age of admission of children to sports clubs:
- 6 years - gymnastics (female), figure skating, gymnastics.
- 7 years - acrobatics, aerobics, tennis, table tennis, gymnastics (boys), darts, swimming, diving and water trampoline, rock and roll, synchronized swimming, sports dance, martial arts, Freestyle, chess, checkers, shaping.
- 8 years - badminton, basketball, biathlon, golf, skiing, orienteering, sports tourism, football.
- 9 years - baseball, water polo, volleyball, handball, ice skating and sailing, athletics, cross country skiing, ski jumping, rugby, softball, hockey, short track. And - surprise - towns and rounders.
- 10 years - Arm Wrestling, boxing, Wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman), cycling, rowing, judo, equestrian and luge, contact karate, shooting, weightlifting, pentathlon, sambo, rock climbing, triathlon, taekwondo, weightlifting, fencing.
- 11 years - archery, clay pigeon shooting.
- 12 years - in bobsledding.
Age norms in sport are estimated.
Some children on the physical development ahead of peers for 2-3 years and can start training early.
But in addition to the state sports schools where grown champions, there are plenty of private clubs and sections, which are recorded at any age - almost from the cradle. If your goal is not a medal, namely the harmonious development and health, adhere to the following age Gajda, which is based on the advice of coaches and doctors.
4-5 years
At this age, children are able to master many basic movement, but it is difficult to concentrate and work methodically stunning technique. Most suitable for preschoolers will restorative exercises that will help get to know your body and learn how to manage it.
For these purposes, good swimming, run, Jumps and somersaults, climbing, lightweight versions of aikido and taekwondo. Excellent, if I can switch between different types of physical activity.
Let's say your child (and not you) like figure skating, gymnastics or dance. In these sections the best recorded earlier. Bundles children more flexible, so it is easier to develop the necessary flexibility and plasticity.
But playing football or hockey to 6 years is not recommended - the athlete is not yet strong enough ankle.
6-9 years
At this age, children are long enough to hold the attention, they are more coordinated and performed better coach than preschoolers. Therefore, look at the track and field, martial arts, team sports.
But with tennis is better not to hurry - let the child get stronger spin. Upon impact at the tennis player strongly curled upper spine. And if the muscles and ligaments are not sufficiently developed, training on the court is likely to lead to right-hand scoliosis. Start with badminton, which develops well, and the reaction rate, but less travmoopasen and does not require such a shock force.
The main thing is not to overdo it with loads: training six times a week for 2-3 hours - the test is not for everyone. Chronic fatigue is not conducive to health promotion, and vice versa, leading to muscle weakness, decreased tone and posture violation.
10-12 years
Children 10 years old is already capable of thinking strategically and begin to more consciously to play football, basketball or volleyball. Many boys grow up to hockey: it is easier to move around the field in a fairly heavy gear.
After 10 when strengthened narosli back and muscles, the child is physiologically ready to be engaged in boxing, wrestling and power sports. Also becoming available subjects with traumatic equipment: cycle racing, Fencing, archery, horse riding.
At this age, you can start serious training and work on the result. But remember that the load and the risk of injuries in professional sports is several times higher than in the amateur.
2. Health status
Before join the sports section, it is desirable to consult a pediatrician. Especially if the child has a health problem. The doctor will tell you what exercises to help them adjust and which, on the contrary, exacerbate.
No health restrictions in table tennis, martial arts, horse riding.
And, for example, myopicCONTRAINDICATIONS FOR SPORTS will not do team sports (football, hockey, volleyball, basketball), boxing, wrestling, weightlifting.
Cardiovascular disease - a serious obstacleContraindications in sporting activities for children for mountain skiing and cross-country skiing, ice hockey, judo. A stomach ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer may exacerbate gambling training and tennis.
Children with chronic diseases of the respiratory tract organs contraindicated winter sports (ice hockey, skiing, figure skating), as well as swimming.
But a child with scoliosis, stoop, flat feet or other disorders of the musculoskeletal system pool, on the contrary, will benefit. Generally swimming - optimal activity at a variety of disorders, myopia, and diabetes to gastritis and obesity.
3. physique
Sometimes caring fathers and mothers give a child in a certain section that he's grown up, lost weight or something else "has changed for the better." For example, large athletic girl lead to figure skating or gymnastics, Shorty - Basketball and clumsy plump boy is recorded in the section where especially appreciated speed and agility.
Not the fact that the purpose of the parents will be achieved. But almost certainly the child feels humiliated, do not get pleasure from activities and nazhivot complexes.
If student problems overweight, Give it to swimming, martial arts or hockey, where large size can be an advantage. Tall children with open arms to take on the volleyball or basketball, even if they are not too nimble and agile. Low will be happy to gymnastics and acrobatics.
4. Temperament
To exercise does not become a torture, you must take into account the type of temperament.
choleric
Active, extremely mobile and susceptible children with an instant reaction usually feel comfortable in a team sports game. Agility and explosive nature useful in basketball, football, volleyball.
sanguine
It wagons that adapt to any sport. They are friendly, they know how to resolve conflicts in the team, gambling, although for the purposes sanguine sometimes lack patience. Under the supervision of an experienced coach with child temperament obey as command and solitary sports where you can express themselves clearly: fencing, climbing, tennis, boxing.
phlegmatic
Slow, calm and consistent children cope better than others with monotonous endurance training. This innate long-distance runners, velomarafontsy, skiers and weightlifters.
melancholic
These children are characterized by heightened emotionality and sensitivity on the background of the closure. As a rule, they take hard defeat, so they fit classes, where there is a passion for sport and competition. Amateur gymnastics, dancing, yoga, Horse riding, not only contribute to physical development, but also a beneficial effect on the nervous system.
4. Expenditure on employment
When you select a section of the need to take into account your financial possibilities. Some studies quite costly. Impressive investments require tennis, hockey, skiing and horse riding. This rental sites and payment of individual training and expensive equipment.
For example, the cost of outfitting the young conqueror of the slopes is 1000 dollars. A set of forms, and the protection of young hockey players - $ 300. Add sticks, which cost $ 100 and is constantly broken. Note also that the equipment you need to buy every year - because your child grows.
Much cheaper will cost the same badminton, football, basketball and athletics.
5. Personal preferences of the child
In fact, it is the main factor. Let your child try their hand at different kinds of activity, and will decide what fits him best. Many sports clubs first training free. This is a convenient feature that allows you to consider a few options - and to give children the right to choose.
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