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Apostol Andrei

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THEME: SPORT FOR HEALTHY LIFE

Teacher: Student:
Fanareanu Beatrice Ghidia Florentina
 SPORTS FOR A HEALTHY LIFE

Whether it’s a pickup game of basketball or an organized water polo

league, playing sports can make you healthier and happier because of the
physical activity involved. Playing sports contributes to muscle development,
coordination, cardiovascular health and numerous other benefits associated
with disease prevention; physical activity can help ward of chronic diseases
including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, obesity,
depression and osteoporosis, according to Sport and Development.org.

Importance of Sports to Health

Whether it’s a pickup game of basketball or an organized water polo

league, playing sports can make you healthier and happier because of the
physical activity involved. Playing sports contributes to muscle development,
coordination, cardiovascular health and numerous other benefits associated
with disease prevention; physical activity can help ward of chronic diseases
including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cancer, hypertension, obesity,
depression and osteoporosis, according to Sport and Development.org.

Sports and Special Populations

Playing sports can help children develop healthy bones, stronger

cardiovascular systems and powerful lungs, according to Sport and
Development.org. Child athletes also develop motor skills and cognitive skills.
Being physically active as a child makes it more likely to continue playing
sports as an adult, promoting lifelong health, according to the United Nations.
Among women, sports can help prevent osteoporosis and hip fractures. Older
citizens who play sports have opportunities to keep their bodies moving, feel
independent and socialize with others in a healthy way.

Getting Physical

Playing sports can help people achieve fitness goals related to weight
loss, muscle development and fat reduction because of the physical activity
involved. Children who play sports are less likely to experience childhood
obesity. Physical activity is associated with hormone regulation and
strengthening the immune system, according to True Sport.org.
In the Body, In the Mind

It’s not just your body that benefits from sports. Playing sports
contributes to mental health, helping to prevent depression and increase self-
esteem and body image, according to Sport and Development.org. Individuals
who participate in sports might also benefit from the social aspect, developing
friendships with teammates and feeling part of a group. Children can learn
positive mental health skills including accountability, leadership and
dedication, according to the University of Missouri Children’s Hospital.
Playing sports is a key strategy for reducing stress, because your body releases
feel-good endorphins while exercising.

Different Sports, Different Benefits

Some sports are associated with particular health advantages. For

example, bowling can help achieve greater bone density because of the frequent
heavy lifting, according to the Mother Nature Network. Fencing might help
ward off cognitive decline, given the complex thinking associated with this
sport. People who play volleyball benefit from increased hand-eye coordination
and flexibility. Ping-pong also helps players increase hand-eye coordination,
while also promoting better brain health because of the fast thinking involved.

It’s a Lifestyle Thing

Another reason that sports are important for health is that participating in
sports can encourage positive lifestyle decisions. For example, if you belong to
a recreational rugby league, you might spend your evenings and weekends
practicing with your team rather than stopping for a cocktail after work or
ordering greasy happy hour food.

Sport was known as part of exercise where most people used to stay in
healthy lifestyle. Exercise is the body’s physical exertion. The main funtcion of
exercise is to achieve a higher level of fitness and health, for both physically
and mentally. Sport is an competitive,organized, skillful, and entertaining
physical activity. To be the winner, the player requiring commitment, strategy,
and fair play that can be defined by objective means. Sport was divided into few
categories where it divided into different categories age and gender. This
arrangement usually helps them in order to give a comfortable exercise to
certain people.
 There will be not a old man are doing heavy exercise like going gym. Of
course only to those who young want who they are full energetic. Human being
will destroys the good condition for lack of activity, to save it and preserve it
do some movement and methodical physical exercise. Sport exercise gives so
many health advantages to people who take advantage from it. Participating one
on physical activities can add further years into yourself, and the more you will
exercise, the more benefits that you get. You will also get to avoid health
diseases and also delay our death when you regularly engage yourself upon
physical activities as well as sport exercise.

Light sport also known as simple exercise, were usually use by most
people when they are having little time to exercise and have a problem of doing
heavy exercise. It commonly practices by elder people, pregnant woman,
patience and young children. This is the opposite of when a person is having an
active lifestyle and exercising. This study focused on the important of doing
somethings to breaks throughout the day to stand up and move around. Step out
from the environment you are, take quick walk outside, and walk up and down
the stairs few times around the building.

A light exercise involves small movement, time and energy to perform.

Light exercise is a kind of exercise that usually causes less energy and stamina.
It is also make the person less sweat and dehydrate too. Although to some
people who is in this range feel that it make cause less tiredness, but it work
within long term effect rather than do nothing. This exercise actually creates a
light movement between the ankle, muscle joined and heartbeat. The moment
when they do a walk, it takes a 3 combination and less energy to perform. The
longer the person walks, the more tired they will be.

This is because the effect of doing light type exercise in a long term. It
also giving another long term effect is they will slowly overcome the matter of
leg pain for long walk exercise. This exercise usually did not require any special
attention and can be perform at any time as they wish. From home to office,
from young to old doesn’t give any problem. But it recommended for the person
who listed earlier to perform for their capability over to stay in health. Here is
some few example of light exercise which is categories of light exercise. They
are walking, stretching body, Chinese Tai-chi, gardening, cycling, dumb bell
and much more.
 The second type of exercise is so called medium exercise are usually
perform for moderate person at different age. It doesn’t care any of the gender
arrangement or requirement. This medium exercise usually performs in small
amount in time and to those loves to save time. This medium exercise requires
an amount of concentration, energy or stamina, time and place. It also can be
perform by a group of people and solo. It train a lot of body part and cause
performer to sweat a lot dehydrate even much more compare to the light
exercise. It might be also need some specified skill to perform on the right way
because once they perform it on the wrong way, it may cause muscle cramp.

For the short term effect, it may reduce smoker to smoke. This is because
they might exhaust but only exercise reduces the chances of taking any nicotine
and tar in their body. This will make the smoker not to take any cigarette as
their throat is drying and if let say they smoke, this person might be in very high
chance for getting throat cancer.

In the long term effect of this medium exercise, it may bring a healthy
lifestyle and physical attitude as well. The long term effect usually takes time
to as to the person especially in their daily mood. The person who less exercise,
their face is pale or looks tired but if compare with the person who do exercise,
they have more energetic and confident looks. This effect also will bring close
relationship and build up strong neighborhood if they done it together. But to
some people who are disable, they also can perform sport as the part of their
exercise.

They perform in sport like track sport, field sport like futsal and more
according to their convenience. It is proven where the is special sports day were
introduce just for them. There are few example of medium type of exercise that
practice by most people. They are cycling, walking uphill, jogging, Tae Kwan
Do, swimming, running, and much more. This some part is actually providing
sufficient lifestyle to avoid any of negative impact or disease.

Hard or professional type exercise is another kind of exercise where this

involves to active people and to people loves diet. This type usually takes a lot
of concentrations as to prevent any side causes or muscle injured too. Plus this
exercise requires all of energy and full stamina. It also have to be assisted by
professional incase of not clear or not sure about it. This exercise performs by
athlete and to all active people. It takes all the energy and power to perform
while it also takes a full concentration to play the sport. If suddenly the player
lost concentration, it may cause a major injury and might be cause paralyze too.
 The physical activity involves the movement of people, animals and/or a
variety of objects such as balls and machines or equipment. This professional
exercise, usually require a place that suit to the sport like stadium, or gym
center. It also can be perform on the game court too as to a game like basketball
or tennis. This game gives everyone a chance to practice on how to work with
team and think a strategy to win the game. Like basketball, from what we see is
a 3 versus 3 games.

But in the three people they need teamwork so that they can pass the ball
and score. Besides that, they also need to think a strategy on breaking through
opponent defenses and score without playing fault. In gym, they will train in
specified machine to help them in body building. This training in gym is
especially in abdomen and shoulder where they are 85% chances in use of the
body part. They also have a chance on meeting new people to train human skill
and share their experience together.

Whenever you indulge yourself into sports, you were even meeting new
people. Apart from being an exciting and joyful activity, sports give a lot of
various advantages to our character. It can serve as a good source of pleasure.
Sport is a fantastic physical activity, and this may also develop a better physical
image than these persons who do not do it.

Training is also give a chance to provide them more time to be control

the stage of games too. With a fully all strategy, teamwork, training,
concentration and full energy, there is no way for other to any change to stop
them from growing. Plus physical activities can significantly help from the
decline of one’s depressive symptoms.

Persistent health problems are usually preventable with routine exercise.

When you make this a habit to workout daily, you will be able to avoid unsafe
health problems from any kind of cause. Exercise forms is resistance for the
body, also it functions on strengthening your muscles. Sports, one of the most
active activities compare to other where it cause the heartbeat and sweat part of
the entire body toxin out.

Plus it reduces chances of getting sick or even flu. In every minute the
heartbeat, the body pulse is double than usual where it give chance to human to
breath twice as fast to capture the oxygen the blood cell.

Every human pulse requires a full concentration where it helps to keep

on line of the body blood cycle. If let say they over the limit of one minute
heartbeat, they might get faint as also heart shock and body cramp. This are
often happen to some of the athlete where they push up the maximum limited
of their body level. There are also can possibility cause of easily broken bones
if they did not train. This effect actually related to calcium consumption and
exercise training. In research of health central, there will be long and short term
effect.

In the short term effect, it increases the flexibility of the bones and
strengthens the bones and joint especially when playing an outdoor sport. But
in long term of sport, this will reduce the chances of broken bones, delaying
muscle loss, and reduce risk of loosen the bones and joint. Therefore, sport does
play an important role in human’s life as they bring a healthy life to even live
longer.

Abstract
Positive effects from sports are achieved primarily through physical
activity, but secondary effects bring health benefits such as psychosocial and
personal development and less alcohol consumption. Negative effects, such as
the risk of failure, injuries, eating disorders, and burnout, are also apparent.
Because physical activity is increasingly conducted in an organized
manner, sport’s role in society has become increasingly important over the
years, not only for the individual but also for public health. In this paper, we
intend to describe sport’s physiological and psychosocial health benefits,
stemming both from physical activity and from sport participation per se.
This narrative review summarizes research and presents health-related
data from Swedish authorities. It is discussed that our daily lives are becoming
less physically active, while organized exercise and training increases. Average
energy intake is increasing, creating an energy surplus, and thus, we are seeing
an increasing number of people who are overweight, which is a strong
contributor to health problems.
Physical activity and exercise have significant positive effects in
preventing or alleviating mental illness, including depressive symptoms and
anxiety- or stress-related disease. In conclusion, sports can be evolving, if
personal capacities, social situation, and biological and psychological
maturation are taken into account. Evidence suggests a dose–response
relationship such that being active, even to a modest level, is superior to being
inactive or sedentary. Recommendations for healthy sports are summarized.
 Keywords: youth, adolescent, elderly, quality of life, relative age effect,
exercise, strength and conditioning.

1. Introduction
Sport is a double-edged sword regarding effects on health. Positive
effects are achieved primarily through physical activity, which is the main part
of most sports. Many secondary effects of sport also bring health benefits, such
as psychosocial development of both young and old , personal development [3],
later onset, and less consumption of alcohol . Finally, those who play sports
have a higher level of physical activity later in life , and through sport,
knowledge of nutrition, exercise, and health can be developed .
Negative effects include the risk of failure leading to poor mental health
risk of injury , eating disorders , burnout , and exercise-induced gastrointestinal
tract discomfort . In sport, there are unfortunately also reports of physical and
psychological abuse .
Negative aspects are more common in elite-level sports, where there is a
fine balance between maximum performance and negative health. A somewhat
unexpected effect of sport participation is that people submitting to planned
training in some cases perform less physical activity compared to those who are
exercising without a set schedule. One explanation can be a reduced
spontaneous physical activity in the latter group .
Because physical activity is increasingly executed in an organized
manner , sport’s role in society has become increasingly important over the
years, not only for the individual but also for public health.
In this paper, we describe the health effects of sport from a physiological
and psychological perspective, related both to physical activity and added
values of sport per se. Initially, brief definitions of various concepts related to
physical activity and health are given.
This is then followed by: (1) A brief description of how physical activity
and training affect our body from a physiological perspective; (2) a report on
the health effects of physical activity and training; and (3) sport’s specific
influences on the various dimensions of health. We chose to discuss the subject
from an age-related perspective, separating children/adolescents, adults, and the
elderly, as well as separating for sex in each age group.
2. Definitions of Physical Activity, Exercise, Training, Sport, and Health
Definitions and terms are based on “Physical activity in the prevention
and treatment of disease” World Health Organization (WHO) and the US
Department of Human Services . The definition of physical activity in FYSS is:
“Physical activity is defined purely physiologically, as all body movement that
increases energy use beyond resting levels”. Health is defined according to the
World Health Organization (WHO) as: “[…] a state of complete physical,
mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”
Physical activity can occur spontaneously (leisure/work/transport) or
organized and be divided according to purpose: Physical exercise is aimed
primarily at improving health and physical capacity. Physical training is aimed
primarily at increasing the individual’s maximum physical capacity and
performance. Physical inactivity is described as the absence of body movement,
when energy consumption approximates resting levels. People who do not meet
recommendations for physical activity are considered physically inactive and
are sometimes called “sedentary”.
Sport can be organized by age, sex, level of ambition, weight or other
groupings port can also be spontaneous and defined as a subset of exercises
undertaken individually or as a part of a team, where participants have a defined
goal. One can meet the daily recommendations for physical activity by brief,
high-intensity exercise, and remaining physically inactive for the rest of the day,
thereby creating a “polarization” of physical activity: Having a high dose of
conscious physical training, despite having a low energy expenditure in normal
life due to high volumes of sedentary time.
Polarization of physical activity may lead to increased risk of poor health
despite meeting the recommendations for physical activity . During most of our
lives, energy expenditure is greater in normal daily life than in sport, physical
training, and exercise, with the exceptions of children and the elderly, where
planned physical activity is more important .

Bibliography: www.sportsrec.com>importance – of – sports

www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au>HealthyLiving