BE ACTIVE IN
FOR TEENS
SPORTS
HEALTH BENEFIT OF
SPORTS
1. Improved cardiovascular health.
2. Lowers risk of heart disease,
stroke, and diabetes.
3. Helps manage weight.
4. Reduced blood pressure.
5. Enhanced aerobic fitness.
6. Improved muscular strength and
endurance.
7. Improved joint flexibility and
range of motion.
8. Stress relief.
9. Lowers risk of certain types of
cancer.
10. Control cholesterol.
11. Ward off osteoporosis.
12. Strengthens immune system.
13. Improved sleep.
14. Mental health benefits.
15. Prolonged life
THE BENEFITS OF SPORT
If Organized Sports Aren't Your
Thing
If you want to just follow
1. Sports Keep You Healthy
your own time, you must
2. Playing Sports Can Improve
practice an exercise routine.
Academic Performance
Try some of this activities;
3. Sports Help Shape Identity
hiking, trailing and some
4. Sport Provide Social Benefits
water world activities like
5. Sports Let You Learn From a
surfing, canoeing and water
Role Model
skiing.
6. Sports Keep You Safe
Find Your Inner Self
If you didn't want a tiresome
activity. Try this activity; Yoga,
Pilates and Tai'chi
Playing with Friends and Win as
One.
If you want to play and
strategize with friends, you
CHOOSING THE RIGHT could be a good team player.
SPORT FOR YOU Try do be in a team sports
So Many Sports, Only One You! like basketball, volleyball,
soccer, football.
Sometimes, There Is an "I" in
Team
If you want a individual
performance in a team you
can join; athletics, swimming,
gymnastics, any individual
sports.
 BE HEALTHY: HOW GATEWAY DRUGS
CAN HARM YOUR HEALTH
SAY NO TO
Marijuana, alcohol, and
GATEWAY DRUGS nicotine are all addictive
substances that can lead to health
WHAT ARE GATEWAY complications including death.
DRUGS?
Addiction isn’t limited to
certain substances. Addiction
HOW SPORTS CAN BE A
forms due to a rewiring of neural
HEALTHY ALTERNATIVE
pathways from our most primitive
instincts. It alters a person’s habit
TO A GATEWAY DRUGS
loop, which includes the following Sports can build self-
aspects: Trigger, Behavior and reliance and fill the need for
Reward adventure and a measure of risk
that may serve as an alternative to
Gateway drugs are drug use for some young people.
introductory, habit-forming
substances that give way to more In playing a sports, young
severe drug use down the road. people have their code of
They are typically milder, fairly- conduct, where you can build
accessible substances like; your sportsmanship, respect to
1. Alcohol others, to yourself, to the sport, to
2. Nicotine the organization that that you
3. Marijuana belong and last property.