As a child growing up, it’s a parent’s job to decide what is best for them until the child is capable to choose what is best for themselves. Sports have a huge impact on a parent’s decision on what they want their child to take part in. Parents could choose just one sport for their child to participate in, or multiple sports. When a parent decides to pick one sport for their child to engage and compete in it's known as youth sport specialization because they choose one sport that intensely trains their child while excluding other sports. This could become by a parent wanting their child to do as best as they can in that sport so they can continue and pursue to be the best athlete possible, or even eventually make it to the professionals. Even
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Therefore, it is important for a child to participate in multiple sports rather than just one. Over training in a single sport for minors can intensely affect one's mental and physical stability.
In youth specialization in one sport it can majorly affect one’s mental strength to complete their accomplishments. Evidence and opinions are increasing on minors being over trained during sports specialization. Thus, the analysis within the observations of sport specialization shows that burnout, or emotional exhaustion from the psychological demands of the sport, can affect one’s mental stability. Jessica Hess, a head athletic trainer similarly emphasizes, “Studies have shown that sport dropout rate is substantially higher in young athletes who specialize at an early age (prior to 15-years-old)” (Hess). The younger the age the child is specializing in one single sport the more time they have to contemplate and realize the pain within the over training. The more work that they have to put into the training the less motivation he or she will have to complete their accomplishments. Being over worked stresses one out to where they finally are too exhausted to finalize their performance which results into a burnout. Joel Brenner, council on sports medicine and fitness acknowledges …show more content…
While participating in a specialized sport, a well maintained and well-balanced physical evaluation should be enhanced. Obviously if one engages to overtrain in a sport they are more likely to get hurt than one who does not. John O’Sullivan reported in his “Is it Wise to Specialize“ article, “In a study of 1200 youth athletes, Dr Neeru Jayanthi of Loyola University found that early specialization in a single sport is one of the strongest predictors of injury. Athletes in the study who specialized were 70% to 93% more likely to be injured than children who played multiple sports” (O’Sullivan). Based on this research, young athletes should be encouraged to participate in multiple sports rather than a single one. This study proves that overtraining in a sport can cause a very high percentage of injury than it could if one athlete played in multiple sports. Athletes considered as adolescents could double the amount of time they participate in an administered sport than to just regularly play around are without a doubt to have a higher chance to have a serious injury from being worn out. Also, while engaging in a sport, if one plays as many hours as to their age during a week span they have a high risk of developing an injury very easily. In example, if one trains in a sport for 11 hours while they are 11 years old they are most likely to become
Therefore, it is important for a child to participate in multiple sports rather than just one. Over training in a single sport for minors can intensely affect one's mental and physical stability.
In youth specialization in one sport it can majorly affect one’s mental strength to complete their accomplishments. Evidence and opinions are increasing on minors being over trained during sports specialization. Thus, the analysis within the observations of sport specialization shows that burnout, or emotional exhaustion from the psychological demands of the sport, can affect one’s mental stability. Jessica Hess, a head athletic trainer similarly emphasizes, “Studies have shown that sport dropout rate is substantially higher in young athletes who specialize at an early age (prior to 15-years-old)” (Hess). The younger the age the child is specializing in one single sport the more time they have to contemplate and realize the pain within the over training. The more work that they have to put into the training the less motivation he or she will have to complete their accomplishments. Being over worked stresses one out to where they finally are too exhausted to finalize their performance which results into a burnout. Joel Brenner, council on sports medicine and fitness acknowledges …show more content…
While participating in a specialized sport, a well maintained and well-balanced physical evaluation should be enhanced. Obviously if one engages to overtrain in a sport they are more likely to get hurt than one who does not. John O’Sullivan reported in his “Is it Wise to Specialize“ article, “In a study of 1200 youth athletes, Dr Neeru Jayanthi of Loyola University found that early specialization in a single sport is one of the strongest predictors of injury. Athletes in the study who specialized were 70% to 93% more likely to be injured than children who played multiple sports” (O’Sullivan). Based on this research, young athletes should be encouraged to participate in multiple sports rather than a single one. This study proves that overtraining in a sport can cause a very high percentage of injury than it could if one athlete played in multiple sports. Athletes considered as adolescents could double the amount of time they participate in an administered sport than to just regularly play around are without a doubt to have a higher chance to have a serious injury from being worn out. Also, while engaging in a sport, if one plays as many hours as to their age during a week span they have a high risk of developing an injury very easily. In example, if one trains in a sport for 11 hours while they are 11 years old they are most likely to become