After School Sports Help Get Smarter

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You can also be smarter from the sports you play. All sports can help get smarter. The sport that gets you smarter the most is football because it helps you with were you are going to go(mentally) and were to throw the ball while you run(physically). Football helps with a lot of knowledge.

After school sports doesn’t only help with intelligence, strength, and growth, it also helps with movement. Stretching before doing something can be really helpful. It looses your bone can move easily. Movement is very important to us. We need to be able to bend for our life’s to be easier. Can you ever imagine not able to move at all? What a painful life.

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