Sports And Exercise Analysis

Sports can affect your life in many different ways. For instance, it is proven that older people who played sports and exercise had significantly less brain shrinkage overall -- a sign of dementia and Alzheimer's disease -- than those who didn't do as much exercise. Sports and exercise can also obviously help your body, it is also proven that adults should also exercise at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise each week, or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity each week, to help stave off chronic diseases such as diabetes, arthritis and heart disease. Sports can decrease the risk of colon cancer by as much as 300 percent, according to the British Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. It can also significantly decrease the risk of breast cancer, and might decrease the risk of endometrial and lung cancer. It is also important for children to participate in sports because it will push them to do better in school so they can play. They can apply the same principles of …show more content…
But when negative adult role models oversee competition, the experience of your children will most oftentimes be filled with heartache, anxiety and potentially long lasting emotional trauma. Coaches and parents, who have lost their perspective of the game and don’t really understand the true purpose of youth sports, end up turning the game and competition into a pressure-filled nightmare for kids. As a consequence, the lessons that children end up inadvertently taking away from their experience may leave them handicapped for life. These children learn to: hate their sport and physical activity in general; fear taking risks and trying new things; believe that mistakes and failure are bad things to be avoided at all costs; think