Parents, please take a look at these 8 sports that are not suitable for children

Exercise is good for everyone, but the type of exercise should be determined according to one's own situation, especially for children. The following sports are not suitable for children. Let’s take a look.

1. Long-distance running with excessive intensity

Some parents like to do long-distance running every morning and drag their older children to run with them. This is wrong. Because children are in the growth and development stage, their muscles develop vertically and their muscle strength is poor. Long-distance running with excessive intensity can easily cause muscle fatigue and affect the normal development of muscles. On the other hand, children's hearts are smaller and their contraction force is weaker. In addition, children's chests are small, their lung ventilation volume is also small, and their oxygen uptake capacity is poor. Long-distance running with too much intensity will increase the burden on the cardiopulmonary system and cause insufficient oxygen supply. Therefore, long-distance running for children is not only difficult to supply the energy consumed by the body, but also affects the normal growth and development of children. In addition, children have poor tolerance to heat and cold. They are prone to sweating excessively in hot weather and catching colds in cold weather. When doing morning exercises, you must pay special attention to temperature changes. When children do long-distance running, they must do it according to their own situation and not force themselves. If the child is under 12 years old, it is best not to exceed 1000 meters when running, and not to run too fast.

2. Play tug of war frequently

"Pulling the Carrot" is a story that almost every kindergarten child understands and a nursery rhyme that they can sing, and tug-of-war is often an activity that children like. When playing tug-of-war, children may lean back, forward, or sideways, and use their limbs to maintain a fixed position. This often takes a certain amount of time, especially when the two teams are evenly matched. Young children's bones and joints are very delicate and easily injured and deformed. In a high-intensity sport like tug-of-war, the muscles of the child's entire body are in a state of constant tension, requiring the consumption of large amounts of oxygen and nutrients, which often leads to hypoxia due to supply shortage. In the case of lack of oxygen, not only are muscles prone to fatigue, but it is also not conducive to the normal development of muscles. In addition, tug-of-war often requires continuous breath holding, which affects rhythmic breathing and leads to a decrease in the amount of blood returning to the heart, resulting in a decrease in cardiac output and a sudden increase in the burden on the myocardium. In this case, the heart and brain will experience temporary ischemia, and in severe cases, fainting may occur. Therefore, tug of war is not a regular sport suitable for young children.

3. Arm wrestling

Soft tissue sprains and humeral fractures caused by arm wrestling are common. This is because when arm wrestling, the elbow joint must be flexed to nearly 90 degrees and supported on the table in order to stabilize the forearm and upper arm and apply all the strength of the body to the wrist. At this time, both sides gritted their teeth, flexed their fingers and wrists desperately, and pressed towards each other with the strongest force by means of forearm pronation, elbow flexion and upper arm internal rotation. Therefore, there are opposing forces working against each other in the upper arms of both parties. The two opposite torsional forces intersect just above and below the attachment point of the humeral internal rotator muscle, which can easily cause spiral fractures in the middle and lower parts of the humeral shaft. At the moment when both sides struggle hard, there is often a sudden click, and the upper arm will experience severe pain due to the fracture and cannot move. Under normal circumstances, there is no preparation for arm wrestling. The fight just starts right away, tensing the muscles from their original state, which can easily lead to sprains of muscles and some tissues.

4. "Cockfighting"

The "cockfighting" game is widely popular in many places in our country: when they are free, a group of children "fight" like roosters in an interesting way, and many children like it very much. In fact, this is a game that can easily harm your body and cause damage if you are not careful. First, since the game participants use the kneecap as an offensive weapon to attack each other, the knee joint can easily be injured. Collision of the knee joint can cause congestion and edema of the joint surface. If it occurs repeatedly over a long period of time, it can lead to rough and uneven joint surfaces, forming permanent traumatic arthritis and affecting the normal movement of the joint. If the meniscus in the knee joint is injured, it can also cause difficulty in walking. Furthermore, since cockfighting involves standing on one foot, the body's center of gravity is unstable and an ankle sprain may occur if one is not careful. Alternatively, when attacking each other, one may easily collide with the chest and abdominal tissues, causing mild soft tissue contusion and severe rib fractures.

5. Strength training

When children grow, they first grow taller and then gain weight. Moreover, their muscles are weak and they get tired easily. In other words, physical development is mainly based on bone growth and has not yet entered the peak period of muscle growth. If children are allowed to do muscle weight-bearing strength training too early at this time, firstly, the local muscles of the children will be too strong, affecting the balanced development of various parts of the body. Secondly, the muscles will be stimulated and developed too early, causing a heavier burden on organs such as the heart. In addition, it may cause local muscles to become stiff and lose their normal elasticity. Therefore, parents should not let their children engage in strength exercises such as pull-ups, push-ups, and sit-ups that adults often practice. If you want to practice muscle strength, it is more appropriate to start from the first or second year of junior high school.

6. Extreme Sports

Experts believe that physical exercise for children and adolescents must first follow the laws of children's own physical growth and development, and secondly, take into account the anatomical and physiological characteristics of children and adolescents' bodies. Children are in the growth and development period, and their organs are not yet mature in all aspects. Naturally, it is difficult for them to withstand extremely "challenging" extreme sports, and it is easy to cause injuries. For example, a large amount of exercise that is several times more than the child's body can bear may cause the child's muscles to be in a state of extreme fatigue for a long time, causing muscle fatigue damage, and easily leaving sequelae of sports injuries. In addition, the cartilage in the joints of growing children has not yet fully grown. Excessive wear and tear of the knee cartilage over a long period of time can easily lead to arthritis in the future. Studies show that knee injuries in childhood increase the likelihood of developing arthritis in adulthood by three to four times.

7. Handstand

Although children have a stronger ability to regulate intraocular pressure, if they frequently do headstands or do so for too long each time, it will damage the eye's ability to regulate intraocular pressure.

8. Scooters

Children under 8 years old should not ride scooters. Children's bodies are in a critical period of development. If they play scooters for a long time, their leg muscles will become overdeveloped, affecting the overall development of the body and even affecting their height development. In addition, when riding a scooter, the waist, knees, and ankles need to support the body with force, and these parts are very easy to be injured, so you must take good protection. It is best to have your parents accompany you and find a flat and spacious non-traffic area to play.