Parents must know! 5 kinds of exercise that will keep your child from growing taller

Children's physical development is not yet complete, and many physical conditions are different from those of adults. For example, the functions of various organs are relatively weak, the hardness of bones and muscle strength are smaller than those of adults, the joints are softer than those of adults, and the heart and lung functions are relatively poor due to incomplete development. Therefore, the ability to adapt to exercise load is also poor. Therefore, not all sports that are suitable for adults are also suitable for children.

5 kinds of sports that prevent children from growing taller

It is not advisable to do 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.

In short, children should do long-distance running according to their ability and proceed step by step to achieve the desired training effect. It is generally believed that children under the age of 12 should not run more than 1,000 meters each time, and should not run too fast.

Don't play tug of war often

"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.

Do not arm wrestle

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.

In addition, there is usually no warm-up exercise before arm wrestling. At the beginning, both parties grit their teeth and fight with all their might. The muscles and ligaments throughout the body suddenly change from their original relaxed state to a tense and contracted state, which can easily cause sprains of soft tissues such as muscles, tendons, fascia, and ligaments.

It is not advisable to play "cockfighting" often

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.

Don't go clubbing often

Relevant expert research points out that the vigorous and passionate disco dance is not suitable for children. Because disco dancing has a strong rhythm and young children have poor control, they can easily lose balance and fall if they twist their bodies excessively. At the same time, their muscles are weak and their bones are not yet fully developed, so this intense exercise is very detrimental to their healthy growth.

British medical experts have suggested that the continuous and rapid twisting of the neck during disco dancing will cause the carotid artery to twist frequently, obstructing blood flow, making it easy for cerebral ischemia to occur and causing fainting. In severe cases, it will tear the spinal nerves, leading to limb numbness, slow movement, and the formation of disco dance.