If you are a teenager, do not give up the sport!

Lack of excitement or enthusiasm, interest in other things, lack of fun or affiliation to a team and laziness for effort, are some of the reasons why many teenagers abandon the sportwhen they finish the Institute or College.

However, we must be convinced that physical exercise, in addition to being good for health and prolonging life, produces changes in personality such as emotional stability, increased performance, confidence, extroversion, improvement of self-esteem and perception of itself.

Why NOT give up sport when you turn 18

Healthy mens in corpore sano. This phrase of our Greek ancestors is imprinted in the minds of our young people since they were little. However, many who have normally done some physical activity during their school years, they abandon the sport when they turn 18. They forget that with the sport can be improved: academic and work performance, confidence, emotional balance, self-control, self-esteem, sociability, memory, physical image and personal well-being.


"Some young people confess that they do not exercise because they get tired, and they do not realize that fatigue is muscular, but at the end of the activity the feeling of general and emotional well-being is much greater. It is essential in these ages emotional discharge through any type of physical exercise, "says Mar Martínez, Physical Education teacher.

This expert points out that for young people it is the best weapon to survive this materialistic and consumerist society enjoying friendships, relationships without having to resort to violence, alcohol or inadequate sexual relations behaviors and, ultimately, to waste best energies of age.


Sport helps the body-mind balance

"The young person needs sport more than anyone, it helps to improve psychophysical development and socialization as training of one's own life." We advise doctors, and especially psychiatrists, who, incidentally, besides treating mental illnesses, We strive to make our current society think about the importance of preventing, that is, taking care of mental health, "says Mª Luz Mediano, a psychiatrist at the Salvia Clinic in Madrid.

Mediano remembers that from the anthropological point of view each human person is harmonically constituted by a body, a mind and a spiritual soul. These three dimensions of the person are equally important, and all three of us must take care of each other. "The body, without letting it be the only protagonist of our attention, is that material support of our immaterial dimension, and sport helps keep it in good condition."


Emerging pathologies that prevent sport in adolescence

On the other hand, the practice of an appropriate and personalized sport for each young person is of considerable help to the doctor in the case of incipient pathologies.
It is also highly recommended to play sports to solve problems of "desamores". It is a remedy for these small "depressions" and the best way to be with friends and not to go around in the head.

Moderate aerobic activity reduces the risk of hypertension by 34%, increases sensitivity to insulin by up to 25% (for diabetics) and improves the amount of "good cholesterol". In addition, exercise is an excellent therapy against stress. According to the Spanish Society of Cardiology, sports practiced regularly can allow you to live for ten more years.

Sport: team or individual

Sport helps to set goals and to fight for them. In the case of team sports, a social interaction is achieved, which teaches how to win or lose, something that is inevitably going to happen in the rest of the life events. In addition, you learn from others. It is also important to make each and every player on the team feel important. In the individual activity, helps us put effort to achieve good goals for the person.

"From my point of view, team sport help more to those shy and introverted young people where the exercise will reinforce more the social relations and that will provide them with a positive final result. Those extroverted and communicative young people will contribute their social skills to the rest of their classmates and will learn to respect at all times, "says Mar Martínez.

The importance of the coach

According to the Physical Education teacher, sport, despite being a framework of social relationships that help to form personal balance, must be guided and guided by experts and coaches, who seek the global good by knowing and respecting each partner.

"The strength of a coach in a low self-esteem boy, shy, when given a pat at the right time and praising him and also making a criticism or a correction in the right way and moment, is of vital importance," he says. Mar Martínez.

On the other hand, a personalized plan for each type of person is very good so that progress is achieved step by step.

What are the most recommended sports for young people?

The first thing to know is that the most recommended sport for a young man is the one he likes the most. What we do know is that the most practiced in Spain are the soccer, cycling, swimming, basketball, skiing and athletics. The important thing is that it be constant in your practice.

It is advisable not to go through physical exercise, to avoid exhaustion, because if we exhaust ourselves, our body will lose strength and we will stop exercising.
Walking and cycling are the two activities to which it is easier to adapt. Walking for half an hour a day helps prevent heart and cerebrovascular attacks.

Reasons for young people to participate in a sport

1. Learning new skills
2. Have fun
3. Affiliation
4. Enthusiasm and emotions
5. Exercise and physical form
6. Competitive challenge / victory

Reasons for young people to leave sports

1. Failure to learn new skills
2. Lack of fun
3. Lack of affiliation. Competitive stress
4. Absence of emotion or enthusiasm
5. Absence of exercise and physical form
6. Lack of challenge / defeat

Reasons to practice sports

Have fun, learn new skills, do something for which one is worth, be with friends, meet people, get fit, exercise, improve our heart, lungs, circulatory system, skeleton, musculature and experience personal, physical and psychic success. Everything is advantages!

Tips for practicing sports in youth

1. Young people and their parents, they must know that the sport must be personalized according to their physical, psychic and socio-family environment in which they are. It does not take excessive money.

2. The weekend It is a very appropriate time to play sports. There are municipal sports centers in all the Town Halls, public and private places to practice it.

3. It is not necessary to play competitive sport, We are talking about doing some physical activity. It is estimated that doing sports between 30 and 40 minutes every other day does not improve our health. Imagine if you do it every day!

4. If you have not played sports for a long time, the first days will be the hardest, but little by little you will feel better.

5. Sport has to have its time and place, set a schedule without it becoming something to disperse or distract. You have to plan: time for studies, obligations, leisure and sports.

Jaime Márquez

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