Childhood Sports Participation: When Is It Too Much?

This module details in detail whether children should participate in the ethical dilemma of early childhood competitive sports and how sports participation affects their future. Students will begin participating in competitive sports activities and general injuries faced by young athletes and will understand the potential benefits and risks that children may encounter when they begin competition. This module contains personal opinions and case-based activities. In this module, students will review and discuss the personal stories of university athletes, detail their experiences in college sports, and analyze the case scenarios students relate to sports conflicts. There is one activity.

Through current research, we first describe the natural process of physical participation from childhood to adolescence and show that sports participation in childhood predicts adolescent situation. Early sports specialization was related to grades of puberty, but it did not prevent future participation. The initial sports sampler was unlikely to become other than participants later. Considering that PA is important at every stage of life, these results are concerned about the recent trend, that is, the increasing number of children specializing in earlier sports 15,20. Risks other than participants It is adolescence. Based on previous findings, 4, 41, 42 highlight the importance of early intervention to promote active lifestyle in childhood as it is a powerful determinant of future PA levels .

PURPOSE: We aim to deepen the understanding of the relationship between childhood specialization and puberty physical activity (PA). Its objectives are as follows: (1) Explain the natural process of sports participation for more than 5 years in early exercise samplers or early sports special children; and (2) Physical participation in childhood predicts puberty movement Whether to decide. METHODS: Participants (n = 756, 10-11 years old, at the start of the study) reported that they participated in organized and unorganized PA and conducted a classroom study every 4 months for 5 years. They were classified as early stage motion samplers, early sports experts or non-participants in the first year and were classified as leisure sports participants, performance sports participants or non-participants in 2 to 5 years. The child's sports profile predicts the adolescence possibility as a relative risk