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Exercises for morning exercises for children

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Last reviewed: 16.10.2021
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Exercises for morning exercises for children are gymnastic techniques that a child should perform after each awakening to maintain health and good physical activity. Given the spread of excess weight in modern children against a background of malnutrition and lack of motor activity, the question of morning exercises is very relevant.

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Why do you need morning exercises for your child?

The child's organism develops most actively in the first three years, and all the habits that have been developed in a child up to three years form its character. Therefore, it is necessary to accustom the child to morning gymnastics from one year old. Of course, this is not a full gymnastics, but if you develop a habit of it, then over the years you can simply change the complex of exercises and their complexity.

Talking about the benefits of morning exercises, do not just focus on physical development. If the child wakes up and after hygienic procedures discharges the charge, then this primarily disciplines him. During the exercise, muscle tone is activated and muscle receptors enter the motor center of the brain. This is a signal for the awakening of many internal organs. After all, the digestive system works by reducing the smooth muscle fibers, which are brought into tones already in the presence of such a dominant center in the brain. Therefore, if the child is exercising, it awakens the internal organs, primarily the digestive system, that prepares the child for breakfast. After such a complex of exercises, more gastric juice is produced and peristalsis of the intestine is intensified, so breakfast is very well absorbed.

Charging technique

The complex of exercises for morning exercises for children depends on the age. Already starting from the first year of life the child can begin to accustom to charging. When the baby wakes up you need to smile at him and wait a few minutes without lifting him from the crib. Next, you need to take him by the handles and make lying on the back of the movement in the form of a greeting, opening and closing the embrace. At the same time, it is necessary to talk with the child and smile at him so that he enjoys and likes it. Next you need to go to the legs, and bending them at an angle of ninety degrees you need to bring and take them to the belly and back. After such a warm-up you can lift the child off the bed and put it on the floor. You need to ask the baby to go to his mother or just walk with him by the handle. Such three exercises are sufficient at the initial stage to form a child's habits. In the future he will wake up and wait for such gymnastics. Then you can add exercises that your kid likes.

Beginning at the age of three, one can teach the child to do exercises himself, but it is very important to do this every morning and with it or show it to repeat. The first exercise should not be difficult, but at the same time, it should awaken the child's body and inflame it. Therefore, you can start the morning exercises with squats. For the first time, enough five sit-ups, but you need to follow to ensure that their technique was correct. The legs should be placed on the width of the shoulders of the child (and not of the mother), and during knee bends should not go beyond the line of socks. At first glance, this seems difficult, but if you show the child how to do it by his own example, then at three years old he can rightly repeat it. Further, when the child has warmed up, it is possible to pass to exercises on handles and legs. Handles need to bend in the elbows to ninety degrees and put in front of you, putting one on top of the other. Then you need to grow them in the shoulder joint also at ninety degrees. You can also make five such repetitions. The next exercise should be started by placing the handles on the waist. You need to lean in the sides, but not too fast and not bending forward.

To work the legs you can offer the child a fun running exercise. To do this, it is necessary to run quickly bending the legs in the knees and lifting them as high as possible to the chin - as if to run along the ladder forward.

Such three exercises will not lead to fatigue of the child, but make it easier to wake up. If mom or dad sees that the exercises are small and the child wants something new, then you can change some to more complex ones. For example, you can squat, and when the child is up you can offer to raise the handles up.

For children of preschool and early school age, a set of exercises of not less than five is recommended. If a child gets used to doing gymnastics from an early age, then the five exercises in the morning before the school for him will not seem complicated. You can add torso turns to the sides, as well as the "mill". Voobshchem, on what only at parents the imagination will suffice, all can be included in a complex of morning gymnastics. Then you need to rest for five to ten minutes, usually it's the time of the morning toilet or watching the cartoon, and then you can already have breakfast.

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What happens in the body after a physical exercise?

Physical exercises activate the activity of the nervous system. When impulses from the muscles come to the brain, then after that the tonus of the sympathetic nervous system, which at night "rests", is strengthened. Due to this, the heart rate increases, the sensory system is activated and the child is ready for a new day and the perception of new information. In addition to all this, gymnastics activates the function of the immune system through a lot of biologically active substances. When a child is asleep, all the functions of the body, like-too, "sleep." The immune system always works, but at night there is protection only for non-specific immunity. After awakening, it takes some time to activate the immune defense, because many mediators and substances that take part in the activation are synthesized with vitamins and enzymes in the cells. And for this activation and the beginning of respiratory function, the cells need oxygen. Exercise in the morning makes the respiratory system work more intensively, therefore oxygen for each cell is sufficient. And then the child's immune system until the time he leaves the house is fully activated, and the child is protected from many infections.

The respiratory system during the morning exercise is also activated and the synthesis of mucus, interferons and surfactant is enhanced, which also protects the respiratory system from viruses and bacteria.

The most important function of morning exercises is to prepare the child and instill in him love for the sport. After all, these exercises should be conducted in a good mood, which always adjusts for a good working day. If the child already goes to school, then the whole day spent at the desk and passive homework at home, does not contribute to sufficient motor activity. And a simple gymnastics in the morning can contribute to the development of the child's interest and love for gymnastics or sports. It is always good in terms of child employment and development of his interests.

Therefore, charging for a child is needed in order to awaken it in the morning, to activate the work of the brain and all internal organs. A simple complex of exercises in the morning has a good effect on health and increases the body's immune potential.

Exercises for morning exercises for children are those simple things that will help your child grow healthy, strong, develop a love for sports and wake up in the morning with pleasure. But do not forget that the children completely copy the behavior of their parents, so they need to show a good example and play sports themselves.

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