Regular exercise has many health benefits for children and young people, such as: Improving fitness, providing an opportunity to socialise, increasing concentration, improving academic scores, building stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles, encouraging healthy growth and development and also improving self-esteem. All children should enjoy going outdoors, they must be allowed to play outside as it helps exercise. Working out helps them in development, health […]

Organized, well-structured youth sports and on-going physical activities can provide many benefits for children and adolescents. Positive experiences that sports and an active lifestyle bring play an important role in a young person’s life.At University of Missouri Health Care, our adolescent medicine team encourages all children to participate in sports or other regular physical activity. Physical exercise is good for the mind, body and spirit. […]

If exercise could be put into a pill, would you take it? An article published by ABC claimed that exercising three times a week could be more beneficial than medication in treating depressive symptoms in elderly people (Livni, 2018). Depression is a common and consequential medical illness that is categorized by negative affect toward a person’s thoughts, feelings, and actions. Symptoms of depression consist of […]

When an individual exercises, various physiological changes occur within their body to ensure that adequate amounts of oxygen and nutrients are being provided to the working muscles. This increase in demand forces the body to instantaneously make adjustments to the working systems and eventually adapt. The five major immediate physiological responses to training include heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, ventilation and lactate levels. These […]