Jim Rohn once said, “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” According to Project Play Aspen Institute, physical activity benefits health in many ways including helping building muscle and joints, maintaining healthy bones, helping control weight and reduce fat, and helping prevent or delay high blood pressure. Exercise is one of, if not, the cheapest way to stay healthy, with one study finding that exercise can help prevent chronic diseases just as well as medication. Participating in physical activity/sports or exercising at a young age can have lifelong benefits. People who play sports at a young age have a chance of up to eight times higher to be more active at the age of 24 as people who don’t play sports. Physical activity has educational benefits, physical health benefits, and can even help influence your career path. First, we are going to talk about educational benefits. Sport activity helps children with cognitive skills and develop, according to a study that tracked kids from kindergarten through 4th grade. Physical activity is also associated with better educational outcomes, including grades, standardized test scores, and in some cases, helps children get into better schools. Studies also show that high school athletes are more likely to attend college than non-atheletes. Like I stated previously, if you participate in sports at an early age, you can have great physical health. As you age, it’s VERY important to keep your muscles and bones strong, healthy, and sturdy. One of THE BEST ways to do this is– can you guess? Exercise! So unexpected, right? Haha— moving on. So, anyways, it’s important to exercise. It can reduce weight, which is good, help prevent brain disease, which is good, and… just other good stuff. Slowly increasing your muscle weight— get this! No matter your age you can get LIFELONG benefits! Crazy right? Even just climbing stairs can give you benefits! Or taking in the groceries! Or dancing! A survey of 400 corporate female executives found that 94% played a sport and 61% of them who did play sports say that sports contributed to their career success. This shows that sports help with whatever career path you choose, even if it’s being a crazy-rich CEO of Amazon; that is if you want to kick boxes with quote unquote ‘fragile things’ on the front porch. For some reason, SOME Fed-Ex people just throw and punt the boxes onto the porch, maybe they did want to do sports… no offense to any delivery Fed-Ex drivers who do that by the way, it’s not like we want our fragiles to not be in one piece anymore, you’re doing us a HUGE favor. By the way, that was your cue to laugh- whatever. Or throwing the steering wheel around like it’s a frisbee inside the cab. Sports don’t just benefit your career path, they can also benefit your community. 77% of adults that age 30+ that play sports now, played sports at a younger age. Only 3% of adults who didn’t play sports at a young age do now. Active communities are healthier. The Aspen Institute examined the top 10 cities of the 2019 ACSM American Fitness Index. The cities with the highest score had the best community physical health, compared to individual physical health. All in all, sports are great! Just not for… some people.
PLZ TELLLLLLLLL ME I WORKED SO HARD
