The benefits of learning martial arts for youth growth and development
Martial arts is a traditional sports program with the main form of set, confrontation, attack, defense and fitness and entertainment as the main purpose, mainly divided into two types of sets and sparring. Through the study of wushu can make children and young people’s cardiovascular, respiratory, metabolic, nervous system has a great improvement, to promote its stretch development, physical fitness and better enhance the child’s self-confidence.
The effect of martial arts on the motor system
The influence of martial arts on the motor system of children and adolescents are in the growth of the development period, children’s bones, fine soft cartilage composition is high, through the study of martial arts can stimulate the periosteum outer layer of osteoblasts to grow, enhance the thickness and density of the bone cortex to make the arrangement of trabeculae of the bone is more in line with the direction of the role of stress to promote the growth of the long bones. Due to the fast and powerful characteristics of the Wushu program, the requirements for strength and flexibility are high. Strength and speed are based on the growth of muscles, and flexibility is mainly reflected in the size of the human body’s joints, as well as joint ligaments, tendons, muscles, and other tissues of the elasticity and stretching ability. In the practice of wushu various jumping movements, kicking, splitting, sets of exercises, etc. to promote the growth of children’s muscles, the thickness of articular cartilage, the joint capsule and ligament extension, because the joints have a large range of motion, good flexibility, and therefore plasticity, in the training of wushu some swinging legs, turn the waist to shabu waist exercises can further improve the quality of flexibility.
The effect of martial arts on the cardiovascular system
Martial arts routines are generally about 1 minute and 20 seconds to anaerobic metabolism for energy, practicing wushu requires qi sinking into the dantian, change chest respiration for abdominal respiration, diaphragm movement play a role in massaging the internal organs and promote blood circulation, some studies have shown that the wushu training so that children and teenagers to improve the cardiovascular system’s function, the heart rate is slow and quiet, blood pressure is lower, the wushu “exercise heart “In children and teenagers has been clearly formed, so children from a young age to start practicing wushu, its cardiovascular function has been improved, myocardial contractility increased, cardiac output increased, cardiac volume increased, vascular elasticity increased, so the slow heartbeat and low blood pressure phenomenon will be reflected in the quiet time.
Effects of martial arts on the respiratory system
Children and teenagers have small thoracic contour folder, short and narrow respiratory tract, and weak respiratory muscle strength, so the elastic resistance and airway resistance are large when breathing, shallow breathing, and poor lung ventilation, wushu exercises pay attention to the coordination of lifting and expiration, the abdominal wall inwardly retracts when lifting, the thoracic cavity expands, and the negative pressure of the thoracic cavity increases when lifting, which on the one hand, can make the lungs expand obviously, and increase the amount of oxygen intake, and the long term practice of wushu can improve the lung capacity, especially to the Children and teenagers, due to the energy supply characteristics of wushu sports require a high demand on the respiratory system of athletes, so engaging in wushu sports can improve the function of the respiratory system.
The effect of martial arts on metabolism
Adolescents have anaerobic capacity is significantly weaker than adults, martial arts sets is a major form of martial arts sports, martial arts sets of sports can be divided into three types, aerobic metabolism-based taijiquan type of sets of sports, to the phosphate and lactate energy anaerobic metabolism of the Nanquan Changquan and between the aerobic and anaerobic function of some of the traditional martial arts. Children and adolescents need a lot of energy in order to meet their requirements, and the aerobic oxidative pathway is far from being able to satisfy this demand, so a series of adjustments through the practice of martial arts to enhance the process of glycolysis, thus contributing to the gradual enhancement of anaerobic capacity.
The effect of martial arts training on the nervous system
The excitation and inhibition of the cerebral cortex of children and adolescents are unbalanced, and the excitation is dominant and easy to spread, but the establishment of conditioned reflexes is fast, and it fades fast, and recovers fast, and children mainly rely on the intuitive image to establish conditioned reflexes, and the requirements of wushu movements on all parts of the human body are relatively high, and the wushu training can make the children’s analyzing and synthesizing ability improve significantly. Wushu traditional techniques “eight methods” in the requirements of the fist like a shooting star, eyes like electricity, in the practice of martial arts require full of spirit, full concentration, the power of the Shunda, physical and mental unity, which prompts the cerebral cortex of the excitation and inhibition process is highly concentrated. Therefore, regular training in martial arts not only improves the coordination between various centers, but also improves the balance and flexibility of the intensity of neural processes in the cerebral cortex.