Kiera Atkins

Highly energetic and dedicate Physical Education Teacher with 7 years career experience. Possesses excellent communication skills and strong work ethic putting educational lessons into practice and maintaining exemplary physical fitness.

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Importance of Classroom Exercise Breaks

Importance of Classroom Exercise Breaks

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The purpose of exercise break is to make the mind available to learn or to accomplish a task by focusing on a particular thing and eliminating any other distractions. The capacities of attention and concentration are closely linked. The development of these capacities in children are extremely important. And once again, it is by physical activities that our children learn that natural way .

Children must exercise consistently from an early age in order to prevent health complications in old age. The most sensible approach is an efficient full-body workout that increases agility, flexibility and stamina and at the same time strengthens the whole body. Also during childhood, regular fitness training with body weight workouts sets the groundwork for future healthy life. Functional exercise is exercise in which, just with the aid of your own body weight, muscles are built up without equipment.

There are different fitness workouts, which you can use without any special workout equipment in exercise breaks. Take a look at my tips and pick age-appropriate ideas that are ideal for your students. You should give the little ones a huge variety of workout opportunities. Children between the ages of six and twelve should train regularly. All the exercises should be playful and varied. Intense resistance training should not take place between the ages of six and twelve.

The biggest phases of individual development and maturation occur between the ages of about seven and ten years. In particular, the age of around eight to twelve years is considered the “golden” learning age for physical skills. The aim is the playful development of basic coordination skills, e.g. balance, rhythm and orientation. As informal as possible, without too difficult sports exercises for children and preferably in a playful way.

Prolonged classes make the student to be highly stressed. It impairs the ability of the brain and has been found to induce anxiety. It is therefore important that you support your students during stressful phases and help them find peace. Many students feel stressed and overwhelmed. With the use of exercise breaks you can help your student find peace.

The skeleton of the child is usually less resistant to friction and bending forces until about seven years of age. There's a need to improve the muscles from this age on. The supportive muscles therefore grows quicker and more reliable as a result. Endurance training should be made playful, varied and with breaks. Children's fitness is of great importance for the physical, social and personal development.

The school years are often the best, but hectic studies are also the most devastating for the mind. Fortunately, there is still time to save it all with simple exercises. Between intense course days and homework or revisions to do at home, it is not always easy to find time to play. It is better to exercise at the same time as they study. As a teacher you can find easy exercises that work full body. To build muscles while building brain, pick some fitness exercises students can do while studying in class. Not only these exercises should not interfere with studies, but they should also provide full body training, to stay healthy while having a good time in class.