Advantages of Physical Exercise on Academics

Advantages of Physical Exercise on Academics

Although mental fitness is a significant determinant for improvement in academic achievement, evidence shows that physical activity and education significantly improve or derail academic performance.  Further, physical fitness helps in improving a person’s cognitive functions, as well as the capacity to concentrate and remember, both of which are vital for high academic performance. Physical education is defined as the training offered to students at all education levels from kindergarten to university level on their bodies and the relationship between physical activities and academic performance. Several studies have been carried out to examine both the connection between sports conducted, proving that physical activities strongly enhance mind development and achievement in academics as well as improving social relations. Physical education is a crucial factor in improving academic performance. Therefore, this essay seeks to illustrate the benefits of the same concerning academics and other outcomes in society across various ages demographic.

The education provided on physical health enables students to treat other peoples’ bodies with respect as well as their own beginning at a tender age since it enhances the understanding of their own body thus developing empathy towards each other. Further, the rational knowledge of the body facilitates an integrated development of different physical and mental aspects of a human being (xxxx). A significant portion of physical development is controlled by the brain, while the person’s physical environment controls the brain. As a result, many education institutions are aware of the benefits of training students about the human body and thus, factored in this section in the curriculum, beginning from the lower levels of education. Additionally, the curriculum ensures that the training is conducted by professionals to facilitate optimum benefits for students from well-controlled and supervised physical activities in school.

Early studies indicate that physical education assists in improving human body posture in school and later on, as the students grow older (xxx). Posture improvement is achieved through training on how to stand, sit, lye down as well as advice on the most appropriate ways of exercising and the most effective intervals. The benefits derived include efficiency in carrying out physical tasks without exerting excessive pressure on bones and preventing premature ageing and bone structure diseases associated with poor posture. As a result, the training at a tender age instils discipline in proper physical structure practices and also improves and prolongs mind concentration in class.

Moreover, physical education is essential in moods improvement, both in children, young adults and adults alike (xxx).  Studies conducted to examine the impacts human body awareness proves that both physical exercise and education on the human body creates a joyous spirit, which is a source of positive emotions and physical sensibility. Low emotional moments are a common occurrence among students of all ages and can lead to adverse effects ranging from reversible performance to irreversible one’s suicide caused by depression. On the other hand, physical education enables students to take decisive action at a personal level during low emotional moments promptly before it escalates to uncontrollable levels. The positive actions available include eating appropriate diets and exercise to rejuvenate mental energy, improving rational thinking and decision making.

Additionally, physical education also reduces the effects of negative effects of sedentary

As illustrated by studies conducted between late 1800s and 1950. People who spend a significant part of their day sitting down, whether its work or school tend to have a higher probability of developing obesity, cardiovascular complications and stroke. As a result, education institutions ensure that recess time scheduled in a student’s timetable is spent on the exact purpose intended to ensure that that all energy stored in the body is tapped and utilized to minimize possibilities of obesity (xxx). Obesity in children and young adults can course severe self esteem, and consequently poor performance in academics thus, a reduction in the body fat index or prevention of the same is achievable via physical education. Further studies conducted in early 1900s on the effects of school games on students drew a claim that such games promote better development of leadership skills, team spirit, essential mental as well as physical gratification and profoundly good character (xxx). In many sports, working together in a synchronized manner often delivers optimum results, more importantly, for a group of people to work together in an organized manner to achieve a common goal, requires one or several individuals in the group to coordinate the actions of the playmates for example, a football team lead by a captain. Teaching students school games also requires elaborate understanding of leadership skills to transfer them to the students while teaching school games hence, the skills learnt by the students can be applied in life outside of school with minimal or no tweaking.

In 1950s, a British publication called “Moving and Growing” by  the Ministry of Education, conveyed a transformation in female students’ ability to express themselves better after going through physical education. The education was provided in gymnastics classes which was also called ‘Movement Education’ and focused on emotional development, aesthetic expression and self expression of the female children (xxxx). The gymnastics educators who were mostly women claimed that teaching gymnastics to girls helped them understand their bodies, nurture healthy emotional growth as well as relevant positive sensibility through dancing, hence promoting good moral and mental health. The process of learning to perform physical skills requires discipline, high level concentration and memory which are characteristic to optimum mental health.

Physical education on self body respect, human body structure and posture, emotional growth in students as well as well as understanding basic body functions has been proven to be critical to the development of a personality, with a sense of responsibility  considerate of the society and the environment in general. As a result diverse support structures have been created to by Government institutions, for public and privately owned schools to ensure that the syllabus produces more rounded individuals capable of tackling an array of challenges facing them as adults by requiring all educations to seek for professional physical Education trainers. More support through the programs that select validated benefit claims by physical education enthusiasts on behalf of the education institutions. The regulations laid down by the national authorities have formulated an education curriculum that has standardized the physical education disseminated in schools to ensure the utmost but realistic results. The results have fostered a societal benefit.