Very often, parents try to impose their dreams on the child. Sure, you can find a lot of arguments for, but believe me, there are many arguments against.
10. Responsibility
The life of children who play sports professionally is not as pleasant as it seems at first glance. In their dreams, parents see only victories, awards, universal recognition. They do not think that their child will lose their childhood. All his free time will be occupied by training and competitions. The child will not be able to run and play with other children, simply because he will not have time for this. In addition, the level of psychological stress is very high. Such children are afraid not to live up to the expectations of their parents. They constantly feel responsible. They understand that they owe absolutely everything. Parents because they hope for a high result. To the coach, because he made a lot of efforts to make the child win. Teachers and classmates also expect victory from him. Whether your child can cope with responsibility is up to you.
9. Stretching
Gymnasts should have a good stretch. Very often this process is accompanied by pain, tears, screams. The trainer stretches the muscles, acting on them with force. Stretching on the bridge is considered especially dangerous when there is a strong effect on the spine. Usually, the gymnasts disrupt the work of the abdominal organs, and girls often have problems with gynecology. But usually children and even their teachers think little about health. The coach requires good feedback in the classroom, the child tries, strains, gives all his strength. As a result, it gets tensile. Severe pain, prolonged treatment - this is what all the little gymnasts have to go through. In rare cases, you have to do an operation to restore the ligaments.
8. The importance of choosing a coach
Parents do not always choose the right trainer. But this is a very important step. For the majority, the main criterion is the number of awards of his students, their high results, victories. With this wrong approach, your child is likely to have a hard time. Better pay attention to the number of injuries of small gymnasts. A good trainer should have a sense of proportion, not make high demands on the child. He should have an idea of the correct effect on the body, develop a training plan in which the harm to the health of the child will be minimal.
7. Diseases of the back
Even the smallest gymnasts often have back problems. Many diseases lie in wait for them: curvature of the spine, pain, fracture of the arches of the vertebrae, their sliding. This list can be continued for a long time, but think about whether you want such a fate for your child. If the disease does not manifest itself at an early age, this does not guarantee their appearance after a few years. Usually a gymnast’s career ends by the age of 18, and then problems begin. Many girls are treated for herniated discs. We can say that back pain is a professional disease of gymnasts.
6. Diseases of bones and joints
According to the recommendations of doctors, the training time for a child should not exceed 3 hours. In fact, rarely does any coach comply with these standards. With such active training, bone and joint diseases often develop. Often, to deceive the pain, problem areas are bandaged with elastic bandages. Osteochondropathy, arthrosis are diseases that very often small gymnasts fall ill with. Classes in gymnastics provoke diseases of the knee joint, ankle, elbow joint. When practicing rhythmic gymnastics, the knee, ankle, and foot suffer.
5. High workload
As noted above, gymnasts are deprived of childhood. They have to make a choice between classes and study. Are you ready for your child to skip classes, do homework on the go? Teachers can and will turn a blind eye to knowledge gaps, due to high sports achievements, but do not forget that the child will have to pass exams, no one can help him there. After all, it was not in vain that there was a stereotype that many athletes are not distinguished by high intelligence. Of course, he is greatly exaggerated, but there is a small fraction of the truth in this. They have no time to study. If your child wants to devote his whole life to sports, then he will live without a diploma from a prestigious institute. If not, he will have to be torn between school and sport.
4. Risk of serious injury
If your child does rhythmic gymnastics, you can breathe out. The risk of serious injury in these activities is low. But if he (or you) chose a sports one, you are guaranteed a life like on a powder keg. You will experience strong emotions every day. Flips, exercises on high bars or logs are very dangerous. At any time, you can break, fall, damage yourself something. A fracture of the spine or a fracture of the cervical spine will put an end not only in a sports career. The child may die, and if he survives, he will forever remain disabled.
3. Pain
Your child will experience pain all the time: sprains, injuries, muscle pain after exercise. If adult athletes are normal about pain, then children experience it hard. They are not used to her. It is doubly painful when they cannot control this pain on their own, for example, when stretching by a trainer. But do not hope that when the child is older, he will cease to feel pain. On the contrary, adults lose their flexibility, and the pain is felt even more. A person who has decided to devote his life to sports will have to put up with pain.
2. Diet
All athletes must have a good figure. Gymnasts should be slender, fragile. If the child does not have a tendency to be overweight, he is lucky. But even if the child has a normal body weight, he is likely to be forced to lose weight. Can you refuse your child sweets, pastries, tasty and nutritious food? Not every adult can sustain a diet, and a child is doubly hard. He is growing, he needs vitamins and nutrients. If you regularly limit the child's diet, delayed sexual development may occur.
1. The need for a full examination
Before giving the child to the gym, you need to conduct a thorough examination of his body. If this is not done, you can cause significant harm to his body. Children with weak ligaments have the greatest flexibility. Regular training exacerbates the situation, diseases can go into a chronic form. Get ready for the fact that a full examination will need to be carried out more than once. Your child’s health matters only to you; don’t shift the responsibility to the trainer. In most cases, he doesn't care what happens next with your child. Control his health on his own, and it’s better to completely abandon this venture. Let your child decide what he wants to do.