No sport is harmful in itself. And the benefits that movement brings still outweigh the risk of injury, says physiotherapist Tereza Nováková, who deals with the movement of children and adolescents. According to her, children move tragically little.
In the interview we ask her:
how many hours of exercise protect children from problems; whether the trampoline is harmful to children; how movement trains the heart and lungs; what are the pitfalls of early performance sports; where parents make a mistake and where the system fails.
We hear everywhere that children don’t move and just look at their mobile phones. If only adults were much better at it. But I would like to start optimistically. Is there a positive trend in relation to children’s movement? Or is it desperate?
Definitely not desperate. I’m thinking…
You think a little long.
There are actually many more problems than positives. But there is certainly more variability in what children can do these days. The availability of activities is quite large. Although how where.
There is a big difference between big cities and “the countryside”. In the past, rural children were better in ability and performance parameters, now they are getting worse. In cities, the infrastructure for active movement and circles of movement activities are more accessible.
However, there is a significant gap between children who play a sport at a performance level, practice, race, and those who do nothing.
So our optimism didn’t last.
Unfortunately. Although children have since birth
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