OLAHRAGA DAN KEBUGARAN JASMANI (PHYSICAL FITNESS) PADA ANAK USIA DINI

Abstract

Abstract
Sports and Physical Fitness in Early Age Children. Sports activities are
important for early age children. Through such activities they can improve their
physical fitness and the quality of their organs, including the heart, lungs, blood
circulation, energy metabolism, growth hormones, immune system, and secretion
system. The improvement will result in the higher quality of their physical and
spiritual conditions. Characteristics of good sports activities for early age children
are that: (1) they provide a variety of movements (multilateral training) in the form
of games and competitions, (2) they stimulate the development of all the five
senses, (3) they develop imagination, and (4) they follow a rhythm/song and a
story. Early age children’s physical fitness can be controlled by taking account of
their body composition, namely by maintaining the balance between the food
intake and the physical activities.
Keywords: early age children, sports, physical fitness