Main benefits of sport Literacy

 Main Benefits of Sport Literacy

 

Prevents chronic diseases

Teaching and learning sport literacy helps prevent chronic diseases promoting physical health and providing a variety of ways that physical activity can be competed, whether that’s by yourself, with a couple of friends or a team of players. Risks of diseases such as cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, infectious diseases and some cancers can be reduced by doing the minimum of 150 minutes a week of moderate physical activity, and can be further prevented by doing regular physical activity (CDC, 2024).



Many different psychological benefits

The psychological benefits of physical health and literacy extend far, with systematic evaluations indicating that physical activity is helping provide better outcomes for different mental illnesses and diseases, as well as helping improve “numerous psychological effects, such as self esteem, cognitive function, mood, depression and quality of life” (Mahindru et al., 2023). Not only this but studies even suggest that physical activity help with deal with and lower stress, improve sleep, attention, focus, memory and many other functions associated to the brain. 



Positive motor skills 

Physical literacy provides many different avenues to complete, compete and have fun in different sports, activities and hobbies, so while sport literacy has the ability to give you options on different physical activities you can do, it also gives you the motivation, ways to become motivated and the knowledge that physical activity is actually really healthy and can help you live a long and prosperous life. As the Australian sports commission explains, “Physical literacy involves holistic lifelong learning through movement and physical activity. It delivers physical, psychological, social and cognitive health and wellbeing benefits.” (AIS, 2019)



Improved chances of healthy habits

As physical literacy provides you with all of the mental equipment and knowledge to complete different activities, ways to extend and make those activities harder but also easier, that knowledge creates the space to do small, healthy activities that can make all the difference and can build to bigger activities, sports or physical activity. Not only this but the knowledge of the benefits of that physical activity provides motivation and drive to do the right thing for your body and mind, helping get into and stay in a physical activity groove. 

 

Improves confidence and competence in sport

Learning and having the knowledge of different sports allows you to not only have the basic skills to start out in that sport but also how to improve in that sport and where to find extra information to improve on your skills. By experiencing and learning those new sports in the first place, you will be able to have the confidence in firstly having the basic skills to participate in that sport but also going through the learning of a new sport again.

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