Impacts Of Too Much Stress On Youths Sports

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Impacts of Too Much Stress on Youth’s Sports

Introduction

Youth sports are significant parts of the societies' sporting activities today. The sporting activities

allow the youth to develop, both mentally and physically. One of the sports programs is the

athletics. The approach adopted to help children grow their skills should be positive on them.

Sports programs have many advantages, such as improving the kids in many aspects, especially

health wise. However, most parents or coaches apply a lot of pressure on children, thus bringing

with it lots of disadvantages. A youth athlete may emotionally or physically get exhausted in the

sporting activities thus forcing them to opt out. Although youth sports have a lot of positive

impacts, too much pressure that the youth athletes go through putting them at a higher risk of

developing burnout and increase chances of injury, as described below.

Arguments for greater risks

Youth athletes have a significant chance of developing a burnout when they get too much pressure.

The athletes typically gain a lot from the sports activities. However, their peers, coaches or even

parents may influence the development of burnout or injury by their actions towards the athletes

(Eklund, Robert and Scott 122). When a burnout situation occurs, the youth may withdraw from

any competition. The withdrawal maybe as a result of the loss of interest or lack of enough

motivation. The pressures may be either from the coaches or the peers. For instance, when athlete’s

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professional training is linked with a given competition scheduling, they are likely to have the

pressure (Brenner 1243). Hence, they risk attaining injuries or fatigues either physically or

mentally. Thus, fatigues occur as result of strength to train and in the end, achieve the best in any

upcoming competitions hence resulting in total withdrawal from the game or even injuries.

The distress may also arise from the coach responsible for guiding the kids. For example,

a coach may set goals which are unrealistic for one to achieve. The athletes wanting to give their

coach the best would do much more for their age. The pressure of wanting to meet the coach'

targets may be too much for the player. Parents as well may affect their kids in one way or another

especially those who never had the chance to achieve their dreams in sports. The pressure from

the parent may affect their relations negatively (Dangi, Tek and Peter 440 ). With stress from the

relationship between the kids and the parents, the youth's performance gets affected. Thus, the

result may be burnout or even an injury (Neal 189). Worse than all are the parents who may use

their kids to bring out their unfulfilled dreams. A parent may not have had a chance to fulfill their

sporting dreams in athletics. As a result, they tend to address these through their kids putting them

through so much pressure. The outcome for the youth may be burnout or attain injury with the

stress from the parents.

The highly competitive nature of the athletics activities may appear more demanding

binging more pressures. The youths, therefore, may have less time with their peers as well as their

parents (Geter 408). Every kid needs that parental guidance and the control from the peers.

Spending less time with the parents or peers may lead to a decision of withdrawal from the sporting

programs. Another distress may arise in a situation where social media is involved. For instance,

the nature of publicity may have an impact on an athlete’s performance. Where the promotion is

weak, the psyche of the youth gets affected in a negative way (Koolbreeze 895). The poor publicity

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or the spotlight on a constant basis impacts the athlete. The society also expects the renowned

athletes to maintain a specific image. All the pressures from the public may create distress which

eventually may bring the burnout effect. Similarly, the player may distress when there is so much

need for success in the competition. In most cases, the game tends to outdo any fun or excitement.

The pressure of wanting to achieve higher may decrease the fun part of the activity.

Arguments against the greater risk

However, there may be situations when the pressure may be positive leading to better results. The

teenager may not take it negatively but feel the weight is for their benefit. Thus, the athlete gets

prepared for the best results in competition. When an athlete is getting ready for a great match, the

definite need for high performance from the peers helps them to take up the challenge. The

youngsters will not feel too much stress in them to train. Instead, the athletes see the pressure as a

push that will achieve excellent results in the end. Therefore, the youth athletes stay focused, alert,

and maintain a healthy attitude. Athletes pick up the pressure with a positive attitude in that they

will rest once their performance comes to an end. The pressure may at times comes from parents

but also on a real basis (Hellstedt 5971). For instance, a promising competition which may earn a

youth into a scholarship. The pressure coming from either the parent or the coaches may be to

benefit the child in the end. The parent will be supportive in a way that they want the best for their

kids to attain the scholarship. Eventually, the pressure taken positively by the teen athlete earns

both the player and the society.

Conclusion

In essence, sporting activities are essential to the youths. The events help them develop not only

physically but also mentally. Youth athletes tend to enjoy the games for fun as they compete for

their schools or society. A person who has a history of participating in the games from childhood

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has the experience once they become youths. The youth may have a lot of pressure from their peers

as well as coach. The influence may be harmful or positive for the teenagers. However, in most

cases, the pressure is negative which eventually makes the kids burn out or get injured. Too much

distress on the kids makes them opt out of the competitions or the team. The pressure may come

from the coach or parents as well as the public which may reduce the psyche of an athlete. The

society, as well as the peers, may have a lot of expectations that the youth may not meet thus

leading them to disappointment and burnouts.

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