• Football is the only sport that draws maximum crowd compared to any other sport.

• Just like all other sports football has all the health benefits from cardiovascular health to boosting health and burning calories.

• Football involves a lot of running around the field with the ball. The players also don’t require much sporting gear to play the game. Cleat shoes, socks, shin protector, and head gear are some of the equipment used by players generally.

• Football can be played any time anywhere as long as you have the football ball.

We love to watch the cricketers being on their feet for 8 to 9 hours at a stretch. The benefit of the sport reaches far beyond the sheer enjoyment of the game. Along with friendly competition and fresh air, the game involves rigorous physical activity, agility, focus and loads of patience.

Cricket helps in Endurance and stamina, Balance and coordination, Physical fitness, improving hand-eye coordination, Team skills, Social skills such as cooperation, communication and learning how to cope with winning and losing.

Cricket requires an open field preferably. While playing for fun, it only requires a bat and a cricket ball, but for better performance and safety, it is advisable to have the right equipment.

• Collared shirt (usually white) with short or long sleeves depending on the climate or personal preference.

• Long trousers (usually white).

• Jockstrap with cup pocket into which a “box”, or protective cup, is inserted and held in place.

• Abdominal guard “box” or an L Guard for male batsmen and wicket-keepers (often referred to as a cup, box or abdo guard). It is usually constructed from high density plastic with a padded edge, shaped like a hollow half-pear, and inserted into the jockstrap with cup pocket underwear of the batsmen and wicket-keeper. This is used to protect the crotch area against impact from the ball.

• Sun hat, Cricket cap or baseball cap.

• Spiked shoes to increase traction.

• Helmet(often with a visor), worn by batsmen and fielders close to the batsman on strike to protect their heads.

• Leg pads, worn by the two batsmen and the wicket-keeper, used to protect the shin bone against impact from the ball. The wicket-keeping pads are slightly different from the batsmen’s. Fielders that are fielding in close to the batsmen may wear shin guards under their trousers.

• Gloves for batsmen only, thickly padded above the fingers and on the thumb of the hand, to protect against impact from the ball.

• Thigh guard, arm guards, chest guard, and elbow guards to protect the body of the batsmen. Some batsmen use these and others do not, since they reduce mobility.

• Wicket-keeper’s gloves for the wicket-keeper. Usually includes webbing between the thumb and index fingers.

At APS, we believe that a child’s total well-being, both psychological and physical, can be strengthened simultaneously.

While the physical aspects of exercise and Martial Arts training improve your child’s general health, it likewise improves emotional health with increased self-esteem and self-confidence as well as decreased tension, stress, anxiety and depression.

Here are just a few of the Benefits of our Martial Arts Course for your child:

• Self-Defense, Focusing and Listening, Teamwork and Positive Social Interaction, Self-Control and Good Decision Making, Balance and Posture, Memorization and Retention, Self-Discipline and Responsibility, Physical Fitness and Healthy Living, Coordination and Motor Skills, Self-Esteem and Confidence Building, stranger Awareness and Personal Safety, Respect, Discipline, Behavior and School, Great Physical Fitness while Battling Childhood Obesity etc.

• Judo Karate requires a special uniform, Karategi is the formal Japanese name for the traditional uniform used for Karate practice and competition. It is fastened at waist using a belt made from same cloth of the main uniform. For beginners the color of belt is white, but as they clear levels, the color of belt changes from white to yellow, to orange to green, to blue to brown and in the end to black.

• Volleyball, game played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, in which the players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the ball touch the court within the opponents’ playing area before it can be returned.

• Just like all other sports Volleyball has all the health benefits from cardiovascular health to boosting health and burning calories.

• Volleyball is a popular beach sport. You just need a volleyball ball, 2 teams of equal number of players and a volleyball net.

Badminton is a great game both as a professional and recreational one. It requires not only skill but also extensive body movement which helps to keep you physically fit and strong.

Quite frankly, badminton has become a very popular game among all age groups nowadays, and it is fairly easy to play. Moreover, you don’t need to be standing on a badminton court to play badminton.

Just like all other sports Badminton also has many health benefits, but following 2 benefits you get mostly from Badminton.

• Speedy shuttlecock develops physical and mental agility

Don’t let the innocent-looking shuttlecock deceive you into believing badminton is an easy game. With a top speed of 201mph you have to be physically swift to reach it and mentally agile to work out where to move to return it and how to hit it to win.

The combined agility of mind and body that results breeds fantastic reflexes in the body and advances the ability to process thoughts and accurately develop a plan of action both on and off court.

• More reach leads to better balance and flexibility

The higher incidence of overhead hits compared with other sports means the body is in a less stable shape than the grounded and steady returns of other racket sports. When this is experienced repeatedly the body gradually becomes accustomed to being extended while moving.

Over time this improves balance as the core muscles rise to a new challenge during play.

Additionally, the extension of the body and elevation of the arm are great for flexibility too. So, while many sports tighten muscles, badminton helps to lengthen them.

For playing badminton you just need a pair of badminton rackets and a shuttlecock.

• Also called Ping-Pong, ball game similar in principle to lawn tennis and played on a flat table divided into two equal courts by a net fixed across its width at the middle. The object is to hit the ball so that it goes over the net and bounces on the opponent’s half of the table in such a way that the opponent cannot reach it or return it correctly.

• Just like all other sports Table Tennis has all the health benefits from Playing improves hand-eye coordination, develops mental acuity, improves reflexes, it’s easy on the joints, keeps your brain sharp, improves coordination and balance and Stimulates various different parts of the brain.

• To play table tennis you require Table-tennis table with net and a pair of paddles/rubber rackets and table tennis ball.

• The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a group are referred to as the “horizontal jumps”.

• Just like other sports long jump also has it’s own benefits, to name some –

• Build Muscle, Injury Prevention, improve bio-mechanics, Co-ordination and strengthen leg muscles.

Believe it or not, athletics is actually a great way to increase your overall level of health. Research shows that running can raise your levels of good cholesterol while also helping you increase lung function and use. In addition, running can also boost your immune system and lower your risk of developing blood clots.

• Neurosciences have studied treadmill runners, ultra marathon athletes – and a number of lab animals – to investigate the effects of running on grey matter.

• Their findings confirm what many runners know from their own experience: we can use running as a tool to improve the way we think and feel.

• Apart from that running Improves Memory Retention and Brain Development, It Keeps You Healthy and Boosts Confidence, Keeps You Alert etc.

• For athletics all you need is to strap on a good pair of skid free shoes. You can run anytime, anywhere, but its advisable to avoid heavy traffic area and streets.

Shot Put is played with a heavy spherical object popularly known as shot. The aim is to throw the shot-put as far as possible through a pushing action. It requires immense muscular strength and a good balance upon your body.

• Shot Put helps in bone density, strengthening, concentration, developing hands and leg muscles and building them. It also helps in boosting patience, mental state etc.

• For Shot Put, you need the shot-put ball and a well grip skid free shoe. To mark the progress of your throw, you draw 2 horizontal lines – a starting line and finish line on the ground.

As a parent, many of you think about your child’s future, how you can help him/her to go in a right way. The most important thing in your parental mission is to try to find out what will be the best for your kids.

• Chess helps prevent Alzheimer’s
• It grows Dendrites
• Chess raises your kids IQ
• It increases kid’s problem-solving skills
• Chess improves spatial skills
• It improves the memory of your child
• It exercises both sides of the brain
• It increases the creativity of your kid
• It improves the concentration your child.
• Chess teaches planning and foresight