Sports- for- all as a means to improve living standards
Abstract
This paper focuses on the importance of physical fitness through physical
activity, which includes sport. It highlights the impact of industrial
revolution as one of the main factors that has contributed to sedentary life
style and environmental pollution. Studies linking better living standards
with regular physical activities and those stressing the link between
physical fitness and mental alertness have been highlighted. In this paper
sports-for-all, must be seen as a fundamental right to every individual in
the society ranging from the young to the old, a view which must include
the less fortunate members of our society who are either physically or
mentally handicapped. In addition, Sports-for-all is seen as the most logical
approach in efforts to avert crisis emanating from lack of physical activity
that include drug dependency and juvenile delinquency most of which
occur as a result of idleness and lack of socially acceptable avenues of
releasing tension and stresses. Human resource development must be given
priority consideration in economic development in every country and hence
the importance of sports-for-all in the process of nation building cannot be
over emphasised.