Kids Can Beat Social Anxiety and Build Confidence with Personal Training

What is social anxiety?

Social anxiety is a perception that there is something embarrassing and deficient about us, and, unless we work hard to conceal or hide it, it will be revealed and we will be judged or rejected for it. Ellen Hendriksen, PhD defines social anxiety as “self-consciousness on steroids”.

We look in the mirror, zoom on a perceived flaw like a pimple, and want to hide that perceived flaw. That feeling — that urge to hide — is the exact same feeling that one gets with social anxiety. The only difference is that social anxiety is about our internal self, about our personality or put simply about our social skills.

Kids and social anxiety

More and more children nowadays are developing excessive self-consciousness and this goes beyond common shyness. Many kids nowadays worry so much about being judged negatively by others that they stop doing the things that they need (and want) to do for fear of embarrassing themselves, and this leads to social anxiety.

How does Personal Training help?

Social anxiety is generally treated either by behavioral therapy (Psychotherapeutic) or a combination of behavioral therapy and medication (Pharmacological).

However, kids can beat social anxiety & build confidence with personal training.

Kids need physical activity to build strength, endurance, flexibility, coordination and confidence — and to lay the groundwork for a healthy lifestyle. Structured personal training teaches kids how to exercise in different ways to help their growing bodies get into shape and which boosts their confidence. They also learn skills and habits for keeping a healthy lifestyle resulting into a healthy mind and staying overall fit as they grow up. Also, healthy behaviors last a lifetime.

Parents can see noticeable results in their child’s self-esteem and social behavior with personal training. Many children trained by me, Abhinav Malhotra, and my team who apart from building their strength and physical abilities have reported a huge boost in confidence and their parents have noticed that straightaway in the first month itself. This is one of the many reasons their parents haven’t wanted to stop our structured and progressive personal training for their kids.

Personal training is another way to provide direction, structure, and strategies that help create a habit of healthy living and that can have a tremendous impact on a child’s life. It helps improve motor skills, strength and speed building up confidence and results in the kid overcoming social anxiety or not developing social anxiety at all.

With progressive personal training, kids start caring better for themselves, stop or avoid the habit of negative thinking, and they discover and start applying a positive self-concept in everyday life.

Numerous studies have shown that exercise improves one’s self-esteem, and a sense of well-being. Exercise not only increases feelings of well-being and reduces anxiety, but if done in the company of others it offers the chance to build up social skills in a relatively non-threatening environment. Regular physical activity results in fewer depressive and anxiety symptoms.

Going to the gym, saying hi or making small talk with the other members of the gym and sharing a bit about one’s day, life or goals with the personal trainer are great ways to help beat social anxiety.

A kid should never be allowed to develop the symptom “I can’t do it”. Personal training can help.

Please contact Abhinav to discuss and learn what we can achieve for your kids through personal training in Dubai, UAE.

Also, please contact us to achieve your fat loss, muscle gain, strength gain and figure / physique transformation goals!

You’re also welcome to read this article about kids strength training in Dubai and also watch our video in it https://www.abhifit.com/fitness-and-strength-training-for-kids-in-dubai/

Many female and male clients including kids have greatly benefited from Abhinav’s strong experience as a top personal trainer and nutritionist in Dubai, UAE. You can see some of his client transformations here.

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