Nowadays, college students are overburdened due to the influence of study, career choice, economic pressure and social, school, family and personal factors, which leads to many psychological obstacles and diseases. At the same time, college students shoulder the mission entrusted by history and people. Whether they are mentally healthy or not will not only directly affect their healthy growth, but also affect the rise and fall of the country and the nation. Therefore, efforts to improve this situation and improve the mental health level of college students can not be ignored.
Aerobics is a sport that integrates sports and art, fitness and entertainment. It attracts students with its unique characteristics and charm and is deeply loved by them. Aerobics has a good effect from the perspective of affecting human health, especially for controlling weight, losing weight, improving body shape, improving coordination and rhythm. So its positive impact on physical health is obvious, but what impact does it have on students' mental health? This paper discusses the influence of aerobics on college students' mental health in theory, so as to improve their mental health level, cultivate lifelong sports habits and shape qualified talents.
2 Characteristics and functions of aerobics
2. 1 Characteristics of aerobics
2. 1. 1 The artistry of high-level artistic aerobics is mainly reflected in its project characteristics of "health, strength and beauty". Aerobics movements are coordinated, smooth and elastic, which enables practitioners to exercise and strengthen their physique, but also to enjoy beauty and improve their aesthetic consciousness and artistic accomplishment.
2. 1.2 Strong rhythmic gymnastics is deeply loved. In addition to the efficacy and sense of the times, a very important factor is that modern music has brought vitality to aerobics. The strong rhythm of aerobics movements and music makes aerobics practice more infectious.
2. 1.3 A wide range of adaptive aerobics exercises have various forms, the amount of exercise can be large or small, it is easy to control, and the requirements for venue equipment are not high. It is suitable for people of all ages, sexes, physical fitness and technical level, and all kinds of people can find their own ways from aerobics and have fun from aerobics.
2. 1.4 Safety of Fitness The exercise load and rhythm of aerobics design fully consider the feasibility of a series of stimulation results caused by exercise, making it suitable for the general people's physique, even the aerobic range that people with physique can bear. It is very safe and effective for people to follow the fast and orderly rhythm on the flat ground and in the cheerful music.
2.2 the function of aerobics
2.2. 1 promoting health beauty "health beauty" is a positive health concept and modern consciousness. Previous studies have shown that "health beauty" is the most effective state for the body to function. A person with "healthy beauty" not only feels good about himself, can easily cope with daily work and life, but also has plenty of energy to participate in various social, entertainment and leisure activities, and can spontaneously cope with sudden pressure.
2.2.2 Through aerobic exercise, especially strength exercises, the beauty of the body is shaped, but the bones are strong and the muscle circumference is increased, thus making up for the congenital physical defects and making people evenly fit. Secondly, aerobics exercises can also eliminate excess fat in the body and on the body surface and form a beautiful posture.
2.2.3 Relieve mental stress, entertainment Physical and mental scientific research shows that physical exercise can relieve mental stress and prevent the occurrence of various diseases. Aerobics, as a sport, is famous for its graceful, coordinated and comprehensive exercise, accompanied by rhythmic music, which is a good way to relieve mental stress. In addition, aerobic exercise enhances people's social interaction. Everyone dances together, exercises together, * * * is happy and encourages each other, which can make people get a kind of spiritual enjoyment in exercise and meet their psychological needs.
2.2.4 Health aerobics is not only good for healthy people, but also an ideal health care means for some patients, the disabled and the elderly. For example, for patients with lower limb paralysis, you can do ground aerobics and water aerobics to maintain the upper body and promote the recovery of lower limb function. As long as the range and amount of exercise are well controlled, aerobics can achieve the purpose of medical care on the basis of preventing injuries.
3. The influence of aerobics on mental health
3. 1 Aerobics helps to eliminate bad emotions, psychological barriers and treat mental diseases.
In modern society, due to the pressure of study and other aspects, the frustration of college students may produce negative emotions of pessimism and disappointment, which will lead to psychological obstacles such as depression, loneliness and autism. Research shows that sports can help people get rid of negative emotions such as depression and pessimism, reduce anxiety and eliminate psychological barriers such as depression, so that children can maintain psychological balance and achieve mental health. Aerobics has its unique activities and forms, which enable students to get the pleasure of "learning", "growing", "achieving" and "winning" with beautiful music accompaniment. These experiences of sports satisfaction and accomplishment can alleviate bad emotions and have a good effect on eliminating psychological barriers. Aerobics belongs to aerobic exercise with moderate exercise intensity. In recent years, the cardiotonic effect of aerobic exercise has been confirmed by more and more scientific research, which can not only relieve depression, but also treat long-term moderate anxiety, depression and other psychological diseases.
3.2 Aerobics helps to cultivate aesthetic awareness.
Aerobics is an artistic sport, and it is often practiced to show the beauty of movements. In appreciating music, we should strengthen the sense of rhythm and sense of rhythm, taste the beauty of music, and improve music literacy and appreciation ability; In physical exercise, cultivate students' elegant temperament and pursue physical beauty. In this way, students can get a kind of aesthetic feeling that their emotions are stimulated and vented, and a sense of satisfaction from knowing beauty, appreciating beauty, pursuing beauty, expressing beauty, creating beauty and expressing beauty to experiencing beauty and enjoying beauty, so as to comprehensively improve students' physical quality and cultural and artistic quality.
3.3 Aerobics helps to form a strong will.
There are many asymmetrical movements in aerobics, and the movements of upper and lower limbs are complex, which requires the strength and amplitude of movements and lasts for a long time, especially for aerobic aerobics that lasts for more than an hour. It is necessary to overcome physiological limits, temper students' willpower and endurance to overcome fatigue, and form a tough will quality. Flying in difficult movements can exercise students' brave will. At the same time, exercising with strong music accompaniment will often make students forget fatigue and improve their physical endurance unconsciously. College students should form good psychological qualities such as hard-working, perseverance, decisiveness, courage, self-control and self-confidence, which should be a bargaining chip to gain a foothold in the competitive world.
3.4 Aerobics helps to improve expressive force and enhance self-confidence.
As the saying goes, "everyone loves beauty." Although some people have noticed the importance of their own value, shyness has restrained their performance. Aerobics is a skillful physical activity, which is different from other sports. Aerobics as a means to provide students with a place for self-expression, constantly stimulate the enthusiasm of performance, into performance behavior, improve expressive force. The improvement of expressive force will make the psychological state more stable. In the process of learning, students will be guided step by step, realize their abilities, and constantly complete their actions, while enhancing their self-confidence.
3.5 Aerobics is conducive to developing intelligence and improving innovation ability.
Intelligence refers to the synthesis of cognitive abilities that people must have when completing learning activities. It is the basic condition for people to successfully complete their study and work tasks, and normal intelligence is the foundation of mental health. Regular participation in aerobics is helpful to improve students' attention, memory, thinking ability and imagination, promote the development and utilization of the brain, enhance the function of the nervous system, promote the blood circulation of the brain, improve the function of the respiratory system, and make the brain get more nutrition, which is beneficial to the memory and thinking in images of the brain. In addition, it can also eliminate the fatigue caused by mental work to a certain extent, improve learning efficiency, and fully tap and develop the potential of learning.
3.6 Aerobics helps to enhance the awareness of lifelong exercise and form good physical habits.
The purpose of setting up physical education class in colleges and universities is to improve health, improve college students' physical quality, cultivate healthy physique and psychology to meet social competition and challenges, enhance exercise awareness and develop lifelong sports habits. Aerobics has strong exercise effect, appropriate exercise load and difficulty, and is attractive. It can stimulate students' interest in sports, devote themselves to practice wholeheartedly, and achieve good results, enhance their initiative to participate in exercise consciously, gradually form good exercise habits, and lay a solid foundation for lifelong sports.
4 conclusion
Aerobics, with its unique activity content and form, has a positive impact on college students' mental health, which is irreplaceable by any other way or means. In cheerful and intense music, students' self-enclosed consciousness can be completely liberated and their nervousness can be eliminated. The harmonious and elegant artistic atmosphere in the activity can enhance students' awareness and desire of communication and improve their interpersonal skills. Long-term aerobic exercise with a certain intensity can exercise students' will, promote intellectual development and enhance self-awareness. Organized and purposeful performances or competitions can stimulate students' initiative, improve their emotional state, study hard and pursue healthy and positive life goals. Aerobics can establish a comprehensive health concept among college students, straighten out the relationship between fitness and mental health, promote students' physical and mental health, and activate campus cultural life, which is worth popularizing.