Adolescence is a stage of great changes in any person's life. Between 10% and 20% of European adolescents suffer from some mental or behavioral health problem.

Around two million young people suffer from a mental disorder in Europe. Spain is the European country with the highest prevalence of these pathologies in children and adolescents. For experts, a solution may be to play sports. In Spain, today's boys and girls spend approximately 600 kilocalories less per day than those of 50 years ago. The reasons are multifactorial, such as, for example, carrying out more sedentary activities such as watching television, surfing the Internet, or engaging in video games, which have replaced outdoor play. Other reasons cited are that there is less physical exercise in extracurricular activities or the increase in motorized transportation (not walking to school, for example)."Exercising has multiple advantages on a physical level, but during adolescence, it is also essential on a psychological level," says child and adolescent psychologist Lorena González. Mar Planas, a renowned personal trainer, believes that exercise should always be present in our lives. For her, the best way for children to play sports is for them to see their parents doing it. "Exercise produces fun, learning and respect for rules, it promotes socialization, helps tolerate frustration, and strengthens the body," says Abigail Huertas Paton, a psychiatrist and child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Gregorio Maraón Hospital, in Madrid. "Exercise stimulates the secretion of growth factors in the brain that modulates better brain and body development," adds Huertas Paton. "It is easier for people who play sports to eat better, drink less alcohol, or go to bed earlier," says Planas. "We must differentiate between sport and physical activity because the second refers to leading an active life, moving, walking, for example, going up and down stairs, jumping, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking, walking