Play Tennis to Keep Your Health at Its Peak

If you are considering having a sport, choose tennis. There are many healthy ben
efits you can get from playing this sport.
You don't only get physically fit, you mind gets well too.
Here is a list of physiological reasons why you will be excited to play tennis.
1. It burns your fat and boosts your energy levels by increasing your metabolism
and tapping your energy stores.
2. It gives your cardiovascular system a good work thus improving your circulati
on which leads to having better blood supply to the body.
3. It enhances your oxygen muscle consumption whenever you engage in intense act
ivities.
4. It increases your ability to accelerate through sprinting, lounging and jumpi
ng.
5. It trains you to have a quick reaction time and allows you to anticipate move
ments.
6. It develops your speed whenever you do your sprints and side steps to hit the
ball.
7. It strengthens your legs through the number of jumps and lounges you do in th
e court while chasing the ball.
8. It generally develops your body coordination when you move from one position
to the next or whenever you need to adjust your whole body to hit the ball.
9. It also develops your gross motor control especially when you need to use you
r large muscles like your legs and arms to strike a ball.
10. It also improves your fine motor control when you do drop shots, lobs and an
gled-volleys.
11. It enhances your agility whenever you need to change your direction for a nu
mber times in a few seconds whether during tennis match or training.
12. It gives you a dynamic balance beginning with the stance, serve and countles
s of different other movements when hitting and chasing the ball.
13. It gives you variety and a whole new way to improve physically when you are
an athlete who excels in another sport.
14. It strengthens your bone and improves your bone density allowing you to have
a healthy skeleton far from bones diseases like osteoporosis.
15. Because you are exercised by playing tennis, you develop an overall wellness
including having a strong immune system that gives you optimum resistance to di
seases.
16. It also fosters having good nutritional habits because you develop the disci
pline of eating properly before a game to have enough energy and after a competi
tion to properly supplement the energy that you have lost.
17. It also develops good eye-hand coordination when judging when to hit the bal
l.
18. It helps you to be flexible because of the never-ending stretching, twisting
and turning to strike the ball toward the other court.

Meanwhile, here is a list of psychological reasons to play tennis.

18. It develops your sense of work ethic because you need to foster dedication a
nd the value of hard work to learn the lessons in tennis.
19. You also develop discipline because you need to practice a lot and to contro
l your movements, your timing etc.
20. You learn to manage mistakes not just in tennis but also in other aspects of
your life by realizing that you need to manage and minimize your mistakes in th
e game to be successful.
21. You learn to be competitive and adjust to the highs and lows of winning or l
osing.
22. You become more responsible as you accept the fact that it is your responsib
ility to practice your skills, check your equipment, and eat right when preparin
g for a match.
23. You manage to adapt to various situations by learning to adjust to things be
yond your control like the weather.
24. You can adjust to stress easily and effectively because you have already dea
lt with a lot of stress affecting various dimensions of your self.
25. You learn to be strategic as you plan your attack and anticipate the moves o
f your opponent.
26. You develop you skill in problem solving since tennis is a sport that uses g
eometry and physics.
27. You learn to be a sport as it teaches you to be courteous and fair with your
opponents.
28. You learn how to be humble when you win and dignified when you lose.
29. You learn teamwork and camaraderie as you play in doubles.
30. You develop your social skills by interacting and constantly communicating e
ither with your teammate or other players.
31. The most important lesson of all is you learn to have fun and enjoy.