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Module XVIII: PE 3 Dual Sports

Lesson 1: The Benefits and Purpose of Sports

Introduction
Like most sports, table tennis offers great mind-body stimulation, aerobic exercise, and
social interaction. Some of the many health benefits of table tennis include: Improving hand-eye
coordination. An intense game of table tennis stimulates mental alertness and concentration and
develops mental acuity. Table tennis is an extremely fast-moving sport and demands possibly the
quickest reactions of any of the Olympic disciplines. Table tennis is a very important sport to
keep you fit and healthy.

Objectives
At the end of the lesson, you shall have been able to:
1. Indicate the important benefits of sports in positive health.
2. Define the health benefits and the purpose of sports table tennis.
3. Familiarize the capacity of sports through benefits.
4. Analyze the good result of involving sports activities.

Reading
As well as being a fantastic physical workout, table tennis is also a great mental workout.
All this mental exercise boosts hormone levels and keeps the brain young, which can slow the
progress of cognitive decline that occurs with aging. It is also a sport that is good for social
bonding, with its friendly but competitive nature, it can be enjoyed at your local club where you
can meet new people and form lasting friendships.
It can also be played at home as a great way to spend more quality time together and
bring the family closer. It’s great for working up a sweat and increasing your heart rate, thus
helping to keep your heart strong and healthy. Not only is it a good cardiovascular exercise, but
it is also a great aerobic workout.

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When running about the table your heart rate increases and your body’s requirement for
oxygen becomes much higher, therefore you breathe heavier, faster, and deeper, which increases
lung capacity in addition to how efficiently your lungs use oxygen. Besides being a fun activity
to spend healthy time with your family and friends, there are many health and other benefits of
playing table tennis which you may be surprised to know.

Playing table tennis can have some positive health and fitness benefits including:

 Improves aerobic fitness, with more oxygen circulated the body to better muscular
endurance.
 Burns off calories with energy being supplied to the muscles and not forming fat.
 Boosting flexibility reaction times, due to the fast-paced nature of table tennis, as well as
tactical strategy formation.

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 Improves hand-eye coordination with the concentration required for serving and returning
shots.
 Develops the strength and power of muscles, notably leg and arm muscles.
 Furthers concentration, awareness, and mental strength, with matches often lasting for
some time, helps aid overall brain functioning.
 Improves the nimbleness of players, on their feet.
 Improves social skills as it often leads to friendships formed through the love of this
growing niche.

The benefits and purpose of sports

Aside from being a fun way to spend an afternoon with your family and friends, table
tennis also offers surprisingly great health benefits. Like most sports, table tennis offers great
mind-body stimulation, aerobic exercise, and social interaction.  Unlike many sports, however,
the overall risk for injury with table tennis is quite low.

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1. Enhances Mental Acuity

The spin, placement, and speed of the ball are crucial elements in ping pong and ping
pong players are highly skilled and qualified in these three attributes when it comes to
creating solving and creating puzzles in practical life.
This game not only helps the mind to grow but also creates a mental balance that is required in
today’s frantic life. While playing this game, you need to figure out various strategies to compete
with your opponent and your brain has to be trained to know how the ball is coming your
way and the way to line up the perfect hit.

2. Playing Table Tennis Improve Reflexes

It is a valuable sport when we talk about how to increase the speed of reflexes.
In professional tournaments, when this sport is played by professionals you hardly ever get a
chance to stand as it requires very fast reflexes. Due to the short distance, the fast-paced nature
of table tennis, the gross and fine muscle movements are also improved.
This sport is categorized by bursts of hard work and recovery which leads to fast-twitch muscle
development.

3. Improves Hand-eye Coordination

It stimulates mental vigilance, attentiveness, concentration, and tactical strategy.
You have to strike the ball at the precise moment to make sure it does not go out of the bounded
area. This will happen only when your brain will send signals to your hand which tells it about
the perfect time and range of hitting the ball.

4. It is Easy on the Joints

One of the major and probably the biggest table tennis benefits is that no one is too old or
too young to play table tennis, which means Table tennis has no age limit.
Some sports require an individual to be highly flexible, but this game can be played easily even
if you are old. It is indeed a great way of improving your arm, leg, and core strength without
accentuating your joints.
 

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5. Table Tennis Helps to Burns Calories

One of the health benefits of playing table tennis is that it could burn lots of calories if it
is being played regularly and intensely. You have to catch the ball from the edges and have to
run back and forth as the ball can come to you in any direction. This physical workout while
playing can cause your heart rate and breath to be increased, this physical workout is called
Cardio. And cardio is commonly known to lose weight. It is observed that a person with an
average weight of 70 kg can burn up to 272 calories if he or she plays ping pong for an hour.
Playing ping pong is addictive and entertaining, apart from that it can be an effortless and
amusing way when it comes to burning calories.

6. Playing Table Tennis is Social

In today’s world, people are getting more connected with technology and are getting
disconnected from each other.
Whether you play at home with your friends or at some sports complex, this game enables you to
interact with new people and become friends. Irrespective of age, all the kind of age groups play
this game, which does not imply any social barrier to any kind of specific age group or society.
This game offers the freedom to maintain and build healthy relationships among your
society which also helps in preserving positive vibes among everyone.

7. It Keeps Your Brain Sharp

According to Dr. Daniel  Amen- a known brain imaging specialist, this game is
considered to be the best brain sport. It uses both upper and lower parts of the body and is
super beneficial for reflexes and eye-hand coordination. In short, we can say it is highly aerobic
and stimulates the brain which keeps it sharp.

8. Playing Ping Pong Helps to Prevent Dementia

The consistent playing of table tennis is found to be valuable for persons who are
suffering from Dementia as it also helps in the prevention of Dementia. As it activates various
areas of the brain even which stimulates the awareness and alertness among the players who are
playing ping pong.

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9. Stimulates Different Parts of the Brain

The prefrontal cortex is used for strategic planning by the players while anticipating the
opponent’s shot. Ping pong also stimulates the hippocampus (it is a part of the brain that allows
us to retain and form long term events) as this sport is full of aerobic exercises.

10. Improves Balance by Playing Table Tennis

Staying balanced even after quickly changing the direction is not that easy. The key to
being successful in this game is to maintain balance. Staying balanced often get difficult for the
aged people which they should work upon to accomplish perfection in this game.

11. Improves Your Focus and Mental Acuity

The ball’s spin, placement, and speed are very important in ping pong. The professional
table tennis players are very proficient in creating as well as solving puzzles as those players
have these three significant traits in them.

12. Improves Couples Bonding

Over a game of ping pong, some couples say ‘I do’. If you and your partner are playing
this game one-on-one, it is an excellent way to improve the love and bond between you
both. Some people even keep this game at their wedding to show gratitude and love some
couples have for table tennis. It is observed couples who play this game can resolve their
occasional disagreements much smoother and makes better understanding between them both.

13. Helps You Calm Down

You need to know when to perform your best possible strokes and when to let go of your
thinking. When you can think of this way, it will be much easier for you to win the game. This
happens only when you have come up in the flow. After bursting out the energy at ping pong,
resting out into your daily routine afterward would be much smoother.

14. Ping Pong Teach You How to Win and Loose

It is a magnificent way of getting indulged in healthy competition. The thrill of stealing a
point from your opponent and trying to keep yourself in the game could lead to being in an

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adrenaline rush. If you win, apparently you will feel good. But if you lose that maybe even better
for you as you won’t be able to improve and know your mistakes till the time you will not lose
the game from your opponent. One of the most convenient ways of improving this game is to
have the best ping pong table near you. As you can see the list of the benefits of playing this
game is wide-ranging. Apart from so many benefits, table tennis provides a superlative way to
get moving and spark a bit of healthy competition among any age group.

Self-Assessment Questions (SAQ)

Answer briefly the following questions.
1. Explain the benefits of table tennis.
2. Can table tennis lose by your weight?
3. How many calories do you burn playing ping pong?
4. Are you agree that table tennis is good for your health? If yes and why?
5. Why table tennis sport is a good exercise for your body?

Summary
Playing table tennis stimulates your mental alertness, tactical strategies, concentration,
and focus. It makes tranquil relations among couples if they are playing it regularly one on one
and also help to build the relations among unknowns as this game is dead social. Wherever you
are playing, this game gets you interacted with lots of people leading to a bigger friend circle and
this is especially beneficial for seniors as at their age they need to make new friends and they
need to interact with people to maintain their activeness.
Like most sports, table tennis offers great mind-body stimulation, aerobic exercise, and
social interaction. Some of the many health benefits of table tennis include: Improving hand-eye
coordination. An intense game of table tennis stimulates mental alertness and concentration and
develops mental acuity. Table tennis is a great cardio workout and good for muscle development,
but to improve your strength and stamina you need to add more exercise.
After regular and frequent exercise, you will look and feel better and want to start
increasing your table tennis game level, running times, and weights in the gym. An intense game
of table tennis stimulates mental alertness and concentration and develops mental acuity.
Improving reflexes. Due to the fast-paced, short-distance nature of the sport, both gross and fine

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muscle movements are improved. Unlike other sports, table tennis is easier on the joints; but
like other sports, it will work out your leg, arm, and core muscle strength.

Suggested Enrichment Activity

Give at least 5 examples of the benefits in table tennis and explain why is it important to you?

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