BENEFITS OF BADMINTON

Badminton offers a whole host of benefits ranging from increasing life expectancy and
mobility to promoting heart health and exercise for all ages and abilities.

Find out more about the benefits of introducing badminton as part of your weekly fitness
regime right here:

1. Badminton is a Total Body Workout

While you’re lunging, diving, running and getting your heart pumping, playing a game of
badminton can help you burn around 450 calories an hour. The varied movements
provide a powerful cardio workout by engaging the entire body, including the hamstrings,
quads, calves and your core.

2. Socialising
For adults, we recommend taking 30 minutes of exercise, five times a week. Due to
increased home and work life responsibilities, some of us may be guilty of not doing as
much physical activity as we should. Badminton is a fun and flexible sport that can be
enjoyed around your busy schedule. Our courts are available to hire during the day, in the
evenings and on weekends. You can even use your workout as an opportunity to
socialise and catch-up with friends and family.

3. Badminton Improves Your Mental Wellbeing

Taking part in any form of regular physical activity helps to release our natural feel good
happy hormones, endorphins. In turn, this can help reduce depression, anxiety and stress
and improve our overall mood and sleep. Talking to other players and rallying in singles
or doubles means that badminton is a social sport. This can be particularly beneficial in
combating loneliness among older players.

4. Heart Health
A healthy heart is essential to ensure your body functions correctly and properly.
Badminton decreases the levels of ‘bad’ cholesterol, which can block your blood vessels
and improves the levels of good cholesterol. This leads to a reduced risk of hypertension
(high blood pressure), heart attack and stroke.

5. Badminton Helps Reduce Health Risks

Badminton can reduce the risks of developing type two diabetes as an adult. It reduces
the production of sugar in the liver, which in turn reduces the body’s fasting blood sugar.
Whereas for children and young adults, chasing the shuttlecock and moving around the
court at a fast pace can aid in developing bone mass and density. This lessens the
likelihood of osteoporosis in the future.

6. Increased Life Expectancy

A Danish study carried out on 9,000 people, found that playing a racket-based sport such
as badminton can increase your life expectancy by approximately six years. Football can
increase life expectancy by more than four years, while cycling, swimming and jogging
can each boost life expectancy by over three years.

7. Improved Mobility
As we age, our mobility gradually begins to become more limited. We can prevent this by
ensuring we lubricate our joints by keeping up with our fitness regime and remaining
active. It also helps to minimise the risk of arthritis and other joint issues.

8. Badminton is a Flexible Exercise

Everyone can enjoy badminton, regardless of your fitness or health. You can choose a
more or less intense workout by altering the pace you’re playing at. This is to suit your
individual needs and the needs and abilities of the other players.

9. Child Friendly
With kids getting more and more tech savvy, using smart phones, tablets and the TV as
forms of entertainment. It can sometimes be difficult to motivate your children to get out
and about and take part in physical activity outside of school. By bringing them to a
badminton session they’ll be able to learn about the importance of health and fitness and
learn new skills. Plus you’ll be able to have a superb time as a whole family.

What values could you learn from playing badminton?

Improves inter personal skills

Badminton is a two person sport. Playing against an opponent will not only help improve
your game but also enables you to learn and cultivate good values such as fair play
and sportsmanship. In case of doubles you get a chance to partner up with another
and form a team.

these values include:

 Ethics, fair play and honesty.
 Health.
  Excellence in performance.
 Fun and joy.
 Teamwork.
 Dedication and commitment.
 Respect for rules and laws.
 Respect for self and other participants.
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