How tennis benefits your body?

Tennis is a good sports activity for fat burning and strengthening. Tennis helps to build agility, balance and strength of our body. Research shows that 3 hours of tennis in a week helps to cut half the risk of heart diseases. Also tennis includes short bursts of activity so as helps to strengthen the arms and lower body.

Some benefits of playing tennis are-
* Increases Cardiovascular fitness: It helps in burning fat and improving your cardiovascular fitness and maintaining higher energy levels. Since it is a high intensity sport, it helps your heart to pump the blood more efficiently.
* Increases body strength: It is also a very high impact sport which involves a lot of exertion and movement. This increases your hand and leg strength. The high impact nature of the sport results in stronger bones and toned muscles.
* Increases general body coordination: It is indeed a sport that involves the entire body coordination. You have to move into position and then adjust your upper body and feet, and transfer body weight to hit the ball successfully. This increases your reflexes and gives you the ability to accelerate quickly.
* Increases Flexibility: It involves a constant movement which results in making your body more flexible and more stretchable.
* Extremely good for weight loss: This sport is perfect for someone who is tired to go to the gym and wants to try something different. Men can burn up to 560 calories an hour, women up to 420 calories an hour.