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What Are The Benefits Of Tennis?

by Pallavi
Posted August 18, 2010 at 10:30 PM

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  • Posted August 19, 2010 at 6:56 AM
    Tennis is a form aerobic exercise which helps to boost your cardiovascular endurance. Also helps to improve your flexibility and dynamic balance. When played as a recreational activity it helps in release of feel good hormones like seritonin which helps in reliving stress.
  • Priyanka Bhawalkar wrote
    Posted February 17, 2011 at 1:51 AM
    There are so many health benefits of playing tennis. They are as follows-
    * 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.
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