Does Participation In These Sports Need To Be Highly Competitive For You To Have A Healthier Lifestyle?
Does participation in these sports need to be highly competitive for you to have a healthier lifestyle?
Participation in any sports for example basketball, does not need to be highly competitive for me to have a healthier lifestyle. For as long as I am actively participating on it its fine for me.
We can gain lots of benefits in actively participating in sports and recreational activities. These include health, physical, mental, emotional, and social benefits.
Health Benefits
- road map to good health and longevity
- improved quality of life
- lower blood pressure, reduced arthritis pain, weight loss and lowered risk of diabetes, certain cancers, osteoporosis and cardiovascular diseases.
- It improves muscle tone and strength.
Mental and Emotional Benefits
- improves focus and self confident
- release of stress from demands of everyday living
- greater personal confidence and self-esteem
- sense of achievement
- reducing risks of depression, anxiety, psychological distress, and emotional disturbance
- putting ones self away from drugs and any related activity like alcohol consumption.
Physical Benefits
- improvement of skills specific to a particular activity
- relaxation, rest, and revitalization
- Muscle performance improvement
- Stamina improvement
- Muscle strength improvement
- Physical endurance improvement
Social Benefits
- bonding with family and friends
- gain more friends in doing the activity
- opportunity to make new friends and acquaintances
- strengthen social networks and community identity
Lifestyle
It refers to the interest or way on how a person live his/her life. It is a choice made by person and it can be change from time to time.
Example:
Physically, people wanted to have a healthy lifestyle by choosing and maintaining a healthy diet and physical exercise.
- Taking vitamins.
- Eating vegetables and less rice.
- Eating foods with less cholesterol.
- Doing some exercises everyday.
Lifestyle is not only limited to physical health but in all aspect of health. It could be for emotional health, spiritual health, mental, environmental health. It can also be good and bad to your health depending on the activity you choose.
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