Game, Set and Match: Tennis is the Winner

No matter how you like to play tennis, whether it be singles, doubles, or playing by yourself with a backboard, you’ll no doubt agree that this is a complex and taxing sport! This is a sport which works your mind as well as every major muscle group in your body, and really pushes your cardiovascular system! No matter your age and ability, tennis is an excellent way to get fit and socialise. Here are our top reasons to take up tennis and enjoy the Outdoor Play and Fitness center located at Garza Blanca Preserve.

It Helps Protect Your Heart

Staying heart healthy is a real struggle for many people, and it only gets tougher as we age. Tennis is a sport that you can play at your own pace, but one that will still help to increase your cardiovascular health through interval activity. This means a lower risk of heart disease, strokes, and heart attacks even later into life.

It Works Your Entire Body, and Burns Fat

The unique combination of crouching, running, starting and stopping, and the actual batting of the ball, which works your arms, shoulders, back, and core. This is a whole body workout which will tone every inch of your body, and, furthermore, can burn between 400 – 600 calories per hour. On top of all that, the intervals of maximum effort and rest mean that your body burns fat long after you stop playing.

 It Increases Aerobic and Anaerobic Health

The intervals that take place in a tennis match mean that your heart rate will increase and return to its resting rate repeatedly; this will increase the amount of oxygen, nutrients, and blood reaching your muscles. The end result is an increased capacity for short, quick bursts of energy.

It Improves Balance, Coordination and Flexibility

In order to play tennis your entire body has to work in coordination with balance, strength, and flexibility. If you play regularly you will find that you develop just that: flexibility, coordination, balance, and strength.

It Puts You in a Good Mood

Being physically active does a lot for your mood; a positive side effect to playing tennis is a reduction in cortisol, and a suppressing of the symptoms of anxiety and depression through an adrenaline buzz. There are few ways to improve your mood which match this social, challenging sport.

It Challenges Your Brain

Tennis is much like chess… no really! It’s not just a matter of brute strength and endurance, though these things help. It’s as much about strategy, about thinking on your feet and reacting to your opponent in order to outsmart them, as it is about athleticism. Because of this it is thought that tennis can help to develop strong neural connections.

It Improves Endurance

The need for quick bursts of activity, somewhere between 300 and 500 per match amounting to 3 to 5 miles across the court, in tennis makes it a real endurance sport. As such it’s a great way to improve your performance in other sports, too!

When you buy real estate at Garza Blanca, you can enjoy all the benefits of a 5 Star resort, which includes a stunning Outdoor Play and Fitness center which includes tennis courts which can double as a basketball court and an air conditioned squash court.