Contents:
- Medical Video: Surprisingly Versatile Benefits of Playing Sports You Never Knew
- The benefits of playing volleyball for body health
- 1. Reducing stress
- 2. Helps sleep better
- 3. Effective reduce weight
- 4. Forming and strengthening muscles, as well as joints
- 5. Strengthens bones
Medical Video: Surprisingly Versatile Benefits of Playing Sports You Never Knew
Compared to futsal or basketball, Indonesians might say they rarely play volleyball - unless there are certain special opportunities, such as the SEA GAMES championship. But that does not mean the benefits of playing volleyball are not as good as the two popular sports.
In addition to practicing cooperation with friends, it turns out there are still many health benefits that you can get from volleyball.
The benefits of playing volleyball for body health
1. Reducing stress
The brain will multiply the production of happy mood hormones when we exercise, namely endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, and tryptophan. Regular exercise can also reduce the hormones cortisol and epineprine, two stress-triggering hormones, and replace them by increasing the hormone norepineprin as an antidepressant.
All these positive hormones will then work together to create feelings of pleasure and drive away stress, thus creating positive thoughts. That is why exercise is often recommended as an additional therapy for managing symptoms of various mental illnesses.
The effect of decreasing stress levels is also increasing in volleyball games because it involves social interaction with many people at one time.
2. Helps sleep better
Exercise can make you sleep better because it helps increase enzyme activity and muscle function, and helps relax the body after a day of work. In the morning you will feel more powerful.
Reporting from the Healthline page, the increase in body temperature that occurs when you exercise also helps you sleep well. In fact, moderate intensity exercise is reported to help control various sleep disorders, such as insomnia.
But still do not exercise excessively. Exercise is too hard to make your body even more tired and dehydrated, which makes it difficult to sleep.
3. Effective reduce weight
Volleyball games are a type of cardio aerobic exercise. Cardio exercise itself is a type of exercise to increase heart rate. For 15-20 minutes or more you play volleyball giving you an increase in your pulse rate of up to 60-80% of normal.
The heart is made up of muscles that must continue to move in order to be stronger and stronger again. If the heart muscle is strong, blood vessels can drain blood more and faster. Strong blood vessels can drain more oxygen into muscle cells.
This allows cells to burn more fat during exercise and at rest. That's why the most common kardo exercises are chosen to help you lose weight, because this activity is very effective at burning fat.Exercising volleyball regularly will also prevent overweight and obesity from being a source of all sources of metabolic diseases, such as diabetes.
Volleyball for 20 minutes can burn 126 calories. Just imagine if you play volleyball regularly 20 minutes for a full year, you can burn as many as 459,900 calories, equivalent to reducing 6 kilograms of fat from your body. Research has found that the higher the cardio intensity you do, the greater the calories burned.
4. Forming and strengthening muscles, as well as joints
In addition to strengthening the heart muscles, playing volleyball also involves a lot of limb movements. Starting from otot calves, thighs, buttocks, hips are used for jumping and running, up to the upper arm and back muscles to hit the ball.
By playing volleyball, your joints also become strong because they are constantly trained to run. jump, and hit. Strong joints will avoid you from various risks of injury while exercising and daily activities..
5. Strengthens bones
Volleyball includes weight training that can strengthen bones.
Regular weight training helps the body control the release of sclerostin levels while increasing the production of a special hormone called IGF-1 which plays an important role in bone growth. Sclerostin itself is one of the natural proteins that when accumulated in bone, can make bones more prone to porous.
That way, the game of volleyball can help maintain bone density early and prevent the symptoms of osteoporosis in the future.
