{"id":24824,"date":"2010-07-07T01:20:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T06:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=24824"},"modified":"2010-07-07T12:28:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T17:28:43","slug":"fitness-benefits-of-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/fitness-benefits-of-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Benefits of Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/fitness-benefits-of-tennis\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-24937\" title=\"tennis\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tennis-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tennis-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tennis.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Historically known as the &#8220;sport for a lifetime,&#8221; <a title=\"tennis workout\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/the-tennis-players-workout\/\" target=\"_self\">tennis<\/a> can be played by just about anyone, at any stage of their fitness journey. It&#8217;s a sport that can be both fiercely competitive and completely relaxing. But what are some of the benefits to the player?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tennis is a highly aerobic sport that burns more calories per hour than <a title=\"water aerobics\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/top-10-benefits-of-water-aerobics\/\" target=\"_self\">aerobic classes<\/a>, cycling or skating. Men can burn over 500 calories in an hour of game play and women more than 400.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Because it requires alertness and tactical reasoning, it may generate new connections between nerves in the brain. This, according to scientists at the University of Illinois, will promote a lifetime of continuing development of the brain. We all know that brain development is a very good thing!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tennis promotes anaerobic exercise, which helps the body use oxygen more efficiently by alternating short, intense bursts of activity followed by rest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Gross motor skills are improved thanks to rapid court movement that requires control of large muscle groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Both agility and balance are improved by forcing you to change direction as many as five times in 10 seconds during a typical tennis point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Recent studies have shown an increase in bone strength and density of tennis players by strengthening bones of young players and helping prevent osteoporosis in older ones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Improvement in eye-hand coordination, thanks to the efforts required to meet the ball with the racquet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Tennis is also a phenomenal way to grow your social skills.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Serena Williams' Grueling Tennis Workouts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/serena-williams-grueling-tennis-workouts\/\" target=\"_self\">Serena Williams Grueling Tennis Workouts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historically known as the &#8220;sport for a lifetime,&#8221; tennis can be played by just about anyone, at any stage of their fitness journey. It&#8217;s a sport that can be both fiercely competitive and completely relaxing. But what are some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/fitness-benefits-of-tennis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[439,952,1881],"class_list":["post-24824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-aerobics","tag-anaerobic","tag-tennis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24824"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24928,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24824\/revisions\/24928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}