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Boosts and Promotes Cardiovascular Health: As you play basketball your heart rate increases, and it builds endurance to keep a healthy heart. It may also lower the risk of stroke and heart disease. Burns Calories: Basketball is great for burning calories because of all the quick movements, plus the running and jumping is an aerobic workout that burns a lot of calories. Builds up Bone Strength: Basketball is an excellent weight-bearing activity. Weight bearing makes bones stronger. Both the...

  What's Great About Baseball? On a basic level, here are some reasons why baseball is a great workout:  Builds strong arms: Baseball players can quickly build upper body strength with swinging, throwing, and catching.  Builds strong legs: Players can engage thier glute, hamstring, and calf muscles during a baseball game. In baseball you must run from base to base along with short periods of rest between each hit. Increases Mental Focus and Concentration: Baseball can...

What's So Great About Snowboarding?  Improved/Increased Flexibility. Because snowboarding equires you to change position, speed, and direction very quickly, this can improve/increase your flexibility.  Improved Balance and Coordination. Having to stay balanced on a snowboard can be tough. Adding elements of snow and ice can make it even more difficult. The more you snowboard, the better your balance and coordination will become.  A Stronger Core. In snowboarding you use a ...

According to this link, there are several health benefits to playing tennis, including but not limited to: Improved agility, flexibility, and balance. Agility is one's ability to move quickly and easily. During tennis, players usually move rapidly in several directions. Because of this, it's important to stretch before and after tennis matches. Weight loss. Tennis is a great cardio workout. You're running, pivoting, and stretching. Stress relief. Becuase you have to be super focued when p...

Some health benefits of playing soccer, according to Better Health Channel, are: an increase in aerobic capacity and cardiovascular health lowering of body fat and the improvment of muscle tone building of strength, flexibility and endurance an increase in muscle and bone strength a general improvement of health due to switching between walking, running and sprinting. If you play soccer it's important to try and avoid any kind of injury as best you can. Some ways to do that...