Let's face it: it is not always easy to motivate yourself to play sports. We sweat, it's hard, we even have pain sometimes after an intensive session, and this for several days. Why struggle so much when the call of the couch is strong?
PRACTICE OF SPORTS ACTIVITY: WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS?
The benefits of sport on the body and mind are numerous. Physical activity takes care of the different body systems (heart, lungs and joints). It also helps prevent certain ailments, such as high blood pressure, heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes and obesity. Indeed, sport contributes to the strengthening of the heart and blood vessels. It allows better lung ventilation.
Associated with a suitable diet, sport causes you to lose fat mass and increase muscle mass. It also strengthens bones and joints. In particular, it prevents diseases such as osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. It also helps to delay the aging process. To improve your condition and your general state of health, bet on sports activities while taking care of your diet.
BENEFITS FOR THE MIND
Physical activity also has positive psychological consequences. It thus attenuates the depressive syndrome and anxieties. Sleep is then favored unless sports practice takes place in the evening. The latter is then stimulating. Not to mention its effects on good mood!
As a child, sport influences the state of health by slowing down, for example, the development of risk factors responsible for chronic diseases. During adolescence, it helps to have better self-esteem, a reduction in stress (due to the production of hormones called endorphins) and anxiety.
It's scientifically proven: playing sports delivers concentrated pleasure to your body and mind. The reasons? Endorphins, released by the brain during and after sports practice, and the simultaneous drop in stress hormones. It is after 30 minutes of sport that endorphins are released in the body, acting like a real morphine. Its effects are multiple: slight euphoria, reduction of the feeling of pain and fatigue, anti-stress effects, reduction of fatigue. Having a high morale will obviously boost your motivation to make the practice of sport sustainable. And in addition to this good mood, sport will improve your confidence and self-esteem, you will feel more at ease in your body, in harmony with yourself.
SKIN BENEFITS
To adopt without delay if you wish to preserve the elasticity of your skin. A real makeover!
BENEFITS FOR THE BRAIN
In Alzheimer's disease, it also plays a role with patients who see their mortality rate and their risk of falls decrease.
HOW MANY SPORTS PER DAY AND PER WEEK?
A regular practice at a rate of 2 to 3 times a week (about 1 hour each time) is desirable to obtain effects. Know that it is not limited to sport, it can take on various activities such as walking, cleaning, gardening... The practice is to be adapted to the different ages of life.
DO SPORT, JUST FOR PLEASURE!
And if you put yourself in the sport only for your pleasure? You don't necessarily have to have pounds to lose or someone to impress to engage in a sporting activity. You will be able to do yourself good by thinking only of you and you alone! This feeling of pleasure will vary according to the sport chosen and everyone's expectations: thrills with extreme and/or speed sports, satisfaction in improving one's own performance without having to compare oneself to someone else, pleasure in touching your feet stretched legs after hours of yoga, pride in staying 30 seconds of sheathing without feeling like you were dying, joy in climbing stairs while being able to talk at the same time, sharing a great moment with friends in the frame of a team sport.
There will be no shortage of these simple good times during your practice, and that is ultimately all that is asked for! Pleasure is the key to regularity and therefore to your progress and well-being.
IB COACH ADVICE
We can only encourage you to practice regular physical activity or sports without forgetting to combine a healthy and balanced diet.