Get healthy by playing tennis

Tennis is a great sport with significant health benefits. Recently, an article from the Tennis Industry magazine shared some of the benefits of playing tennis. Selected ideas from this article are included below:

• • Play 3 hours of tennis a week and you’ll cut your risk of death in half from any cause, according to a Harvard study of 10,000 people during a 20-year period. What insurance company wouldn’t want that for their clientele! You can literally save your life by taking up the sport.

  • Tennis burns calories. An hour of tennis can burn 580 to 870 calories, depending on your weight, says the Mayo Clinic. I think that there is general agreement that controlling your weight is vital to maintaining your health. Google says reducing calories by 300 per day and increasing daily activity to burn off an additional 200 calories should result in a weight loss of one pound per week.

  • Tennis keeps your heart healthy. The Cleveland Clinic says tennis is ‘ideal sport for a healthy heart.’ And a Johns Hopkins study showed that middle-aged men who played tennis-more than any other activity-had a significant lower incidence of cardiovascular disease as they aged. I want to choose an activity that maximizes my health and tennis appears to be a good choice based on these statements.

These are compelling reasons to play tennis and cardio tennis is a great way to maximize these benefits.

Cardio Tennis sessions are offered every Saturday morning at 8:00 am in the Green Tennis Club.  These sessions are intended for adults of all ages and experience. The cost is $20.00 per session if you pay with cash or check or $22.00 per session if you pay with a credit card. Join us on Saturday mornings for the fastest 90 minutes in the sport.