Health Benefits
Playing For Life
Dr. Daniel Amen, a member of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine, said “Table tennis is the world’s best brain sport.”
Studies show it activates various parts of the brain simultaneously. When playing, an overall state of awareness is stimulated — requiring thought and physical alertness.
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Sports aren’t just for competitive reasons alone. Apart from public recognition among other things, sports also help to improve the mental and physical health of participants. Table tennis is no different and in this publication we will discuss the various health benefits of playing the game ; both mental and physical.
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Jan. 20, 2011— -- Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon, puts on a good front.
"I have a paddle and I have a paddle case, which makes me look very professional," she confessed to a crowd at New York's American Museum of Natural History. "But, in fact, I suck."
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Aside from being a fun way to spend an afternoon with your family and friends, table tennis also offers surprisingly great health benefits. Like most sports, table tennis offers great mind-body stimulation, aerobic exercise, and social interaction. Unlike many sports, however, the overall risk for injury with table tennis is quite low.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. — July 31, 2012. The physical benefits of the Olympic sports are pretty obvious: strength, endurance and agility, to name a few. But did you know they also can help the brain? Mayo Clinic research shows that any exercise that gets the heart pumping may reduce the risk of dementia and mild cognitive impairment — and slow those conditions if they start. Aerobic exercise also can boost your mood.
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Dr. Oz reveals the secret behind ping-pong: it can actually help prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The game requires hand-eye coordination, quick decision-making and the rapid eye movement of the game requires the brain to do intensely fast analysis. Predicting where the ball will fall demands mental power and constant recalculation.
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Intense training and league play at the table-tennis club founded by actress Susan Sarandon brings a New York woman new friends and fitness
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“The great thing about our sport is it can be played by anyone,” said Jimmy Butler, a four-time national USA Table Tennis Association champion who overcame a debilitating muscle condition in his 20s and 30s to reclaim the title at age 44. “I see 90-year-olds and 10-year-olds.”
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Published: 28 September 2017 Written by GR Staff
If you’re thinking about what type of sporting activity is especially good for senior citizens, ping-pong probably wouldn’t be the first thing to pop into to your mind.
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Super-agers – that’s people whose biological age is lower than their actual age – should consider taking up the game of ping pong, according to TV preseter Dr Miriam Stoppard.
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Table Tennis (or ping pong) may not be known as a “man’s sport”. It may not be as popular as basketball or football. But what ping pong lacks in outright brawn, it makes up in it’s ability to exercise the mind as much as the body. The New York Times even goes far enough to call it, “The Fountain of Youth.”
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