Table tennis and elderly health
Author: Li Xiaodong Anchor: Yan Rain
I am almost old, idle after tea and dinner, and often meet a few golfers for more than a dozen rounds. I'm just a beginner in terms of skills, but I don't care about winning or losing, I care more about physical and mental happiness. Below I will contact my own personal experience and talk about my own experience of the sport of table tennis:
This sport is intelligent, competitive and entertaining. Regular participation in table tennis can be well exercised in the following aspects:
1. It can be exercised to improve visual ability. Because the speed of the ball on the table is particularly fast, the eyes must track the movement of the ball at the fastest speed, and people who often play table tennis have relatively good visual ability. Especially for children in primary and middle school, if the child is allowed to play ball every day, the chance of myopia will definitely be reduced.
2. It can strengthen the brain and improve the ability to respond. Table tennis is not only fast, but also requires brainstorming tactics. It is not only required that the rotation of the ball must be ever-changing, but also that there must be flexible lines and unexpected landing points. All of these changes require keen reflexes and quick decision-making in an instant.
3. It can strengthen the body and improve the coordination of hands and feet. Table tennis with its fast speed will make the muscles and joint tissues of the whole body will be well exercised. At the same time, the respiratory system and motor system will also be better exercised. People who often play table tennis, not only the muscles of the limbs are more developed, the joints are more flexible and stable, but also the running speed, strength quality and physical agility of the person will be correspondingly improved.
4. It can relax the body and reduce mental stress. Table tennis is an entertaining sport, if the spinning serve causes the opponent to eat the ball, or a strong smash catches the opponent off guard, or wins a small game, or wins consecutive shots... It will give people a sense of accomplishment to win. This feeling often makes exercisers "get carried away" with joy and even forget their lingering worries and worries.
5. It can promote fatigue and malaise nerves to be uplifted. If you use the limited time to play table tennis for a while in addition to studying for a long time, the physical fatigue and mental malaise will immediately disappear, and the vigorous physical strength and uplifting spirit will also follow, which is called sharpening the knife and not chopping wood by mistake.
An American scientist said this: If time permits, and there is a suitable opponent for sparring, then the activity of playing table tennis is the best way to improve the cooperation between hands and eyes, and this sport will benefit you a lot.
I have personal experience that table tennis can also promote exercisers to read and study more energetically, and also help the elderly better prevent Alzheimer's.
Playing table tennis is not only beneficial to people's physical and mental health in many of the above aspects, but also to the health of many organs of the human body:
First, it is conducive to the health of the neck, shoulders and spine: people who often sit in front of the computer will have more or less cervical spine and shoulder problems, the correct playing posture requires the back to be straight and relaxed, and long-term adherence will greatly improve the discomfort of the cervical spine and shoulders.
Second, it is conducive to heart health: long-term playing table tennis will exercise the function of people's heart and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system. Table tennis is a moderate amount of aerobic activity, the amount of oxygen delivered to various organs of the body will be greatly increased while the activity increases oxygen intake, and the function of various organs of the human body will naturally be improved. In addition, playing table tennis regularly will accelerate human blood circulation, so that the coronary arteries have enough blood to supply the myocardium, promote venous blood flow back to the heart, and prevent venous thrombosis, thereby preventing various heart diseases.
Third, it is conducive to the improvement of blood quality: after the function of the cardiovascular and cerebrovascular system of the human is strengthened, its blood quality will be improved accordingly. According to the test results of the medical department, people who play table tennis for a long time tend to reduce high blood lipids, high blood sugar and high blood cholesterol, and their metabolic function is also enhanced
Fourth, it is conducive to the enhancement of lung and respiratory function: long-term playing table tennis will increase lung capacity, exercise the respiratory muscles of the lungs, and promote the enhancement of lung function.
Fifth, it is conducive to the enhancement of liver function: long-term playing table tennis will eliminate fatty liver, enhance liver function, and reduce the occurrence of liver disease.
Since table tennis has so many benefits for people's physical and mental health, let's let go of all the troubles in our hands and find time to play table tennis for a while!
About the author
Li Xiaodong graduated from the Chinese Department of Liaoning University Tieling Branch in 1978. Later, he worked in party and government organs for 35 years, writing 8 million words of official documents; During this period, he successively served as the director of the Kaiyuan Municipal Bureau of Culture, the deputy director of the Publicity Department of the Municipal Party Committee, and the chairman of the Municipal Federation of Literature and Culture. He is a member of Liaoning Province Prose Association and Tieling City Association.
In the 10 years of Sina blog, he has published more than 100,000 words of blog posts; Amateur writing and in China Culture Daily, China Sports Daily, Workers' Daily, Farmer's Daily, China Audit News, China Labor Security News, China Farmers' Cooperatives, China Education Journal, Beijing Labor Afternoon News, Tianjin Old Cadres, Tianjin Tonight News, Tianjin Education News, Hebei Chengde Daily, Anhui Market Star, Nanjing Daily, Heilongjiang Retirement Life, Shanxi Old Cadres, Liaohai Prose, Friends of Liaoning Old Comrades, Liaoning Communist Party Members, Liaoning Party Style Monthly, Liaoning Contemporary Worker, Liaoning Labor Movement, Liaoning Old Age Daily, Liaoning Workers' Daily, He has published more than 300 essays in newspapers and periodicals such as Shenyang Evening Information, Shenyang Railway News and Huangshan Daily.
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