Top 5 Health Benefits watching sporting events

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Not everyone likes to watch a sporting event, and it is certainly to be appreciated. However, the interest can not be enforced, but if you often watch the football league for accompanying spouse, for example, you should not feel forced to do so. Therefore, a spectator sporting event turned out to have many benefits.

"Mutual bound for the sport, either win or lose, will strengthen ties, helps us feel supported, and makes it easier to open about personal matters, " said Renee Clauselle, PsyD, a private psychology clinic owner in Long Island, NY.

When you and your friends championed the same team, this will create a sense of familiarity, plus Daniel Wann, PhD, professor of Murray State University who studied the psychology of sports fans for over 20 years. When you meet with other people who are equally championed local team, for example, " you will soon build connections with other people around you, " he said.

Here are 5 Unique Health Benefits watching sporting events


1. Motivated to Exercise
Seeing how toned legs tennis player Maria Sharapova, or how slim the stomach swimmer Dara Torres, will surely encourage you to come have it. You do not even need to train with an athlete standards. The success of a friend ran around the Main Stadium Senayan five times ( around the time when the original one struggling alone ! ) Course will also spur you to do the same achievement.

" You might see them walking, laughing, having fun, and then think, ' If they could, I surely can,'" said Dr. Wann. " The more you connect with the sport ( or sport athlete through itself ), the more able to influence you to get moving. "

2. Watching the game at the sports
According to the study, just sitting watching the games, women with an average body weight 70 kg can burn more than 100 calories. In fact, when you watch a football match live in the stadium, or watching badminton on the field, you certainly will not just sit. You will be sitting, standing, jumping up and down, yelling, waving a hand to give encouragement. The same effect you would get when you watch it on TV with friends in a cafe. Unable seat ? Not a problem ! With the stand throughout the game, you can burn 150 calories ! Need a snack ? Kudap just nuts.

3. Longer lifespan
You do not like to watch the game live, and choose to watch on television. Perhaps, but try to invite friends. If possible, organize at home watching the show together on a regular basis. Because maintaining a strong social network, especially with friends healthy, will increase the chances of living longer by 50 percent. You also will double the chance to beat the cancer, reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, and prevent the flu, according to research from Brigham Young University study.

" Friendship sportive can help you cope with stress, so it is likely to experience physical and emotional effect of the negative will be reduced, " said
Julianne Holt - Lunstad, PhD, professor of psychology who led the study.

4. Good for your relationship
The man most happy if you accompany watching a sports game, although you did not really enjoy it. However, when you get used to watching it, over time you will understand the game, and eventually so loved. If his favorite team wins, he will release the hormone testosterone to boost libido, and feeling happy it will carry over in bed. No wonder, watching sporting events eventually become a means of quality time for the couple. Research also shows that share the same interest can boost domestic harmony. Mutually supportive marriage is good for heart health, and help you live longer.

5. Make you smarter
Watch sporting events can improve the ability to communicate and help you stay organized. Researchers from the Univesity of Chicago in his study in 2008 revealed that watching the game would be a workout for the brain. In the experiment, 12 college -level hockey players, eight fans of hockey, and nine people who have never watched or played a sport hockey, hockey match required to listen to broadcasts, while a machine to record their brain function. After that, they were given a test to analyze their understanding.

The experiment concluded, athletes and sports fans are not only able to understand the game better, but also experience in the motor areas of the brain activity associated with planning, monitoring, and performance. This suggests that exercise can help your audience absorb and digest information best if you also play the sport.

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