The pros and cons of playing basketball

Playing basketball is a favorite sport for many people. Many people like to sweat on the basketball court in their spare time. Most people know that playing basketball can exercise the body, but playing basketball has both advantages and disadvantages. When everyone engages in this sport, they must understand its two-sided nature.

Benefits of playing basketball

1. Improve physical strength

In daily life, people often play basketball to improve their physical strength and enhance their physical endurance, because people need to consume a lot of physical energy when playing basketball, but the longer the time, the stronger the physical endurance will be, and the physical recovery ability will also increase accordingly.

2. Improve responsiveness

Running and jumping on the basketball court requires not only abundant physical strength, but also quick reaction ability. You must be able to judge the direction of the ball in time and understand how to score a goal. Therefore, this sport requires people to have particularly high reaction ability. People can significantly enhance their physical reaction ability through continuous exercise.

3. Detoxification

People who play basketball regularly can have a particularly good detoxification effect, because people will keep running and jumping when playing basketball, which will slowly increase the body temperature, and can stimulate the sweat glands to speed up the secretion of sweat in the body, so that toxins in the body can be discharged from the body along with the sweat. Girls who insist on playing basketball can also have a certain beauty effect.

4. Promote body growth

People who play basketball regularly can promote their body growth, especially teenagers in their developmental period. If they insist on playing basketball, it will have some positive nutritional effects on the joints, can quickly secrete growth hormone in the body, can promote the division of more cells in human bones, and can quickly increase human height.

5. Prevent vision loss

Playing basketball can also prevent vision loss because when people play basketball, their eyes will constantly move with the ball. This movement can stimulate the human retina and optic nerve, enhance the function of the optic nerve, keep the brain and eyes consistent in their responses, make people's vision sharper, and prevent vision loss.

Disadvantages of playing basketball

Normally, playing basketball in moderation does not have any obvious harm to the body, but basketball is an intense competitive game. It is easy to collide when running on the court, and the impact on the knees is also relatively large. If you play basketball for a long time, you are prone to spraining your joint ligaments.

The above introduces the advantages and disadvantages of playing basketball, which can let everyone know that playing basketball also has its two sides. In the future, when playing basketball, try to avoid long-term exercise to avoid damage to joints and ligaments.