The benefits and drawbacks of playing table tennis

Table tennis is a round sphere with a standard ball diameter of 40 mm and a weight of 2.6-2.8 g. It is a small ball sport that is very effective in relieving mental stress and visual fatigue, and is a healthy sport for the body and mind. However, if you do not pay attention to protection, you are also prone to sports injuries. Here's a look at what the benefits and disadvantages of playing table tennis are.

Benefits of playing table tennis

It's good for the brain

Usually when playing sports at the table, the brain has to think and analyze and synthesize the information from the eyes and ears in a short period of time, mobilize the visual and auditory sensory organs, the motor center and the whole body muscles to work fast, choose the best hitting point and make the right return, which can greatly improve the nervous system reaction speed and comprehensive coordination ability with long-term practice.

Prevent myopia

Small ball sports have the effect of training eye rotation. When playing table tennis, the eyes take the ping pong ball as the target, constantly adjusting and moving up and down, constantly relaxing and contracting the ciliary muscles, and constantly moving the extraocular muscles, which can promote the blood supply and metabolism of the eye tissue and effectively improve the function of the ciliary muscles.

Exercise the flexibility of the body

Table tennis can make the upper limbs, lower limbs and back muscles developed and strong, and the joints more flexible and stable, which can improve the speed quality and strength quality of the human body, and at the same time, in the process of moving the ball, and exercise the flexibility and coordination of the body.

Strengthening the body

Table tennis can make the human body's circulation, respiratory system function is greatly strengthened, the exercise makes the heart muscle become developed and powerful, heart volume increased, the output per beat increased, the elasticity of the blood vessel wall increased, can reduce the adverse effects of cardiovascular disease. At the same time, the respiratory muscles are exercised, which can increase lung capacity and improve respiratory function.

Relieve cervical stiffness

When playing table tennis, you need to move quickly, both to swing your arms and to take big steps across, and when you do these movements, your cervical spine is also subject to traction, which can effectively flex your shoulders and neck and relieve cervical stiffness.

Relieve stress

Playing ball can make the excitation and inhibition process of the brain alternate reasonably and avoid overstressing the nervous system. In daily life, if you encounter aggression, or feel stressed in life, you may want to play table tennis.

Weight loss and slimming

Table tennis will have span, jump up and other fast moving movements, adhere to 1-2 hours a day to play table tennis, can effectively burn fat in the legs, abdomen and arms.

Disadvantages of playing table tennis

Easy to hurt your muscles and bones

Many people practice pulling the arc circle to twist their shoulders, lumbar vertebrae, disc bones, and also improperly suffer from tennis elbow. If you have an old injury to your lower back, it is easy for the old one to recur if you don't apply the right amount of force.

One-armed stubbornness

Since ping pong is a single-arm sport, it can lead to the left and right arm not being the same thick, so people who play ping pong all year round would do well to work with other arm exercises to balance the size of the muscles in both arms.

Easy to hunch over

Playing table tennis requires bending and bending the knees to move, so if you don't pay attention to it, it is easy to form a habit that leads to a hunchback.