As we all know, moderate physical exercise is beneficial to our physical and mental health. So, which sport should we choose to engage in?
Football is an excellent choice. Let me explain why football is a good option!!!!!
I. Benefits of Football to the Internal Body
- Improving Metabolic Capacity
Improving metabolism helps the body timely excrete toxins, carbon dioxide, and other waste products, preventing their accumulation. This creates a better internal environment for the body. Aerobic exercises such as football greatly assist in increasing metabolic rate.
- Enhancing Cardiovascular Capacity
To meet the metabolic demands of exercise, the body’s blood circulation rate accelerates. Over time, the heart’s myocardial fibers thicken to better perform its work, making myocardial contraction more powerful and effectively preventing coronary heart disease.
Stronger heart contractions increase blood pressure on blood vessels, ensuring their elasticity over time. Cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerotic hardening of blood vessels and cerebral hemorrhage can also be prevented.
A reminder: Gradually increase exercise intensity to avoid sports injuries.
- Enhancing Cardiopulmonary Function
Actions on the field such as starting, accelerating, and changing direction are not performed uniformly. This further tests our cardiopulmonary function. During exercise, our internal organs or cells consume a lot of oxygen, and breathing is our only source of oxygen. Long-term engagement in sports enhances our body’s metabolic capacity, increases oxygen demand, exercises respiratory muscles, and makes every breath more efficient instead of simple shallow breathing.
Improved respiratory systems also help prevent asthma.
- Reducing Blood Glucose Levels
Glucose is the main energy source in the human body, and the energy supply for exercise relies on the decomposition and consumption of glucose. Its consumption also lowers blood glucose levels, thereby preventing or alleviating hyperglycemia.
However, hypoglycemic individuals should take care to appropriately supplement sugar before and after exercise to avoid fainting.
- Increasing Muscle and Neural Excitability
Football requires all the muscles of the player’s body to be in an excited state. Players’ attention is constantly highly focused. Quick steals and positional play require players’ muscles to instantly exert force, and signals are frequently and comprehensively transmitted between nerve cells.
II. External Benefits to the Individual
- Improving Body Agility
Compared to changes in internal body functions, we can also observe external benefits. Football can exercise people’s foot agility and enhance muscle strength in the ankle joints, preventing ankle sprains.
- Improving Body Coordination
When players perform actions such as passing and dribbling while moving, they require body coordination and the ability to coordinate visual observation with footwork, stimulating and training all the body’s nerves.
III. The Nature of Football
- Team Sport, Forging Team Spirit
Football is a team sport that requires mutual cooperation on the field. Here, we meet more friends and find like-minded people. Nowadays, football has become a way of socializing.
- Joyful Mind and Body, Cultivating Taste
Football is also a form of entertainment. The thrill of scoring a goal or the seamless cooperation with partners brings happiness. Playing football can also relieve or release stress, with all worries disappearing in a powerful shot.
Special Reminder: Warming up before exercise is necessary. Warm-up exercises gradually bring the cardiovascular system and muscles into the exercise state, as sudden intense exercise can be damaging to the body!
