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Sports are beneficial for both body and mind. Here are some of the benefits of sports
Mental benefits of sports
BE A PLAYER: Sports help in building one's confidence
Playing sports is an excellent form of physical exercise by which one can stay fit because it usually involves frequent running and jumping. Most people who play sports often have athletic bodies. Apart from the physical benefits, sports has mental benefits too.
Here are some of them:
Playing sports can be helpful in developing social skills in a person because most sports interaction between people. Thus, one learns to work and tackle problems as a team and imbibe team spirit.
There’s always winning and losing in sports. Thus, a person learns to deal with highs of success and lows of failure.
In today’s dog-eat-dog world, there’s fierce competition everywhere. Sports inculcates competitive spirit which is necessary to survive and be successful in life.
Sports help in building one’s confidence. There are a number of sportspersons who are shy and quite off the field; but they are pretty confident and feisty on the field.
Playing sports requires concentration, quick thinking and decisionmaking skills. Also, sportspersons discipline themselves with regard to their training themselves.
People who play sports are at a lower risk to suffer from anxiety, depression and other psychological disorders than people who don’t indulge in sports.
Playing sports is a great enjoyable option to de-stress. Because sports involve a good amount of physical exertion, the body and the mind get energised.
