When we think about practicing a sport, the first reason that comes to mind is weight loss 🏋️. But know that this reason is only the tip of the iceberg 🧊, in reality sport represents much more and can have very beneficial effects on your body and mind beyond weight loss, which by the way is ineffective if the practice is not accompanied by a healthy lifestyle. 🥗
At JOG & JIM, we believe that sport should be inclusive and a source of pleasure above all 🤸, which is why we manufacture eco-responsible sportswear in a wide range of sizes from XS to 3XL so that everyone has the right to enjoy the pleasure of sport in a pleasant outfit. 🎽
So what are the reasons for doing sports?
#1 Sport has a direct impact on health 🫀
Of course, sport can help you lose weight, but its function is too often reduced to that. In reality, sport helps improve health and in particular prevent or contribute to the treatment of many chronic diseases, cancers (it reduces the risk of developing breast or colon cancer by 30%), type 2 diabetes, neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases or even cardiovascular diseases. 🧬
Indeed, sport strengthens the immune system, it improves bone density, provides better pulmonary ventilation, strengthens the heart and its vessels and maintains reflexes and matrix coordination. 🦴
To optimize the health results of sports, we advise you to vary sports activities with complementary virtues in order to benefit from complete maintenance of your body. For example, you can practice swimming to improve your endurance 🏊and do weight training to improve your physical resistance. 💪
#2 Sport, a natural stress reliever 🧘♀️
After a hard day at work, sport can help you reduce stress and anxiety, it allows you to clear your mind and take your mind off things. By doing sustained physical effort, your body will secrete endorphins, also called the happiness hormone ☀️, which will trigger a feeling of well-being and relaxation in you that can lead to addiction if the practice of sport is too sustained.
Playing sports helps you focus on something else, forget your daily worries, reconnect your body to your mind 🧠. Sport allows you to put yourself in your bubble 💭, forget what surrounds you for a moment and thus be totally relaxed.
Sports activity is all the more effective in stress management when it is practiced outdoors, especially in a natural environment 🏞️, where the athlete can finally cut himself off from the world. Such an environment allows you to get away from your problems and approach them more calmly.
After all, we should not deprive ourselves of sport if it can contribute to our well-being, plus it is a natural and inexpensive remedy!
#3 Physical activity improves sleep quality 💤
A good sports practice gives you a more restful sleep and increases your sleep time 🕘, thanks to sport you will no longer have to fight to find sleep. Indeed, when you come back from sport you feel your eyelids closing after having spent so much energy, your bed begs you to join it and finally give in to the arms of Morpheus. 🛏️
Sport allows you to extend the period of deep sleep during which muscle cells regenerate and the reconstruction of energy stores is optimized ⚡. So we have an infinite circle that forms: the more you exercise regularly, the better your sleep will be and the more energy you will have to exercise! 🔁
#4 Playing sports is a lot of fun 🤸
Let's forget the idea that sport is synonymous with torture, on the contrary when sport is practiced correctly it can be a real source of pleasure! 🙌
To have fun while playing sports, find an activity that suits you by testing as many activities as possible alone or with a friend 👫to enjoy an even more enjoyable time. You can also come and try the sports classes that will make you feel like a child again thanks to Récré Sportive on our website. ⛹️♀️
Pleasure in sport can take different forms (well-being, excitement, euphoria, etc.) and can appear following a personal achievement 🏆, the time spent with loved ones 👭, the well-being felt at the end of a training session 👍, the adrenaline rush after trying an extreme sport 🪂, the change of environment ⛰️…
#5 It helps maintain social ties 🤼
Sport helps you meet new people, meet up with friends and, above all, break social isolation. It is not necessarily necessary to play a team sport (although it is valued for developing team spirit 🤝) to meet new people. Playing a sport in a club allows you to share a common activity with a group and thus build new social bonds. 👫
This social bond is particularly important for young people 👦who gain confidence and independence by leaving the family environment during their sports activities. It is therefore important to encourage sports practice 🏃 as early as possible to forge this social bond in your children.
#6 Sport increases self-confidence ✅
Sports activity improves the way we see our body, it allows us to maintain a healthier relationship with it 🤟. Self-confidence appears following the observation of physical and moral improvements linked to regular practice of sport: the silhouette is redesigned, we observe a gain in flexibility, a reduction in shortness of breath and certain ailments but also a reduction in stress, and an increase in well-being 😇. These changes thus improve the mental state of athletes and therefore their self-confidence.
