Category: Quality Time

Benefits Of Playing Tennis

 

Tennis as a sport, in addition to all the basic advantages of physical health that all sports offer, has additional benefits too:

It develops physical strength – Agility, Balance, Coordination, and Speed.

It helps teach about competition, and respect and builds character.

It helps develop concentration/listening skills and builds self-esteem.

 

Benefits of Tennis coaching

 

Firstly, it helps one learn the sport at their pace and helps focus on what one wants. The coach helps to assess your style and then use that to help you progress in the areas you’d like to. It should feel a natural progression for you, where while enjoying the process, you can feel your game progressing.

Secondly, it’s a perfect social activity too. Tennis can be played in doubles or singles, but either way, you have to play with another person. The opportunity to socialize with other players is a huge advantage of the game! Being around people with similar interests and goals is rewarding. While learning and playing the sport, children make strong. friendships in a respectful environment while adults can nurture a social circle.

Thirdly, it helps boost brain power – Playing tennis can improve critical thinking, mental alertness, and tactical thinking by making connections in the brain. The sport also regulates serotonin which controls functions such as sleep cycle, appetite, and emotional state.

Fourthly, it helps fight and prevent diseases. It also helps keep cholesterol low thereby reducing the chances of hypertension and cardiovascular issues.

It helps improve agility, flexibility, and balance. Tennis is a sport that calls for constant movement, direction changing and body stretches. Regularly playing tennis helps improve agility and flexibility.

Playing tennis also aids in weight loss. Tennis is a great cardio workout, especially if you’re playing singles as there is constant running, stretching, and moving every inch of your body. As per studies, recreational players can burn an estimated 600 to 1,320 calories per two-hour singles session while competitive players can burn between 768 to 1,728 calories.

It also works as a stress buster. Tennis is a wonderful way to help combat stress! When simply going for a run or jumping on an elliptical you still can let your mind race about other issues and tasks at hand. While playing tennis, the mind is forced to focus on the task at hand in place of daily stresses and to-do lists. Its a vacation, stress free time for your brain!

Tennis can be played at any age. While people in their 60s, 70s, and 80s are not seen playing or tackling football or running up and down a soccer field. But they still play and enjoy tennis. Tennis is a sport that can be played at all ages and all fitness levels!

Seek out the nearest tennis court and start playing the sport and get coached for a world of benefits!

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Private clubs are safe havens for families to spend quality time with each other.

 

In this article, we shall explore today’s hectic lifestyle and thus its impact on our overall relations, how quality time becomes essential for all family members and how in this context, private clubs can become a safe haven to rebuild and re-energize these connections.

 

Quality of time spent with loved and close ones is essential in today’s scenario rather than the quantity of time spent. This is more relevant in today’s times with an increasingly hectic lifestyle with the digital world also invading our lives dramatically. Thus the presence of a relaxed space to unplug and reconnect with family and friends has become even more critical now. 

Privates clubs are offering opportunities to the urban families to spend some quality time with each of their family members:

  1. Quality time with children: We have a lifetime to get work done, but children and their childhood come only once and cannot be relieved. In the given situation, children are devoid of time spent with their parents, all the more when both the parents are working adults, with work schedules spilling over the weekends as well. So, a child’s time spent with their parents, whether from simple board games or physically stimulating sports or even a lip-smacking brunch or meal, helps create memories for a lifetime, which impacts their self-worth and, as a result, helps mould them into the adults they finally become. 
  2. Time with grandparents: For working parents, grandparents come to the rescue whether for a short period of time or a constant in their lives which is highly beneficial to kids as they experience unconditional love and pampering from them, which is extremely important in their formative years. Moreover, grandparents are vital carriers of tradition and culture, which they pass on to the next generation, ensuring the same is passed on in the form of stories, forgotten activities etc., in the safe and relaxed environment of the club interspersed with shared activities and food. 
  3. ‘Me-Time’ for Women: Women have generally been programmed to be nurturers and caregivers, and, despite the 21st-century culture of equal responsibility and partnerships, women often end up taking more on their plate. This leaves them with little or no ‘me’ time, leading to burnout. A woman needs to take some time out for herself to enjoy a healthy, balanced and enriched lifestyle, both physically and emotionally. Apart from fine dining and activity centres, the private clubs offer opportunities to relax with a spa, Jacuzzi, steam and sauna, and open-air cafes to have a relaxing day in the club.
  4. Mid-week destination for Couples: In today’s world, most families consist of working couples with both husband and wife pursuing a 12-hour workday, followed by the day-to-day struggle of family responsibilities. This limits any scope for quality togetherness vital to strengthening a marital bond. A brief mid-week ‘date’ at the private club offers a relaxed and peaceful ambience for couples to actually ‘hang out’ and catch up on some quality time together before they head out again to face the world. A lunch date or a game of tennis, a swim or just a relaxed spa session at the club can help rejuvenate their bond. The combination of sport, fun, and recreation becomes a great stress buster for them, which improves their quality of life and improves overall productivity, thus providing an outstanding balance between family, social life, and work.
  5. A place of refuge for working moms and their kids: Mothers play a vital role in a child’s overall development. One of the most critical roles a mother plays is a nurturer’s role. Most mothers nowadays are working women, and it becomes challenging for them to take up the roles of being full-time mothers. Private clubs are the perfect refuge for the working moms to get out of the cacophony of the city life and spend some time with her kid in a peaceful atmosphere. From power-Yoga sessions and modernistic gyms to table tennis, basketball and swimming, and Zumba, dance and aerobics sessions for women and children, the offering cater to the varied tastes and preferences of the members.

 

In conclusion, as an integrated, well designed and strategically-located venue, lifestyle clubs provide a much sought-after place for urban families, businessmen, and millennials to seek quality time in a luxurious and comfortable ambience within the city’s heart.