the amazing benefits of sports volleyball for health

Compared to futsal or basketball, Indonesians may be practically rarely playing volleyball - unless there are certain special occasions, such as the SEA GAMES championship. But that does not mean the benefits of playing volleyball is not as good as the two popular sports.

In addition to coaching cooperation with friends, there are still many health benefits that you can get from the game of volleyball.

Benefits of playing volleyball for body health

1. Reduce stress
   The brain will increase the production of happy mood hormones when we exercise, namely endorphins, dopamine, serotonin, and tryptophan. Regular exercise can also lower the hormone cortisol and epineprine, the two stress hormones, and replace it by increasing the hormone norepineprin as an antidepressant.

All of these positive hormones will then work together to create feelings of pleasure and drive out stress, thus creating positive thoughts. That's why exercise is often suggested as an adjunct therapy to manage the symptoms of various mental illnesses.

The effect of decreasing stress levels is also increasing in the game of volleyball as it involves social interaction with many people at one time.

1. Helps sleep more soundly
   Exercise can make you sleep more soundly because it helps increase the activity of enzymes and muscle functions, and helps relax the body after a day of work. In the morning you too will feel more energetic.

Launched from the Healthline page, the rise in body temperature that occurs when you exercise also help you sleep soundly. In fact, moderate intensity exercise is reported to help control various sleep disorders, such as insomnia.

But still do not exercise excessively. Exercise is too hard to make your body even more tired and dehydrated, which makes it difficult to sleep.

1. Powerful lose weight
   The game of volleyball includes a type of aerobic cardio exercise. Cardio exercise itself is a type of exercise to increase heart rate. For 15-20 minutes or more you play volleyball gives the pulse rate up to 60-80% of normal.

The heart is composed of muscles that must keep moving in order to be stronger and stronger again. When the heart muscle is strong, the blood vessels can drain more and faster blood. Strong blood vessels can drain more oxygen into the muscle cells.

This allows the cells to burn more fat during exercise and at rest. That's why the most common cardio exercises are chosen to help you lose weight, because this activity is very effective at burning fat. Regular volleyball exercise will also prevent more weight loss and obesity as the source of all sources of metabolic diseases, such as diabetes.

Volleyball for 20 minutes can burn 126 calories. Just imagine if you play volleyball regularly 20 minutes for 1 full year, you can burn as many as 459,900 calories or the equivalent of reducing 6 kilograms of fat from your body. Research finds that the higher the intensity of your cardio, the more calories you burn.

1. Forming and strengthening muscles, as well as joints
   In addition to strengthening the heart muscles, playing volleyball also involves a lot of limb movements. Starting from the calf muscles, thighs, buttocks, hips used to jump and run, until the upper arm and back muscles to hit the ball.

By playing volleyball, your joints become strong as they continue to be trained to run. jumping, and hitting. Strong joints will avoid you from various risks of injury while exercising or daily activities ..

1. Strengthens bones
   Volleyball includes weight training that can strengthen bones.

Weight training routinely helps the body control the release of sclerostin levels while increasing the production of a special hormone called IGF-1 that plays an important role in bone growth. Sclerostin itself is one of the natural proteins that when the levels accumulate in the bones, can make the bones more vulnerable to pierce.

That way, volleyball can help keep bone density early and prevent symptoms of osteoporosis for the future.