So, among so many sports, which one can prolong life best? A recent study answered this question. Researchers tell you that the sport that can make you live longer is playing tennis!
Analysis of 8 sports tennis can prolong life best.
The study, published in the Journal of Mayo Clinic, analyzed the sports crowd in Copenhagen, including tennis, badminton, football, jogging, cycling, gymnastics, swimming and going to the gym.
The results show that tennis is probably the "healthiest" sport. Compared with sedentary people, tennis lovers' life expectancy is prolonged by 9.7 years on average, and badminton and football ranked second and third are also prolonged by 6.2 years and 4.7 years respectively. The gymnast with the longest average exercise time only lived 1.5 years.
Seeing this, people who love fitness may cry. After all, according to the research, the people who are most keen on sports are those who choose to exercise in the gym, with an average of 599 minutes per week. The most commonly used equipment are treadmills, gravity training and so on.
Social activities have a great influence on life expectancy.
So, why can tennis prolong life? The team pointed out that this is probably because sports such as tennis and football need more "social activities", and the "social isolation" of solo sports itself is a powerful factor affecting life expectancy.
The researchers put forward two possible explanations: first, comprehensive exercise like tennis can exercise the muscles of the whole body more fully, and its exercise mode is basically an intermittent intense exercise, which is better than a single-rhythm continuous exercise mode.
Second, jogging, swimming, cycling and fitness can all be done independently, and tennis, badminton and football are obviously not sports that one person can play. Not only that, you may need to join a fixed small team to find a partner to exercise with.
Small groups that meet regularly can help people find trust, belonging and social support, which have been proved to improve happiness and long-term health; In addition, exercise can release psychological stress and help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and death.
Lonely athletes who don't like socializing will probably cry, but it turns out that social support has a great influence on longevity. Good interpersonal relationship can prevent premature death twice as much as exercise, so should we continue to be transparent to marginalized people?