Tennis, A Perfect Sport For Children: Here Are All The Benefits.

Has your child not found his sport yet? Swimming, football, volleyball, and basketball do not seem to interest him. Why not try tennis?

Sport is good, and tennis is no exception. There are many benefits for children: health, sociability, and coordination, above all. As a parent, you have to choose a sport for your children to play; tennis should be one of the first on the list. It is obvious that as they grow up, the kids will then express their preferences, but to start, I would like to recommend tennis, a sport that I practiced at a competitive level as a child. It is time to deny the prejudice that tennis is a sport not very suitable for children. Tennis is a sport suitable for everyone!

The first thing I want to bring to your attention is the benefits tennis has for a child's body: muscle tone, coordination, sight, and mobility are the most developed elements when playing tennis. The most significant concern of parents usually derives from the fact that due to the use of the muscles of only one limb (the one with which the racket is held), the child may grow disproportionately. However, it must be borne in mind that special exercises are carried out during training to develop the other limb proportionally; moreover, for this reason, mini-tennis were invented, for which the rackets used are much lighter, and the balls are depressurized. Moreover, the field is reduced.

As for the lower limbs, I remember that tennis is a sport of movement, and the blows, though settled by the arms, require an accompaniment from the whole body. Through specific workouts, the muscles of the legs of the tennis player develop quickly. Chasing the ball with both side movements and forward or backward, in addition to giving a benefit for fitness, strengthens the muscles of the legs. There is then the loading of the blow in which the legs are fundamental and which also provides, in this case, a muscle benefit to the lower limbs.

We must not forget, to conclude, the muscles of the torso, starting with the abs. Hitting the ball, you perform hundreds of rotations of the torso in each game or workout. Furthermore, that makes the muscles in that part of the body involved in the exercise. For the above, we can say that tennis is a complete sport for muscle development.

Know that you can start playing already from 4-7 years, and indeed, it is precisely starting from these ages that you have greater chances of achieving satisfactory results and a high-level competitive career since the child must have time to develop a specific ability to coordinate movements and must be able to easily handle the tools needed to practice this sport: racket and balls.

Nevertheless, tennis is a sport that can bring significant benefits not only to the motor development of children: it improves the ability to coordinate movements and balance, ensures agility and reactivity, and improves the ability to concentrate children, They often have a lack of attention and, if you can create a correct approach with the concept of competition, it increases their self-esteem, it forges the character of training better people.

Very important is that in the early years, especially if you have to deal with very young children, the time dedicated to tennis is interpreted as a moment of play, happiness only so the fun can turn into a real passion.

In conclusion, therefore, we can say with certainty that, if appropriately played, this sport does not present risks to the health of your children. Indeed it will lead them a great motor, coordination, psychological and social development from the earliest years of age.