The Effects of Playing Soccer
Soccer is a well-known and very popular sport that is played worldwide. It provides broad-spectred health and fitness effects equal to running, but in some cases it is even better. It has many positive effects that can affect your daily life, both physically and mentally.
Many researchers have studied the effects of playing soccer on different people who are not even trained, from ages 9 to 77 years old. They found that when running in soccer, if a person is trained for two-three hours per week, it can cause significant cardiovascular, metabolic, and musculoskeletal adaptations, but depends on the the gender of the person, age or lack of experience. Men can be a bit more athletic and more fit to run faster or move quicker than women. The age can be a difference depending on how athletic the person is. Soccer training is thought to be a lot more effective and superior to running training, such as track, and it helps you train to maintain speed and balance in distance ran. Soccer training helps enhance your fitness and can keep you in good shape, depending on the periods of time training. Soccer can help relieve stress or “worries”, which helps you stay motivated and happy.
One important benefit of playing soccer is the ability to improve your cardiovascular fitness level, which is the efficiency of your heart, lungs and vascular system to pass and deliver oxygen to and through your muscles. Also, your respiration and heartbeat increases, which can allow you to sprint, run, or jog for a long period of time. Playing soccer helps provide muscles from your neck to your feet. Soccer requires you to use not just your feet, but your whole body including your head. Soccer not only helps you build a stronger body, but a stronger mind as well. It helps you think more critically and strategically when playing a game.
Although there are many positive things about playing soccer, there are also negative things about playing soccer. Many soccer players can get injured in a game which can sometimes affect you in the future. The most common injuries are always leg injuries such as bruises, pulls, tears, and sprains. If over the years you get hit or injured frequently, it can lead you into having tendinitis, shin splints, and joint problems. When using your head to hit the ball into the goal or passing it to another person, it can make people feel dizzy or headaches which throughout time, can give people concussions and also can lead you to brain injury over time.
By Josue Ramirez