If you’re looking to switch up your usual fitness regime and get away from the gym, badminton can be a fantastic alternative. It provides a heart-racing workout, some great health benefits and can be played socially, as well as competitively. This session is £2.50 per person and carers are more than welcome.
BENEFITS OF BADMINTON
Badminton offers a whole host of benefits ranging from:
- Badminton is a Total Body Workout – While you’re lunging, diving, running and getting your heart pumping, playing a game of badminton can help you burn around 450 calories an hour. The varied movements provide a powerful cardio workout by engaging the entire body, including the hamstrings, quads, calves and your core.
- Socialising
- Badminton Improves Your Mental Wellbeing
- Heart Health
- Badminton Helps Reduce Health Risks
- Increased Life Expectancy – A Danish study carried out on 9,000 people, found that playing a racket-based sport such as badminton can increase your life expectancy by approximately six years. Football can increase life expectancy by more than four years, while cycling, swimming and jogging can each boost life expectancy by over three years.
Improved Mobility
Service access criteria:
Leisure Centre, sports Facilities, badminton
Categories:
Connecting with others
Getting active
Healthy lifestyle
Mental health
Additional needs catered for:
Vision impairment friendly
Hearing impairment friendly
Wheelchair accessible
Learning difficulty friendly
Physical disability friendly
Non English speaking friendly
Leisure Centre, sports Facilities, badminton, Fitness