May 2013
Badminton: benefits and disadvantages
Often practiced as an outdoor game, badminton is above all an intensive sport which requires technical skills and endurance.
Benefits of badminton
Coordination, flexibility, endurance, visual acuteness
- Improves coordination, flexibility and balance.
- Exercises the glutei (accelerations), abdominal and dorsal muscles (receptions and returns), reinforces the joints.
- Develops spatial perception and visual acuteness
- Improves endurance, fights against obesity, stress or anxiety.
In the long run, the practice of badminton improves
- Endurance,
- Reflexes,
- Perception and coordination of movements,
- Technicality,
- Centre of gravity.
Contraindications of badminton
Badminton, although it involves the majority of the muscles and joints of the body, is not a sport to be avoided neither should it be seen as a dangerous sport. Some precautions are to be taken at the following levels:
- The lower extremities,
- The ankles (risks of sprains),
- The knees,
- Be careful of tendinitis, contusions,
- Risk of pain to the shoulders and the deltoids.
A non-contraindication certificate
- An annual medical consultation is advised, to check the heart, respiratory, ophthalmologic and articular functions.
- From the age of 35, more advanced cardiac tests are required for competition.
Badminton and children
Badminton is first of all a ludic sport, easy and accessible at any age. It allows the child or the adolescent:
- To practice an intensive sport while preserving his joints thanks to the lightness and the handiness of the equipment,
- To improve his psychomotor capacities by the originality of the trajectory of the shuttlecock,
- To sharpen his visual concentration and functions.
In short, badminton remains a sport that can be practised by everybody, outdoor or indoor, with more or less intensity, improving greatly the player's wellbeing and physical condition.
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