Basketball: Get Fit, Burn
Fat
Fitness and Fat-Burning
Combined
Playing basketball is a
good way to improve fitness and burn stored fat. Basketball burns calories,
and - if combined with a calorie-controlled diet plan - will cause the
body to burn fat-tissue - including abdominal fat. In addition, basketball
helps to develop the lower body muscles, so you improve fitness and get
into shape.
Basketball Improves Fat
Percentage
About 45 minutes of basketball
burns about 450 calories. In one year, this daily fitness workout burns
a total of 164,250 calories per year - about 47 pounds of stored body
fat. This fat-burning improves the body's fat-percent - the muscle-to-fat
ratio.
Basketball: Fat-Burning
Health Benefits
Because it helps to burn
body-fat, a regular fitness workout (like basketball) contributes to improved
health in several ways. It helps reduce abdominal fat, associated with
serious illness; it assists weight loss/control, thus maintaining normal
cholesterol levels and blood pressure. Finally, it releases endorphins
the happiness chemicals that improve mood. These health benefits are further
increased by a healthy eating-plan.
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