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Here are a few reasons why:

• Prevents injury by improving balance, stability, bone density, and increasing joint strength.
• Helps you become mentally stronger as it can teach you mental skills such as perseverance, the ability to overcome discomfort and challenge yourself.
• Improves human performance by making you stronger, faster, and more efficient.
• Increases lean body mass, which will improve your metabolic rate and aid in achieving and maintaining a healthy body weight and body composition.
• Protecting against osteoporosis, improving/maintaining posture and alignment, and improving/maintaining your physical performance and metabolic rate as you age.
• Enhancing your current activities, boosting your performance, and fixing structural limitations and imbalances that result from using one muscle group more than another.
• You may also experience less pains and risk of injuries due to increased strength and body control and can help offset damage from having a job where you're constantly sitting all day. Making your health a priority pays long term dividends.

Tips

• Always warm up and stretch your joints and muscles before you hit the court. Make it a point to stretch and cool down after a game as well.
• Basketball is a physically demanding game. It is important to have plenty of fluids on hand so that you can rehydrate your body at regular intervals.
• Because of the physical demands, it is important that you keep yourself flexible and strong.

With the many benefits of basketball, it is the perfect reason for you to pick up a ball and start shooting some hoops. It can be played alone or with friends – no matter what you choose, you get a great workout. By making this sport a part of your fitness routine, you ensure that you stay physically and mentally fit and active for many years.