What Can Sports Do for Me?

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What Can Sports Do for Me?

Alan Ortiz Pimentel

Pontificia Universidad Catlica Madre y Maestra

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic


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all sport practice it may induce us to just resign and just give up. But if all those physical

improvements were easy to get, where will be the fun then? As the American rapper Jones

said in one of his song: Go hard or g o home (2004) .

There are people that consider sports, as the best way to lose weight and get in

shape quickly, but it goes beyond that. What most of the people do not realize when they

practice sports, is that you also can get mental benefits, but those benefits seems to be so

simple and ordinary that you cannot realize it right away. These mental benefits express

themselves in characteristics of optimism, and enthusiasm, which can give you a rise of

self-esteem, a reduced your levels of tension and stress, and also reduce the level of

depression. These allow us to adapt later to difficult situations in our live, such as: anger,

aggressiveness, among others.

Teenagers are the ones that can obtain more mental benefits from sports. After all,

adolescence is the age of complex changes to a human being, and everything around them

can be a significant influence on their behavior for the future. Hopefully, sports can provide

them with discipline, which they can use to get more character building. And these make

them more suitable to be molded into the right path.

Sports are in fact a great thing for our life, as we already see. It can grant us great

physical and mental conditions, but what we should give thanks for, is that the sports are

not totally practiced alone. This is the best part of sports, because it can improve your

chances to create relationships with others. But more than improve it; it forces you to do it.

Social isolation is not an option with sports. You will want to learn how to play, and you

will need to ask, to see, to understand, and to make it.


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However, we know that is known that not all the sports are made for teams to play.

And relationships can be created faster with teammates than in solo sports. When you play

with teammates or alone, against rivals or a rival, you develop your sociability and

understand the importance of respecting others (Toro, n.d.).

As you can see, you need to put all your heart and effort to do your best in any kind

of sport you want to try. I can only tell you some of the benefits that practicing sports in

your daily life can provide for you. The physical improvement, the psychological effects,

and the creation of relationships with others, are just a small part of an immense universe of

possibilities. And who knows, maybe the next time you read this paper again, you would be

the three times Most Value Player in a NBA season, holding the FIFA World Cup, or just

finishing your regular jogging of 15 kilometers to the bay. The possibilities are infinite;

dont let them disappear.


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References

Albarrn, C., & Martn, A. (n.d.). Ejercicio y Corazn. Retrieved from Fucalec:

http://www.fucalec.com/PACIENTES/documentos/Ejercicio_y_corazon.pdf

Jones, R. J. (Composer). (2004). Body Head Bangerz. [C. Fassett, D. Turner, D. Davis, R. J. Jones,

Performers, & R. J. Jones, Conductor] United States.

Toro, V. (n.d.). Los beneficios del deporte para los adolescentes. Retrieved from About.com:

http://adolescentes.about.com/od/Deportes/a/Los-Beneficios-Del-Deporte-Para-Los-

Adolescentes.htm

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