Golf has been known as an enjoyable pastime and is a timeless game that contains a variety of benefits, such as social and health advantages. It is played by numerous individuals. Here is why golf is a healthy hobby that you should indulge in during your retirement years.
Physical Benefits
Researchers claimed that the average golfer can burn over 1400 calories walking 18 holes, and 850 riding in the cart, helping individuals to be more physically active and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Individuals can both partake in an enjoyable pastime while taking care of their health at the same time. Playing golf can also help to increase muscle strength, improve cardiovascular functions as well as improve endurance, which are all crucial to maintaining your health in your retirement years. Not only that, but golf also helps to promote core muscle strength which is a crucial way to help prevent lower back pain. Taking up golf as a hobby, therefore, provides multiple benefits to your health, and might help you prolong your years as well.
Mental Benefits
Golf is an activity that requires mental stimulation and is filled with precise mental calculations like ball location, wind direction, and slope measurements. Knowing these are all imperative to succeeding in the game, and is also a great way to help keep your mental capacities strong. Since it includes exercise and physical activity, playing golf can also help to release endorphin hormones, which can help to boost your mood as well as your well-being. This can help you to manage the stress of day-to-day life and also teaches you the importance of values like patience and managing your emotions well to prevent sending the mental component of the game into a tailspin.
Social Benefits
Golf can also be a social activity and help individuals to make connections with others. Weekly golf outings can help to build and maintain relationships with people that you meet as well as provide you with a repeating event to look forward to. Social stimulation is also crucial to an individual’s mental health and can help to produce serotonin.
Choose Morada Pantego for Active Retirement
If you are concerned about your living arrangements, choose Morada Pantego to help ensure a carefree and active retirement lifestyle for yourself. We are committed to making sure that residents have everything that we have to offer. We provide the independent living option which provides a balance between the maintenance of your personal freedom and any help that we are able to provide. It also helps ensure an active lifestyle as residents would be able to participate in recreational activities such as golf as mentioned above and socialize with other residents which can help to prevent social isolation as well as the onset of depression. Residents would then be able to engage in a healthy and enjoyable hobby during their retirement years. Contact us now to find out more about what we have to offer.
