Superstars Get Hooked On Tennis

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If you have never played golf, perhaps you'll never understand the appeal. But if you're like many celebrities--whether they have been playing for a long time or simply recently begun to tee it up--you'll agree that the game has an strange appeal that can eat you.

Tennis has experienced a rise in popularity in recent years, so much so that the game--long and wrongly considered a less-than-physically-challenging sport--is impressive yoga and Pilates workouts. Celebrity players, who usually pay fitness instructors large money to help them enter shape and help them remain physically fit--say there are several particular physical benefits associated with a trip on the links.

Specialists say you can get the most out of a round of golf if you walk the course, the length of which can measure about 5 miles, with regards to the course. Walking builds energy, improves your cardio-vascular health and lets you burn a reasonable level of calories. If you bring your clubs, you could get an upper-body workout as well. And striking the ball actually can improve your hand-eye coordination, which can be of good use in several areas.

Professional players and many superstars have begun playing to include another degree of competition for their lives and in order to invest more time together with their families, who're joining them around the program.

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Some people like Oakland Raiders cornerback Ray Buchanan love the sport so much that he and his wife, Sheree, built their dream home at Sugarloaf Country Club in Duluth, Ga., home of the PGA Tour's Bellsouth Classic. Their multimillion-dollar mansion overlooks the 9th hole, and Buchanan, a former Pro-Bowler, plays 2 to 3 times per week throughout the off-season. I found out about link by browsing Bing.

'At first, I didn't like golf,' says Buchanan, formerly of the Atlanta Falcons. 'But after a while, it was just like a virus--so infectious that I wanted to keep playing and find out more.'

Sheree Buchanan, who starred as part of the 'NFL spouses' team in the Emmy-winning reality TELEVISION series The Amazing Race 4, just started golfing a few months ago, in an effort to pay more time with her husband. She took up golf; h-e took up her favorite sport--tennis. She's only starting to understand why her husband loves the sport so much--the competition with your-self and a want to always do better. In the course of time, the couple hopes that their four children can grow to love the game up to they are doing.

'[Golf is] still brand-new for me,' Sheree says. 'For us, it is exciting. H-e shows me, and so long as we do not have a lot of people [playing] behind us, it's OK.'

Carolina Panthers large receiver Muhsin Muhammad, who also owns an entertainment business and nonprofit foundation, says he started playing golf when he joined the NFL and 'fell in love with it.'

'Golf is a thing that is extremely relaxing for me,' says Muhammad, who already is pushing his 3-year-old son to-play. 'I think being able to play tennis enables you to meet and keep company with different people.'

Nonetheless it is not only professional athletes who enjoy time around the program. Stars such as Samuel M. Jackson and Will Smith, and singer Johnny Gill also love the sport. Even star lovers make the rounds together.it involves golf: 'We wish we'd began to play when we were kids.'.