Playing and Enjoying the Outdoor Sport of Badminton

Playing and Enjoying the Outdoor Sport of Badminton

  There are different kinds of outdoor sports that you can do especially when you are tired of sitting in front of your computer and television at home or when you get bored from always doing the same routine inside the house and playing different board games. It is time for you to extend your muscles and sweat out. You need to move and try out doing any form of recreation outside your house. It would be a great time to enjoy the beautiful day.

This sport and at the same time recreational activity is good for the whole body. It is a kind of play that lets you move all the muscles of your body which is a good reason for it to be considered one of the best exercises. It is both enjoyed by men and women at varying ages. You just need to prepare your racket, shuttlecock and of course water or energy drinks to replenish your body with the sweat that it excretes.

Badminton is a fantastic sport. Not only is it great fun and a good opportunity to socialize with like minded people, but there are also many health benefits of playing badminton.

Let's take a look at a few of these now.

Flexibility - no one can deny that Badminton improves your flexibility in most of the major muscles, including the hamstrings, erector spinae, pectorals, triceps and many other areas. It's an absolute necessity that good players maintain a healthy level of flexibility in all of these muscles. Whilst stretching hasn't been proven to have a positive effect before playing, there is certainly plenty of evidence to prove that it is beneficial afterward.

Strength - Obviously your upper body won't gain too much strength due to playing Badminton, but your forearms, thighs and calves will be sufficiently challenged to improve their strength and power. Anyone who has ever done a series of jump smashes back to back will testify to the huge challenge this places on the thighs muscles.

Muscular Endurance - Absolutely vital to any Badminton players, it's the ability to keep going right to the end of a match. Virtually every muscle group has to continuously contract in a long game of badminton. From the calves right up to the shoulders.

Heart and Lungs - Again Badminton places a very challenging workload on the heart. Those who regularly play singles or against a particularly good doubles pairing will agree with me on this one. Short bursts of all out effort are often required in quick fire rallies which can often last for well over 10 shots per point. This series of stop start action, intense activity interspersed with short periods of rest is very much like interval training which is rapidly becoming one of the most popular types of fitness training techniques.

Mobility - As we age our joints can become less fluid or movable. The connective tissue and bone endings can become worn and are therefore not as mobile as when we were younger. It's important as we age to maintain a certain amount of movement in our joints otherwise both our posture and the performance of simple everyday tasks becomes much more of a challenge. Badminton helps to lubricate and mobilize almost all the joints on the body so again it's a very useful sport to take part in.

These are just a few of the most obvious health benefits of playing Badminton, but what many people overlook is the social side of the sport. Not only for meeting and interacting with people who share the same passion for the sport as you, but more so for the bringing together of people who love to use and challenge their bodies in a way that can actually improve their health and well being the way that Badminton can do.

Final Fantasy XIII: How to beat Orphan

Boss Battle: Orphan

Well you made it to the end and now must face the toughest boss of them all. Orphan is probably the hardest boss you’ll encounter, and like many bosses you have to defeat Orphan twice. By now you should have decent characters, but even so, you’re going to be heavily tested in this battle, and you really need a high HP to have any chance of succeeding.

General Strategy to beat Orphan

Battle 1 (Form 1)

• Start of by being defensive – you’re going to need a lot of healing, so any of the decent healing paradigms is useful – get everyone back to a high HP level – the higher the better and then you can start thinking about attacking.
• Buff, buff and more buff – you’re going to be switching to healing paradigms quite often as you buff your characters – without the buffs you’ll have no chance. You must use shell, protect and haste at least, and probably should use faith and bravery – the more buffs the better.
• Try to debuff Orphan while buffing up – deshell and deprotect at least. This isn’t easy, but it does really help.
• Once buffed and healed, go on the offensive with relentless assault – the aim of course is to build the chain gauge.  
• Keep an eye on HP constantly and switch to diversity to heal.
• Eventually you’ll fill the chain gauge, so now is the time to throw everything at Orphan – use tri-disaster paradigm to do most damage.
• Keep you HP very high – but try and keep up the offensive – the more damage you do quickly the better.
• Orphan will alternate between two forms and he will use a merciless judgment attack before changing form. This is a very dangerous attack and you really need to ensure you are fully healed and buffed – you should also switch to a strong healing paradigm while this attack is being used.
• In the second form (consummate darkness) Orphan will heal himself, so you’re probably best re-buffing and healing yourself and waiting for the first form (consummate light) to concentrate on attack.
• Later on Orphan will be able to heal and attack at the same time – just keep up the attacks as per the above instructions and you’ll slowly wear Orphan down – like before you must watch your HP and not let it slip too low – use Diversity where necessary.
• Make sure you use potions and items wisely – at times you will be poisoned or silenced and not only will you have to get rid of these ‘effects’ but you’ll also have to rebuff and probably heal yourself.
• Be as offensive as possible but make sure to keep your buffs and HP high – even if you have Orphan staggered, you may need to use this as an opportunity to rebuff etc.
• Be patient, this is a long arduous battle but not too difficult.

So keep everyone’s HP in the green, go full offence when you can, and try to maintain your buffs. Go hell for leather when you stagger Orphan, and you should win out fine. On a final note, Orphan will not attack while staggered, so if you’re in bad shape or your buffs are running out, you may want to pass up the opportunity for damage to heal your party instead.