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Water
polo is an excellent all-round physical exercise as well as a game of
strength, speed and endurance. Water polo is a great team sport similar
to soccer or basketball involving speed, agility and good ball-handling
skills. Players of this sport increase their swimming ability and
endurance since both are especially important with this mobile,
fast-paced game. HRH Prince
William and the R&B singer Sean Paul are famous faces that play the
game.
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Brad Cardinal, Ph.D., co-director of the sport
and exercise lab at Oregon
State
University
cites water polo as a sport that combines all
the elements of fitness--cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength,
endurance, and flexibility. “This game requires non-stop churning
of the legs to stay upright and move around the pool, while defending
and throwing the ball tax the upper body and abdominals. The 63 to 88
calories you burn up during each of the four intense seven-minute
periods of a polo game will feel like a lot more than that
aerobically”.
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Cardinal
compares Water Polo (636/885 calories/hour) for its fitness requirements
to Soccer (636/885* calories/hour), Basketball (509/709 calories/hour),
Rugby
(636/885 calories/hour), Football (509/709 calories/hour).
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