Pickleball Fever! … It’s Time to Renew

The TAP board invites you to make sure your membership is current. If you haven’t already, please consider renewing your membership today. For those who aren’t members please consider joining us with an annual fee of only $25. Your membership helps insure free public pickleball will continue to be offered to the Tucson pickleball community.

Tucson Area Pickleball (TAP) promotes the growth and development of pickleball in the Tucson area. TAP is a 501(c)(4) Arizona nonprofit corporation– a public charity which receives substantial revenues from a combination of contributions, membership fees, and gross receipts from activities that further its exempt purpose.

The TAP Board is committed to further the growth of pickleball among players of all ages and characteristics. It will continue to provide the infrastructure for the development of the sport through promulgation of official rules, sponsoring and sanctioning tournaments and clinics, communicating with its members via e-mail and newsletters, training of all levels of players, and otherwise promoting pickleball.

 

 

 

New Apple research highlights the health benefits of pickleball

The Apple Heart and Movement Study reveals tennis and pickleball are a win for overall health, as pickleball’s popularity continues to rise. Researchers from the Apple Heart and Movement Study share new insights into one of the fastest-growing sports around the world: pickleball. To see how this emerging sport compared against the long-standing game of tennis, and how it impacts overall health, researchers turned to the data.

In one of the largest observational datasets of pickleball activity collected using Apple Watch, researchers found trends in both pickleball and tennis workout data that highlight the potential health benefits of both activities.
Participants often played pickleball and tennis for long periods of time, averaging a peak heart rate within 70 percent of their estimated max heart rate during recorded workouts. Pickleball workouts lasted for slightly longer than tennis workouts, while tennis workouts averaged more time spent in higher-intensity heart rate zones and had a higher average peak heart rate.

Read more here.