Practicing outdoors sports brings benefits for society

Aim: to gather seminal studies concerning the social, psychological and physical benefits elicited by the practice of regular outdoor sports. Cutting-edge technologies and the rapid urbanization have led to several benefits for mankind and society, however such benefits have been accompanied with the alarming diffusion of sedentary disorders, metabolic diseases, depression and socialization problems, affecting global economy dramatically. Literature reports the association between the pandemic expansion of chronic diseases and physical inactivity. Contemporaneously, International Olympic Committee have included five new sports—primarily outdoors ones—into Olympic Games, remarking a somewhat interest for the inner social and health-related values of outdoor sports. Methods:We scouted national and international studies focusing on the benefits of regular outdoors sports and -physical activities across all ages. Results: According to a univocal literature, performing outdoor sports and -physical activities may bear social, psychological and physiological benefits. Preventive effects are similarly documented in youth and old people towards several diseases (myopia, multiple sclerosis and osteoporosis). Conclusions: In the sight of the beneficial effects of outdoor sports and -physical activities, promotion strategies should be strongly advocated and developed nationally and globally. Simultaneously to this, dedicated research areas should convey efforts to draw up guidelines for the various outdoor activities, so to represent ‘‘the good practices’’ within the social scenario and the healthcare system. References Shanahan F. D., Franco L., Lin B. B., Gaston J. K., Fuller A. R. (2016) The benefits of Natural