The weight loss effect of winter swimming: Look at its benefits to the body

Although winter swimming is good for the body, it should also be carried out at an appropriate time. The following editor introduces the time suitable for winter swimming:

1. Winter swimming is best from 1 pm to 4 pm

Winter swimming is a sport in severe cold and a sport in which people can enjoy the sun. Therefore, it should be carried out during the warmest time of the day as much as possible. The warmest time in winter is generally around 1 noon. The temperature in the afternoon is higher than in the morning. Therefore, if winter swimmers 'own time permits, it is best to arrange winter swimming between 1 noon and 4 p.m. First, they can take a break after lunch and swim before swimming, and their physical condition is better; second, they are sunny and can also sunbathe.

In addition, the advantages of winter swimming in the morning are fresh air, clean water and slow waves, and high content of negative oxygen ions on river banks and seashore. However, the disadvantages are that the temperature is cold, the sun is not enough, and the water temperature is also the lowest in the day. There is insufficient light for winter swimming at night and accidents can occur, so you should be very careful. Overall, winter swimming is best when it is warm in the afternoon.

2. Winter swimming before meals has a better effect

Some winter swimmers believe that winter swimming will be more energetic and have more calories when they are full. In fact, this practice is not scientific. The digestive organs are very sensitive to temperature. Heat stimulation can cause the digestive organs to be excited, while cold stimulation plays an inhibitory role. Winter swimming immediately after eating affects digestion and absorption, and can easily cause digestive diseases such as acute gastritis.

Winter swimming before meals is better. No new fatty acids enter the fat cells. It is easier to "mobilize" them and convert them into calories through exercise, and the effect is the best.

What are the benefits of winter swimming to your body?

1. It can enhance cardiovascular function. After the human body is stimulated by cold water, the blood circulation and metabolism of the whole body are greatly strengthened; the human skin is stimulated by cold water, and the skin blood vessels contract sharply, and a large amount of blood is sucked into the internal organs and deep tissues, causing the blood vessels of important internal organs to dilate; In order to resist cold, the skin blood vessels quickly expand again, so a large amount of blood flows from the internal organs to the body surface. This characteristic expansion and contraction exercises the blood vessels and enhances the elasticity of the blood vessels. Therefore, winter swimming is beneficial to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Among people who insist on doing winter swimming all year round, people suffering from arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, etc. are extremely rare.

2. The stimulation of cold water closes the peripheral blood vessels of the human body, which ensures an increase in blood supply to important organs such as the heart, brain, liver, and spleen, and allows more oxygen to be delivered to brain cells in a timely manner, which is conducive to eliminating fatigue in the nervous system. After the human body comes into contact with cold water, it will inhale rapidly, pause breathing for a while, and then return to deep exhalation, and then resume even, deep and powerful breathing. This breathing can greatly improve the elasticity of the lung tissue, inhale more oxygen, and exhale more carbon dioxide, and the function of the respiratory system is strengthened. Cold water can improve the function of the human digestive system. As breathing deepens, the diaphragm rises and falls, thereby accelerating blood circulation in the abdominal cavity, strengthening gastrointestinal peristalsis, and massaging adjacent organs.

3. People who insist on winter swimming have ruddy, shiny and elastic skin. The reason is that after cold water stimulation, skin blood vessels contract strongly, subcutaneous fat thickens, blood circulation is strong, and nutrition is sufficient.

Who is not suitable for winter swimming

1. Teenagers under the age of 16 and elderly people over the age of 70 are not suitable for winter swimming due to their special physical conditions;

2. People with more serious heart disease, more serious hypertension, hepatitis, more serious nephritis, more serious gastric ulcer and other diseases should not engage in winter swimming. If the body is not adapted to it, winter swimming may aggravate the condition.

3. Patients with otitis media should not swim to avoid water entering the ears and difficult to expel, causing perforation of the middle ear. Wear earplugs when swimming after the otitis media is cured and do not let water into your ears.

4. In order to keep everyone healthy, people suffering from infectious skin diseases and people suffering from any infectious disease are not suitable for swimming. This is to stop the spread of infectious diseases.