From childhood adults have taught us not to exercise strenuously after meals, but how many people have thought about why not exercise strenuously? Let me tell you, I hope it is useful to everyone.
Why can't you exercise after meals?
1. Impact on weight loss: immediately after eating a meal to exercise weight loss friends must pay attention to, after eating a meal in the body of the parasympathetic nerves will be inhibited. At this time, the movement will not only affect the body's digestive system, but also seriously affect the weight loss effect. Exercise experts say that with the decreasing intensity of exercise, the best time to exercise is 3 hours after meals, 2 hours after meals and 1 hour after meals. According to this conclusion, it can be concluded that the best time to lose weight exercise is 3 hours after meals, that is, 3 hours after breakfast to before lunch, 3 hours after lunch to before dinner and 3 hours after dinner to before going to bed.
2. Gastrointestinal stimulation leading to adverse reactions: just after eating, the food in the stomach and intestines with the movement of up and down left and right vibration, so the stomach and intestines will cause mechanical stimulation, leading to stomach cramps, triggered by vomiting and other adverse reactions, so that after the meal can not stand but exercise is this reason.
Serious impact on the body's normal digestive function: exercise to lose weight requires a lot of blood to deliver oxygen, and after eating a meal, the human body will be a lot of blood concentrated in the stomach and intestines, as soon as possible to digest the food just eaten. This will cause the blood that should be concentrated in the stomach and intestines to be dispersed to all parts of the body, which will result in insufficient blood supply to the stomach and intestines, reducing the digestive function, causing functional disorders of digestion and absorption, and seriously affecting the health of the body. Once caused by gastrointestinal diseases, will be accompanied by your whole life, meals are cautious of your diet, a failure to pay attention to the pain, really difficult. So exercise is important, but must also be careful, good treatment of the stomach and intestines.
3. Inhibit fat decomposition: After the meal, the body secretion of insulin will be a rising trend, and the rise of insulin will inhibit the decomposition of fat, and can not achieve the purpose of weight loss.
How long does it take to exercise after a meal?
According to the intensity of the exercise, walking, walking, square dancing, tai chi and other light exercise, half an hour to an hour after meals can be carried out. Jogging, weight loss exercises, cycling and other moderate exercise can be carried out one hour to two hours after meals. Long-distance running, jumping rope, playing soccer, playing basketball and other high-intensity sports, it is appropriate to carry out two hours to three hours after meals.
According to the amount of meals, if the amount of meals before exercise is large, and eat protein and fat-based food, these foods are not well digested, it is best to exercise more than two hours after meals. If the meal size is smaller and the food is mainly carbohydrates, vegetables, fruits or fluids, the interval between meal and exercise can be relatively shortened according to the intensity of the exercise.
How to exercise after meals
Half an hour after meals: In this half school, to rest mainly, sitting quietly with family and friends after meals, chatting with family and friends, chatting about happy topics after tea. Both to maintain a good mood, but also to ensure the best digestion of food.
1 to 1.5 hours after meals: this time, the peak of food digestion is basically over, the general movement is not relevant. Exercises such as brisk walking and jogging can be slowly unfolded. As the saying goes? Walk after meals, live to ninety-nine? , walk after meals can promote digestion, but strenuous exercise is still to be restrained.
After the exercise, take a bath, the slimming effect is better
The bath can be the body of the old waste discharge, improve the metabolic rate. So a good soak in the bath, weight loss will be more significant. Take a 30-40 minute bath every day, 20 minutes of which will be completely relaxed in the bathtub, with the water deep in the lower edge of the heart.
At this time, the water temperature is 38 degrees appropriate, soaking in warm water can promote blood circulation, activate the immune cells and improve immunity, in short, so that your spirit doubled, not easy to get sick. If you are in the water, if you can add twisting, stretching, if you can improve the metabolism, the weight loss effect is better.