How long is it appropriate to exercise after meals?

Exercise not only strengthens the body, but also can be excellent for all kinds of chronic diseases can be prevented. Most people like to exercise after meals, in fact, running or exercising directly after meals is not desirable, it will bring gastrointestinal stimulation, causing nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps and other uncomfortable symptoms. At the same time, the body's digestive system needs a lot of blood to help digest food and absorb nutrients after eating a full meal. If you exercise immediately, your body's muscles also need a lot of blood to participate in the blood supply to the digestive system and muscle tissue at the same time, which can easily lead to digestive dysfunction, causing indigestion, but also affect the effect of exercise.

So how long can you exercise after meals?

By 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 exercises can be carried out one hour to two hours after meals. Long-distance running, jumping rope, playing soccer, basketball and other high-intensity sports, it is appropriate to be two hours to three hours after meals.

By meal size, if the meal size before exercise is larger, and eat protein and fat-based food, which are not well digested, it is best to exercise more than two hours after the meal. If the meal size is smaller and the food is based on 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, sit quietly with family and friends together after meals, chat more after dinner happy topics. Both to maintain a good mood, but also to ensure the best digestion of food.

1 to 1.5 hours after the meal: this time, the peak of the digestion of food is basically over, the general movement is not relevant. Exercises such as brisk walking and jogging can be started slowly. As the saying goes, "walk after meals, live to ninety-nine", walk after meals can promote digestion, but strenuous exercise or moderation. Eat how long you can exercise involves the problem of gastric emptying time, if you drink is not particularly much water, about ten minutes after the completion of the emptying; eating is mainly sugar such as steamed bread, the integrated discharge time of about 1 hour or so; eat are high-fat, high-protein, especially difficult to digest the food may be a little longer. Usually eat a balanced diet, more mixed, not too full, about 2-3 hours is enough to empty. As long as you don't exercise when you are particularly bloated, 2 hours after a meal is more appropriate. If the peristalsis itself is particularly slow, 2 hours after eating still feel bloated and uncomfortable, or more moderate exercise is better, do not exercise more exercise, if the amount of exercise is particularly large on the gastrointestinal tract on the contrary, have a bad effect.

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