In summer, due to the relatively smooth flow of qi and blood in the human body, the limbs are easier to open.
Have you noticed that during high-temperature yoga or summer yoga practice, the stretching amplitude seems to be particularly large? Especially for friends who often sit in the office with high humidity, arthritis, and difficulty sweating, conducting targeted yoga exercises in the summer can help the body expel cold, stagnant blood, and moisture, which can have a good improvement effect on relieving damaged joints.
I am about to officially enter the scorching summer of the dog days.
The scorching heat is unbearable outdoors, like a huge stove.
Entering the barbecue mode, I am practicing yoga indoors.
Can I blow on the fan or turn on the air conditioning? A legitimate and professional yoga studio and teacher will say to you: Oh, NO! Don’t turn on the air conditioning! It’s not really about saving some electricity bills.
The specific reason is that everyone knows that athletes cannot immediately blow cold air or drink a lot of cold water after intense exercise and sweating all over.
Because at this point, the athlete’s pores are in a fully open state, and between the “inside” and “outside” of the human body, various protective “barriers” have been removed in order to prioritize heat dissipation.
Therefore, if the cold air blows fiercely, the cold air will penetrate the body, causing rapid “contraction” of various tissues and organs in the human body, leading to various discomfort.
Pores originally have a strong filtering effect.
When sweating profusely, the filtering and protective effect almost disappears.
Similarly, in the summer, when we practice yoga and sweat profusely, our body pores will open.
At this time, when we blow the air conditioning or fan, we feel very cool, but the air conditioning moisture and cold will drive straight into the pores, skin, muscles, and deep meridians and joints, easily causing colds, muscle or joint soreness, Various cold air diseases such as shoulder periarthritis.
Severe cases can occur in the summer; Not serious, cold dampness lurks in the body and attacks in the winter of that year, manifested as shoulder and neck stiffness, back pain, arthritis and rheumatism.
From the perspective of practice, the air conditioning of the air conditioner will make the skin less stretchy and soft, but instead become tight.
During regular yoga practice, muscles need to be relaxed in order to perform some forward and backward bending movements.
As soon as the air conditioning is turned on, the temperature artificially cools down.
During practice, either you cannot do it properly or you may easily strain yourself, and the same goes for joints.
Can we turn on the air conditioning for a while before class and turn it off by class time? In principle, it is possible, but it is also recommended not to turn on the air conditioner as much as possible.
Turning on the air conditioner before class will inevitably close the doors and windows, as there is not enough air circulation
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