Winter sports are essential to improve physical fitness and enhance the ability to fight viruses

Recently, "positive" cases have been reported everywhere, and many people have felt the discomfort caused by the virus to the body and the importance of physical fitness. However, winter is the time when most people neglect exercise, which inevitably gives various viruses an opportunity to take advantage. Therefore, in order to enhance physical fitness, winter exercise is essential!

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What are the benefits of winter sports?

1. Enhance immunity

The weather is cold in winter, and exercise will speed up the body's metabolism. After the body is stimulated by low temperature, the antibodies produced in the blood will increase, and the ability to fight various viruses in winter will also be enhanced.

2. Stronger cold resistance

Exercising more in winter will enhance the body's adaptability to the environment and help improve people's willpower. In the long run, the body's ability to resist cold will be enhanced.

3. Better fat burning effect

Winter exercise can speed up metabolism and stimulate the activity of fat, especially some aging fat. So the same amount of exercise will have a better fat burning effect in winter.

4. Exercise your cardiopulmonary function

Winter exercise requires the respiratory organs to work harder. Over time, winter exercise can help improve a person's lung capacity and enhance their cardiopulmonary function.

5. Improves Mood

When you exercise, the substances in your body that make you happy will increase. Exercise also promotes blood circulation, increases oxygen supply to the brain, and can improve your mood.

6. Prevent osteoporosis

Compared with other seasons, the winter sun is warm and gentle. It is a good time to do some outdoor sports in sunny weather and sunbathe. It helps promote calcium absorption and prevent osteoporosis.

What sports can you do in winter?

1. Jogging

The temperature is lower in winter, so we can do jogging, avoiding the colder time in the morning and evening. Winter sports do not require profuse sweating, just a slight heat in the body and a little sweating is enough.

2. Skipping rope

Rope skipping can effectively consume body fat and exercise muscles. The calories consumed are about three times that of jogging. It can also help improve cardiopulmonary function and speed up blood circulation throughout the body.

3. Yoga

Yoga not only helps to relax nerves and relieve psychological stress, but also can eliminate toxins and make the body flexible. It is suitable for people with low immune levels to practice for a long time, but be careful not to choose difficult yoga movements.

4. Tai Chi

Tai Chi is one of my country's traditional health-preserving exercises. As a non-confrontational, non-intense sport, Tai Chi is relatively friendly to the knees. Practicing Tai Chi for a long time can keep people in a healthier state.

Winter sports precautions:

1. Clothing: When you wear clothes for winter sports, you should not only keep warm, but also keep them breathable. This is because when you exercise, you need to ensure that the heat is dissipated in time so that water vapor will not condense in the clothes and your body temperature can be maintained.

2. Warm-up time: In winter, because of the cold weather, people’s joints and muscles are stiffer, so the warm-up time needs to be extended longer than usual to better avoid sports injuries.

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3. Breathing: Try to breathe through your nose. This can prevent a large amount of cold air from entering your lungs and reduce irritation to your respiratory tract.

4. Rest time: In order to keep the muscles warm and elastic, we need to shorten the rest time during exercise appropriately.

5. Keep warm: If you sweat a lot during exercise, be sure to change your wet clothes in time after exercise.

Although winter is cold, proper exercise is also needed by the body. You can take it step by step according to your own situation and slowly adapt yourself to exercise.