There are many ways to exercise. Common aerobic exercises are: swimming, skipping, Tai Chi, square dancing, walking and so on. These exercise methods are suitable for all ages. For the elderly, we should pay a little attention and choose a slower way of exercise.
For the elderly, in addition to walking, Tai Chi, square dance and other ways, you can also try to tiptoe every day.
Because many times the body has problems or uncomfortable symptoms, the foot will be abnormal first, because the foot is the farthest part from our heart.
Women who belong to the end of blood circulation, especially those with cold constitution, often have cold hands and feet. If you try to stick to tiptoe exercise every day, it may help you solve many problems.
Chinese medicine believes that cold hands and feet is a kind of "closed disease".
The so-called "Guan" is also unreasonable, especially when the weather is cold or the body is attacked by cold evil, which leads to the cold of the liver pulse, affects the normal hematopoietic function of the liver, and the deficiency of kidney yang leads to cold hands and feet.
The foot is the second heart of the human body, which gathers most of the meridians of the body and has many acupoints, which correspond to the internal organs.
Therefore, the health of feet is closely related to kidney essence and yang qi. If you can keep your feet healthy, it is of great significance to your health. However, it's a good idea to stand on tiptoe.
The foot pad mainly exercises the muscles of the back of the calf, including soleus muscle and intestinal discharge muscle. Soleus muscle can promote venous return of the lower limbs. Through the movement of foot pads, the poor blood circulation of lower limbs can be improved, and the problem of cold hands and feet can be alleviated.
Therefore, for people who often have cold hands and feet in life, try tiptoe exercise, which may bring other benefits to the body, such as the following five questions.
So what benefits can you bring to your health by keeping the habit of walking on tiptoe every day?
1. Any exercise can relieve stress, and tiptoe heels are no exception.
Tiptoe tip can promote cardiopulmonary function, promote blood circulation, improve the control of autonomic nerves in the body, relieve anxiety and stress, and keep the brain thinking active and relaxed.
2. Warming kidney-yang
In the process of tiptoe movement, the inside of the forefoot and the thumb of the foot are supported, so that the kidney meridian of Foot Shaoyin, liver meridian of Foot Jueyin and spleen meridian of Foot Taiyin can be massaged through this part, thus achieving the function of warming and protecting the kidney.
Especially for the elderly, if they insist on tiptoe exercise every day, long-term persistence will also help alleviate the decline of kidney qi.
3. Promote blood circulation in the lower body.
When the human body stays standing or sitting for a long time, the feet are likely to be sore and numb, resulting in poor blood circulation and poor reflux of the lower limbs. If you stand on tiptoe for a period of time every day, you can get relief and promote blood circulation in the lower body.
4, tiptoe heel can also improve the role of low back pain.
The main causes of low back pain include bladder invasion by wind, cold and dampness, and poor blood circulation.
If this is the case, it can be relieved by walking fast every day or walking on tiptoe to stimulate the bladder meridian and exercise the gluteus and tibia muscles.
Step 5 protect your knees
During the toe movement, the muscles at the back of both legs are squeezed and contracted, which makes the blood circulation smooth, promotes the blood return of the lower limbs, helps to shape the legs, and can also avoid knee injury.
So since tiptoe exercise has so many benefits, are there any precautions? Just grasp these two points.
1, frequency
The tiptoe exercises you get from above are really good for your health, but don't do them too often. It is recommended to stop and rest after walking on tiptoe for 30 to 50 times, and then exercise after rest.
At the same time, we should decide the number and speed of exercise according to our physical condition. At first, you can walk with your hands on the wall, and then you can leave the wall and do it yourself when you are skilled. In short, we should make use of the comfortable quality of the body to do toe exercises.
2. Load
For office workers, due to the lack of exercise in sedentary posture, in fact, they can also do foot pad exercise when sitting.
First, keep your knees flush with your legs, then put a load on your legs and train your toes 30 to 50 times at a time. You can also adjust the frequency and speed according to your physical condition.