2 It is not suitable for practicing yoga when it is cold +0. You sweat when you exercise, and a lot of toxins are excreted. On the surface, it can relieve cold symptoms. However, due to immunosuppression within 24 hours after exercise, immune cells are resting and recuperating during this time, which will give bacteria and viruses an opportunity, easily lead to aggravation of colds, and even induce symptoms such as viral myocarditis and rheumatism.
2. After exercise, the body's metabolism is relatively strong, the sugar, fat and protein in the body are consumed in large quantities, and the body's resistance is weakened, which is easy to aggravate cold symptoms.
3. Keep breathing even when practicing yoga. If you practice yoga with a serious cold and a stuffy nose, it will not only affect your breathing, but also affect your practice effect, and it is easy to aggravate your illness and consume your physical strength.
How to practice yoga when you have a cold? Straighten your legs. Sit down, straighten your arms, hold your thumb with your index finger, inhale, hold your chest out, bend your spine, exhale, and lean forward. Try to keep your chest and abdomen close to your legs and your elbows touch as much as possible. Hold for 5 to 10 seconds, inhale and return to relax. This action can increase blood circulation and effectively prevent colds.
Practitioners of abdominal breathing keep lying flat, close their eyes, put one hand on the lower abdomen and the other hand on the upper abdomen, relax the muscles of the whole body, inhale gently through the nose, feel the gas passing through the nose, throat and chest, and slowly fill the abdomen until the abdomen is completely lifted, then exhale slowly, until the abdominal gas is completely exhaled and the abdomen sinks naturally, and then continue the expiratory circulation, which can effectively relieve the symptoms of colds.
How to practice yoga to prevent colds 1. Practitioners keep King Kong sitting posture, thumbs crossed, hips sitting on heels, heels apart, inhale, hands folded, shoulders raised, arms close to ears, protruding, body bent forward, forehead touching the ground for 8 seconds, then inhale, get up and repeat the exercise for 8 times.
2. Practitioners lie on their backs on the yoga mat. After pranayama, their bodies protrude, their elbows touch the ground, their chests are propped up, their heads touch the ground, their hands are crossed, and abdominal breathing is adopted, and their feet are raised at 45 degrees from the ground, which can effectively strengthen the abdominal visceral function and effectively prevent colds.