How long after a meal can I do strenuous exercise?

If you often exercise after a meal, you must have a buffer time. You must not do sports directly after a meal, otherwise it will have a great negative impact on our stomach and our whole body. Many of us have various diseases because we do not pay great attention to these things. Let us understand how long after a meal we can do strenuous exercise.

In daily life, we often see some students running out to participate in some games or intense activities as soon as they put down their bowls. In fact, this is very harmful to health. Because after a meal, a large amount of blood in the human body flows to the digestive system, especially the gastrointestinal organs, to ensure the supply of oxygen and nutrients required for digestion.

However, if you do strenuous exercise at this time, a large amount of blood will flow to the motor organs, especially the limbs, to ensure the needs of muscle work, which will cause insufficient blood supply to the digestive system, and the gastrointestinal tract will not get enough blood, so the gastrointestinal motility will slow down and weaken. In addition, when the human body is exercising, the excitability of the sympathetic nerves increases, and the excitability of the vagus nerves decreases, which inhibits the secretion of digestive juices, which affects the digestion and absorption process. If you often do strenuous exercise after meals, it will cause severe gastrointestinal digestive diseases such as stomach pain, indigestion, ulcers, and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, which will cause greater harm to your health. It can be seen that it is appropriate to do some light physical activities after a meal, so how long after a meal is appropriate to exercise? Generally speaking, it is more reasonable to do activities half an hour to an hour after a meal, and intense competition activities are best arranged half an hour after a meal.

How long after a meal can we do strenuous exercise? We must all pay great attention to this issue in order to effectively avoid unnecessary harm caused by these minor problems. At the same time, we must master some scientific exercise methods that can effectively improve the effect of exercise, and we must also pay special attention to our balanced diet.