What are the benefits of crawling exercises?

Because people pay more attention to health, more and more people will use their spare time to exercise. Since everyone's living habits and preferences are different, their ways of exercising are also different. Some people like to go to the gym to do some equipment training, while others are used to doing some aerobic training outdoors. Some people like to stick to crawling training at home. So, what are the benefits of regular crawling training to the body?

1. Crawling fitness can distribute the whole body weight to the limbs to reduce the load on various parts of the body, especially the lumbar spine. Therefore, it has a certain effect on preventing and treating lumbar diseases, lumbar muscle strain and various neck, shoulder and spinal diseases.

2. When the human body is upright, the heart has to overcome the influence of gravity of blood in order to promote blood circulation. Moreover, when people exercise upright, the lower limbs are the main active organs, and blood will be distributed more to the lower limbs, while the blood supply to the heart and organs above it will be reduced. In comparison, crawling lowers the position of the heart and the parts above it, which is beneficial to blood circulation throughout the body and has a positive effect on preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases.

3. When crawling, the head often droops, which increases blood flow and effectively improves blood circulation in the brain.

4. Crawling is also good for some other systems in the body:

Crawling can make the body stronger because it is a whole-body coordinated activity that involves the muscles, ligaments, bones and even the nervous system of the entire body.

Crawling benefits bones. Crawling makes bones harder, which can reduce osteoporosis, while making joints more flexible.

Crawling benefits the muscles by making them more tense and elastic, more developed, and able to contract more easily.

Crawling is a good aerobic exercise. When the arms are stretched forward and the diaphragm is pulled apart, a large amount of oxygen is inhaled. When the lower limbs move upward, the diaphragm is compressed, which promotes the lungs to expel a large amount of waste gas.

If you can persist in crawling exercises for a long time, you will reap the above-mentioned benefits, but you must pay attention to persistence. Moreover, because crawling exercises require the head to be lowered, people with serious heart disease or high blood pressure should not engage in such exercises. Also, be sure to do warm-up exercises when exercising, and it is best to have someone supervise you.