How long after yoga should I take a shower?

Yoga is a kind of gymnastics with very good health-preserving effects and is very popular all over the world. Yoga is mainly suitable for women to practice because women's body structure makes it easier to do yoga. Therefore, most people who practice yoga in life are women. Although yoga is a type of gymnastics with very slow movements, it still requires a lot of energy to complete the entire set of movements, and you need to take a shower after practicing to wash away the sweat. Let’s take a look at how long it is best to take a shower after yoga.

It is best to take a shower half an hour later, because the body has fully recovered at this time, and the heart rate and blood circulation have returned to normal. Only by taking a shower can you exercise and maintain hygiene at the same time.

Taking a shower right after practicing yoga will not only greatly reduce the effectiveness of the practice, but also cause unnecessary damage to the body. When you just finish exercising, your body is often in a state of extreme excitement. If you take a hot bath immediately at this time, your blood vessels will expand rapidly, blood will flow back to the brain, increasing the pressure on your heart. In addition, the stimulation of alternating hot and cold temperatures will harm your body.

It is generally recommended that practitioners, especially those with arthritis, take a bath before practicing and then rest for 20 minutes to half an hour. This can increase the body's feeling of cleanliness and relaxation, increase body temperature, reduce muscle tension, help stretch the body, and open the joints. Those who practice right after getting up early in the morning do not need to take a shower before practicing.

Tips for practicing yoga:

1. Avoid greasy and spicy food. You should not eat staple food at least 3 hours before exercise, and it is more scientific to eat half an hour after exercise.

2. Try to finish defecating and urinating before practicing. Take a shower at least 15 minutes after practicing yoga.

3. When doing the upside-down posture with the upper body facing down, patients with high blood pressure, low blood pressure, head injuries, dizziness, heart failure, and women who are menstruating should not do it to avoid discomfort due to congestion in the head.

4. There is no need to worry about your muscles being too stiff to endure difficult postures. In fact, as long as you follow the teacher's practice procedures and cooperate with the breathing and stretching techniques taught by the teacher, and do your best, then go with the flow and progress slowly is the best practice.