What are the advantages of mountaineering?

Many friends particularly like mountain climbing. The moment they reach the top of the mountain is the happiest time. They will have a feeling of conquering nature. In fact, mountain climbing is also a sport that is particularly beneficial to the body and mind. It not only exercises the body and will, but also has many benefits for us. However, mountain climbing also has disadvantages, that is, it is too time-consuming and laborious. Let’s take a look at the advantages of mountain climbing.

(1) Mountain climbing is good for your mind and skin.

Mountaineering helps to fully absorb the negative electrons of the mountains, reduce excessive positive charges and static electricity in the human body, and maintain abundant energy and a relaxed physical state. It also helps the human body to receive normal sunlight and ultraviolet rays and convert VD into calcium, thus enhancing the skin's toughness and antibacterial ability.

(2) Mountain climbing helps improve the regulatory function of the nervous system and enhances the nervous system's ability to judge and respond to the complex changes in human activities.

Climbing mountains and looking into the distance is the simplest way to improve eyesight and treat myopia. Looking into the distance can relax the fatigue of eye muscles. The irregularity of the mountains prompts the nervous system to make coordinated, accurate and rapid responses in a timely manner, enabling the human body to adapt to changes in the internal and external environment. Maintaining the normal operation of the body's vital activities also helps prevent senile dementia. Mountain climbing is also beneficial to improving sleep quality and regulating the nervous function that balances excitement and inhibition.

(3) Mountaineering helps the growth and toughness of bones and muscles, and enhances athletic function and physical fitness.

Compared with the asphalt roads in the city, mountain roads are bumpy and uneven. Walking through them is beneficial to improving the body's balance function and enhancing the coordination of the limbs. Especially walking on non-step sections that have not been artificially modified can make the body's muscle fibers thicker, the muscles developed, and the limb flexibility enhanced. When climbing, your arms swing, and the joints and muscles of your waist, back, and neck are constantly moving, which can cause adaptive changes over time. The feet are the roots of the human body. Climbing mountains regularly can enhance the strength of the lower limbs, improve joint flexibility, promote venous blood return in the lower limbs, prevent varicose veins, osteoporosis, muscle atrophy and other diseases, and can effectively stimulate the six meridians of the lower limbs and many acupoints on the soles of the feet, making the meridians unobstructed and enhancing the body's ability to adapt to the environment.

(4) Climbing mountains helps the body’s metabolism, expel waste and take in new energy, and burn excess fat.

According to scientific analysis, sugar metabolism in people's daily bodies is aerobic metabolism. Mountaineering activities, especially climbing high mountains, require the human body to switch to anaerobic metabolism due to the thin air. In addition, the amount of exercise required in mountaineering is large, so a picnic in the mountains is often unable to meet the body's calorie needs. Therefore, it can consume a large amount of fat tissue accumulated in the human body, especially the fat tissue in the waist and abdomen, enhance the body's energy metabolism, and improve the function of the digestive system.

(5) Mountain climbing helps to enhance cardiopulmonary function and improve blood circulation and respiratory system.

Relevant data show that the unit content of negative oxygen ions in urban living rooms is only 100 to 300, while in mountain forests it can reach 10,000 to 30,000. Harmful substances such as free radicals produced during the normal metabolism of the human body can damage human cell membranes, dissolve normal human cells, and cause aging and even mutation of human tissues. In addition, due to factors such as industrial pollution and urban heat island effect in cities, there are more suspended particles in the air and the breathing quality is poor. The high oxygen negative ions in outdoor mountains and waters can effectively bind to free radicals and expel them out of the body.

The above is an introduction to the advantages of mountaineering. We can see that mountaineering will not only improve our physical fitness, but also play a role in treating and regulating our body functions. In particular, it is a particularly good exercise for our perseverance. However, when climbing, we must not only pay attention to safety, but also pay attention to the climate.