What should I do if my limbs become weak after strenuous exercise?

Exercise can help us relieve stress in life and work, help improve people's sub-health status, and is also good for weight loss. Therefore, exercise is becoming more and more popular among people, and many people will set aside time for exercise in their busy schedules. However, many exercisers will be very distressed. Why do they feel weak in their limbs when they should be full of energy after exercise? This requires us to pay close attention to what we should and should not do after exercise.

1. Don’t squat to rest

This is a very common practice. When you feel tired after exercise, you squat or sit down thinking that you can save energy and rest. In fact, this is a wrong practice. If you squat down to rest immediately after fitness exercise, it will hinder the blood return to the lower limbs, affect blood circulation, deepen muscle fatigue, and in severe cases cause gravity shock.

Therefore, after each exercise, you should adjust your breathing rhythm and do some low-calorie activities, such as slow walking, doing some relaxing gymnastics, or simply taking deep breaths, to promote blood flow from the limbs to the heart, speed up physical recovery and eliminate fatigue. If you really feel exhausted, you can ask a companion to help you walk.

2. Don’t be greedy for cold drinks

Exercise often makes people sweat profusely, especially in summer. With the consumption of a large amount of water, people always feel dry mouth and urgent need to drink water after exercise. Most of them are young people, and most of them like to buy some cold drinks to cool off and quench their thirst. However, the human digestive system is still in a suppressed state and the digestive function is low. If you drink a lot of cold drinks in order to cool down and quench your thirst, it can easily cause gastrointestinal cramps, abdominal pain, diarrhea, and induce gastrointestinal diseases. Therefore, do not drink a lot of cold drinks immediately after exercise. It is appropriate to replenish a small amount of boiled water or salt water at this time.

3. Don’t eat right away

During exercise, especially intense exercise, the motor nerve center is in a highly excited state. Under its influence, the parasympathetic nervous system that manages the activities of internal organs strengthens the inhibition of digestive system activities. At the same time, during exercise, blood throughout the body is redistributed and supplied more concentratedly to the needs of the motor organs, while the supply to the organs in the abdominal cavity is relatively reduced. The above factors weaken the motility of the gastrointestinal tract and greatly reduce the secretion of various digestive glands. It takes 20-30 minutes after exercise to recover. If you eat in a hurry, it will increase the burden on the digestive organs, cause functional disorders, and even cause various diseases.

These are things that should not be done after exercise, so everyone must be vigilant and never do such things after exercise. Not only is it not good for our body, but it will harm our body in the long run. So exercise is a good thing, but knowing how to exercise healthily is a lesson we must learn.