How to relax your muscles?

Many people often experience muscle soreness after strenuous exercise, especially those who do not usually exercise suddenly do a lot of exercise, muscle soreness will still be very obvious. At this time, actively relaxing the muscles is the first thing to do, but how should we do it to relax the muscles? Let me give you a detailed introduction!

After muscle soreness occurs, we can relieve the pain by doing stretching exercises, applying ointments, ice compresses, warm water baths and saunas.

1. Scientifically arrange exercise load according to different physical conditions and health conditions, and don't just try to be strong;

2. When exercising, try to avoid focusing on one part of the body for a long time to avoid overloading the local muscles;

3. Do warm-up exercises before exercise, and pay attention to fully moving the local muscles to be exercised;

4. After exercise, pay attention to general relaxation exercises and focus on muscle stretching exercises.

In addition, don't rush to the bathroom to take a shower right after exercising, as this can easily affect your body's blood circulation and increase the burden on your heart. Steam baths and saunas, in particular, can easily cause dizziness, nausea, and even heart failure if used immediately after training. So do some simple relaxation and stretching exercises after exercise, and be sure to wait for 5-10 minutes until your heart rate is below 120 beats per minute and your body has "cooled down" before taking a shower.

Hot compress: Soak a towel in hot water and place it on the sore muscle area. Change it immediately when the heat is no longer felt. Apply for more than 15 minutes each time, 2-3 times a day. Hot compress can dilate blood vessels in sore muscles, improve blood circulation, relieve muscle spasms, and facilitate the regeneration and repair of damaged tissues.

Electrotherapy: Electroexcitation therapy and intermittent current therapy are mostly used.

There are actually many ways to relax muscles. In addition to those introduced above, if you want to prevent muscle soreness, it is recommended that you exercise regularly. Because people who often suffer from muscle soreness are those who seldom exercise. If you get used to it and exercise every day, muscle soreness will rarely occur.