One action that nourishes the lungs, only 5 seconds, do it every day, and the lungs are getting healthier and healthier
Professor Cheng Kai of the Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine taught and invented a kind oflung and heart exercises, as long as one action, hold for five seconds, both strengthen the lungs and strengthen the heart, the method is as follows: preparation
This action can be done standing or sitting, and the main thing is to be neutral.
Standing position - feet naturally apart, shoulder-width apart, body centered, slightly forward coccygeal bone, naturally tuck the abdomen, eyes ahead.
Orthopedic sitting – The so-called orthodox sitting is half to one-third of the chair with the hips in place, the height of the chair is basically parallel to the thighs and the ground, and the body remains upright, not leaning back or leaning forward. The head is straight, the shoulders are flat, and the chin is slightly closed. 5 seconds – Cardio exercises
Raise your hands up, bend your elbows back, make a fist with your palms up, your fists facing outward, and your elbows at the tips of your armpits.
Try to stretch back, push your arms against your ribs to the limit, and adduct your shoulder blades inward, using the strength of your muscles. Then tilt your head back, lean back to the limit, stop, and hold for 5 seconds. Relax slowly and return to the preparatory position, repeating three to five times.
It's that simple, it strengthens the heart and strengthens the lungs, is it really so amazing? Listen to Professor Cheng Kai explain its function:
1
. Keep your chest up and be happy
The first effect of this movement is to learn to hold our chests up. Chest? yes, are you really going to be a man with your chest up? Playing with mobile phones and looking at computers, but they are all people with their heads bowed. Nestled in the sofa watching TV, the chest is even more unable to straighten, over time, we take the chest as the norm, the chest and head down position will cause our ribs and sternum, bone structure stress changes.
When we hold the chest and bow our head, the force of all the muscles is contracted, and the force on the sternal stem will increase, and a high stress area will be generated here, which will lead to local microcirculation disorders, information transmission disorders, and affect the function of the thymus. This effect is very weak, but if it is persistent, from quantitative to qualitative, it can lead to disease.
In addition, the reason why it is usually said to be "happy" has become synonymous with happiness and pleasure is because when we open the chest, we can stimulate a series of acupuncture points centered on the Renmai acupoint, and these acupuncture points are not only good for the heart, but also make people feel happy and open-minded.
So, it's very important to keep our chests up, our shoulders outstretched, and our chests open.
2
Exercise the muscles in your back
Professor Cheng Kai taught us this small action, mainly to allow us to strengthenthe protective effect of the back on the heart by contracting the muscles inside the shoulder blades. The muscles in front of the two shoulder blades behind our body are called rhomboid muscles, which are divided into large and small rhomboid muscles, and the rhomboid muscles are very thin and deep, and it is difficult for us to stimulate them very rarely. But these two sets of muscles are important for the role of our body.
To use an analogy, it is the backing of the heart, the support of the heart, the front is the chest, the back is the back wall, the muscles of the back wall are its supporting force, if a person's rhomboid muscles are thin, the heart will not be well supported and protected. If the rhomboid muscles are thick and strong, the heart has a backing.
Because we rarely exercise this muscle, the protection of the heart is weak, and this action of shrinking the shoulder blade inward, although simple, is just to exercise the large and small rhomboid muscles. 3
. Alleviate arrhythmia in women
Women, especially older female friends, need to do this action even more. Because many women rarely exercise during the development period, Professor Cheng Kai shook the muscles on his arms and said that boys like to do some tensile exercises and chest expansion exercises during puberty, so they can get exercise from their young rhomboids. Women generally don't do this type of exercise very much, and the rhomboids are rarely exercised. As a result, after women enter menopause, due to bone changes, which leads to changes in muscle attachment force, resulting in muscle groups in the shoulder blades, which are prone to problems, such as arrhythmia.
Therefore, even if there are no organic lesions, elderly women are prone to inexplicable frequent symptoms such as palpitation, sweating, irritability, and dreams, which are functional arrhythmias, or unable to regulate temperature, emotion, and stress responses. Therefore, female friends especially need to do this action frequently.
Therefore, simple small actions are suitable for the elderly, and female elderly friends need to do the most, which is very helpful to the health of elderly women.
Xiaobian tried it when Professor Cheng Kai taught, not to mention, 5 seconds, I was really sweating. Are you so tired?
Professor Cheng Kai explained: "The feeling of sweating is a manifestation of the autonomic nervous system being stimulated and excited. ”
It's a little deep, and Professor Cheng Kai continued: "Because on both sides of our thoracic vertebrae, it is our autonomic nervous system, which autonomously regulates internal functions, such as heartbeat, can you be as fast as you want?" Sweating, do you want to sweat? This part is something you can't control subjectively, and it's called autonomic regulation.
For people who usually often bow their heads with their chests in their hands, or work excessively at the desk, your autonomic nervous system is usually in a state of inhibition, this small action will make our autonomic nervous system excited, as soon as we are excited, our pores are opened, and we sweat, and at this time, our metabolism increases, and the cardiopulmonary function is improved, whether it is corresponding to haze days, or anti-muscle fatigue, trapezius tension, and relieve the fatigue of long-term desk work, these 5-second actions are efficient and simple health care methods.
Professor Cheng Kai suggested that it is best to do it three times in a row, and the effect will be better. Xiaobian immediately practiced, three or five seconds down, suddenly felt clear-headed, refreshed, especially in the process of slow recovery, like overelectricity, a warm current really rushed up, not to mention how comfortable.
Professor Cheng Kai said, "Your reaction is still small, and some elderly friends will even feel their eyes light up after doing it, and ask me: 'Are you turning on the lights?' Why are my eyes bright? ’” Why don't you try it and see how it goes?
