Top 10 Benefits You Wouldn’t Expect from Practicing Tai Chi Sweat

During the summer, sweating can cause our sunscreen to fail and our makeup to become smudged and uncomfortable. This is especially true for people who practice Tai Chi. The smell that comes with sweating can be embarrassing.

Therefore, many people want to avoid sweating, stay in an air-conditioned room, blowing fan, with antiperspirant lotion …… In fact, the sweat glands are the body’s own “air conditioning”, often stay indoors without sweating, the sweat glands will become small, there is no sweat out, will make people feel hot and tired! The first thing you need to do is to get rid of the sweat glands.

Sweating in summer can be described as an opportunity to nourish your body in accordance with nature. And practicing Tai Chi and sweating is an excellent way to maintain health.

However, sweating is also a discipline, but also pay attention to the method, by the hot sun sweating, in the sauna room steamed to sweat, are not as good as in the taijiquan hall sweating.

Because, whether it is the heat of the sweat, or sauna steam out of the sweat, are only in the superficial layer of the human body sweating, while practicing tai chi sweat, is the real deep surface layer of the sweat, so that people sweat from the inside out.

Therefore, every time you practice Tai Chi, sweat, you will feel relaxed and happy. Long-term persistence,

There will also be these top ten benefits that you can not expect:

• Accelerates the circulation of body fluids

More than 99% of the composition of sweat is water, can clean the pores, while discharging some metabolic waste, such as urea, ammonia, lactic acid. Therefore, the sweat glands are also known as the human body “second kidney”, often let yourself sweat, you can relieve the metabolic burden of the kidneys to a certain extent.

• Skin Care & Beauty

Normal human skin surface sweat and sebaceous glands secretion to the body surface of the oil will form a layer of emulsified film, preventing the loss of water on the surface of the body, thus making the skin look smooth and moisturized. People who do not sweat, because the skin metabolism is slow, some of the waste is difficult to discharge, the complexion looks unhealthy.

• Maintaining Body Shape

When the human body practices Tai Chi and reaches a certain level of intensity, fat will be burned and converted into heat, which will be discharged from the body through sweat. Tai Chi not only burns fat to achieve the purpose of weight loss and fitness, but also improves the temperament and gives people the beauty of an upright and elegant body.

• Relieve Anxiety and Tension

Taijiquan is a kind of practice that can relieve neuromuscular tension by practicing stillness in movement and movement in stillness. According to experts’ determination, when irritability and anxiety come to mind, jumping at a brisk pace for about 15 minutes and breaking a sweat can relieve tension and stabilize mood.

• Promote digestion, sleep

People who don’t sweat have slow qi and blood operation, which will affect digestion and cause people to eat poorly, and nerve activity will also be affected as a result, causing people to sleep poorly at night. Taijiquan can enhance the secretion function of the digestive glands, promote regular peristalsis of the stomach and intestines, increase appetite, regulate nerve activity and promote sleep at night.

• Memory Enhancement

The United States for 20,000 secondary school students in a long-term education experiment shows that active sweating students, memory, concentration can be substantially improved. Often follow the breath stretching body, brain thinking activities become clear, flexible, can effectively eliminate brain fatigue, improve learning and work efficiency.

• Improve immunity

From the Western medical point of view, the physiological function of sweating is used to “regulate body temperature”, because after sweating, the skin temperature can be reduced by an average of about 4 degrees Celsius, which can be described as the body’s own “air conditioning”. Sweat glands become small the most direct harm is the adaptability to the temperature difference is reduced, it is easy to catch a cold at once, resulting in low immunity.

• Control blood pressure and blood fat

Hypertension is a phenomenon that occurs due to the narrowing and hardening of the inner diameter of blood vessels and the restriction of blood flow per unit. Sweating from practicing Tai Chi expands the capillaries, accelerates blood circulation, increases the elasticity of blood vessel walls, and achieves the purpose of lowering blood pressure. Long-term practice of Tai Chi is conducive to lowering blood lipid content through weight loss, thus achieving fundamental stabilization of blood pressure.

• Prevention of various diseases

People who practice Tai Chi 3 times a week for more than 1 hour each time have enhanced muscle emergency and coordination, and their bone density and strength are significantly higher than those of the same age, young or old, and very few of them suffer from bone fracture after falling. In addition, practicing Tai Chi sweating can also effectively prevent cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer and other diseases.

• Make men more attractive

Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University in the United States say that the odor of men sweating can put women in a good mood and make them feel mentally relaxed. Men who practice tai chi not only have a screaming good physique, but they also have a mesmerizing masculine scent flowing through their bodies – masculine flavor, spirited passion, and elegance.

Taiji sweating “characteristics” and precautions!

• Taijiquan exercises are gentle and slow, and sweating is the main feature of taijiquan. Compared with the intense type of sweating, taijiquan’s light sweating can better maintain a calm heart rate, effectively excrete salt from the body and retain calcium in the bones. On the psychological level, it helps to calm the mind, and the effect is far beyond mere physical exercise.
• Playing tai chi chills the body without shortness of breath. Many people are out of breath when they run or climb mountains, and they are even more out of breath when they are sweating profusely from practicing. However, playing tai chi is different, through regular self-regulation, so that the body’s yin and yang tend to be balanced, even if the exercise is large, sweaty, but also will not gasp, shortness of breath.

Some scientific researches have proved that the microcirculation of the human body is accelerated progressively when playing taijiquan, and the improvement of physiological functions is also very different from that of miniature sports. In international competitive sports programs, there have been cases of world top athletes dying suddenly on the field. Because of its extraordinary play, it makes the internal organs burdened and damaged.

• There are rules about sweating when playing taijiquan. When practicing taijiquan, which part of the sweat, sweat through the sweat, it shows which part of the qi and blood smooth, sweat pores open, the evil put away, toxins (body accumulation of lactic acid, urea, ammonia, etc.) excluded. Practicing taijiquan without panting though sweating indicates that you have reached the amount of exercise and are in an aerobic state. With the progress of practicing taijiquan, the movements around the body become more and more coordinated, and the sweat also changes from sticky to thin, from salty to light, which is the process of improving the quality of blood circulation and detoxification in the body.

Practicing taijiquan does not advocate sweating a lot, if the essentials are correct, after practicing, the body should be slightly warm and have a feeling of penetration. If after years of practicing taijiquan, you are still sweating profusely, and the amount of sweating is not reduced at all, you may have a physical problem or you may not be able to practice taijiquan in the right way or in the right way.

With the different levels of practicing qi, the effect of sweating is not the same, and the parts of the body that sweat, how much, and the taste are not the same. In the primary stage of exercising qi, sweating is in the large part of the body, and it is difficult for unhealthy people to cross this stage. Even if you are a Taiji master, if you are not feeling well, the sweat should still come out. In the intermediate stage, the back sweats more, and other parts of the body sweat less and less. This level is the advanced stage of health maintenance, the body is light, full of energy, deep and less sleep, easy to fall asleep, no insomnia, and in terms of techniques, it is towards the development of lightness like the chemical Fang Shang. In the advanced stage, there is a lot of sweat on the hands and feet, but no sweat on other parts of the body. This is a high level, which is unlikely to be reached without long-term practice.

Because taijiquan has many irreplaceable advantages of other forms of exercise, it is the fastest growing traditional martial art in China. Not only national practice, many foreign friends also practice, more and more people realize that it is the “passport” to health. And the realm of a person’s boxing sweat, in fact, can be roughly seen his / her boxing level and realm.

Practicing taijiquan sweating, these one must pay attention to!

• Practice boxing should adhere to the principle of moderate sweating. Moderate sweating, can regulate body temperature, excretion of waste, drive away the evil; and excessive sweating, it will consume fluid, and in the long run, the yin and yang are damaged, resulting in easy fatigue, resistance to decline, and thus a variety of diseases.
• Sweating does not fully represent the effect of exercise, if you wear a sweat suit in boxing this kind of breathable clothes to increase sweating, it is simply self-inflicted injury. So boxing to wear loose, soft, breathable clothing is better.
• After practicing boxing sweat, can not use cool water to wash, cold wind blowing, but should know the method of guarding sweat. After sweating, you should use a dry towel to wipe the sweat, not to be greedy for cool water to wash, not to use the fan to blow. Sweat pores open, such as sudden cold closed, sweat turbid residual toxicity will accumulate in the subcutaneous, long time will be sick. Sweat to keep sweat, not only do not take off your clothes, but to put on clothes, to wait until the whole body sweat from drying and then hot water towel to scrub the body. This is the method of keeping sweat.

Sweat a lot of water loss, should be timely rehydration, the best supplemental salt water. But if a lot of water immediately easy to become sick. The better way is: in the morning before practicing boxing, drink a cup of cold boiled water prepared the night before, to make up for the night’s body water loss; before practicing boxing in the evening, you should also drink a cup of warm boiled water; each time after practicing kung fu sweating, it is not appropriate to drink water right away, and then a small amount of sweat after drying up half a cup to a cup of water is appropriate.