Why is it important to practice martial arts in winter?
Winter is the season of rest and recuperation for everything, and it is also the best time for our body to store energy. In the winter muscle stiffness and tightness of the state, practiced into a loose and soft body. Thus, effectively promote the flow of blood and qi, so that the tendons and bones can be stretched, enhance their immune function, and make the brain response flexible and agile, conducive to improving memory. On the basis of conforming to nature, regulating the mind, cultivating sentiment, eliminating mental fatigue, and effectively enhancing human willpower.
In the cold winter, practicing martial arts can not only enhance physical fitness, but also exercise the strong will of people who are not afraid of the cold. Enhance the body’s ability to adapt to the cold. Due to the whole body strenuously after the activity, breathing deepens, digestion is strengthened, the metabolism is vigorous, improving the physical conditions, the level of health and sports performance will be improved. When we stretch and pull out the bones in the cold wind and practice kung fu in the flying snow, it can effectively drive away the cold making our body’s qi and blood flowing freely and our heart as warm as spring.
So what do you need to be aware of when training kung fu in the winter?
Cold and warmth: Winter martial arts practice both indoors and outdoors should pay attention to cold and warmth. You can drink some warm sugar water, wine or less stimulating drinks in the early morning when practicing martial arts on an empty stomach. This can not only warm the spleen and stomach, promote blood circulation, but also can replenish the body’s rapid heat loss in strenuous activities.
Fresh air: winter practice site should pay attention to choose fresh air, circulation, sheltered from the wind, sunny places. The environment is noisy, dirty air, the temperature is very low location are not suitable for practicing martial arts.
Clothing: How much clothing is appropriate for winter practitioners to wear should be decided according to the degree of cold weather, personal resistance to cold and the amount of exercise they choose to practice. General selection of thermal insulation, lightweight, soft clothes and pants is good. Fat and thin to be appropriate, not too thick and too tight. To be conducive to the whole body muscle relaxation, comfortable, to ensure that the respiratory tract is open, the practitioner should also pay attention to choose to wear good warmth, soft soles, good elasticity, light and fast shoes.
Action degree of gradual: winter cold, in doing martial arts in the kicking and wrestling to take, undulating and turning, scurrying and jumping and tumbling and other actions, we must pay attention to prevent falls, shock injury to the flesh, sinews, organs. The key is no matter what the first thing to practice adequate preparatory activities, so that the whole body muscles, blood vessels, joints, ligaments are able to adapt to the large amount of exercise, and then gradually increase the amount of exercise.
Physical fitness: in winter, we should pay special attention to improve the physical fitness, pay attention to the training of the basic skills, with a clear purpose, strictly according to the plan of training is not only better than blind exercise, and more effective in preventing accidental injuries.
Personal situation: winter cold, short days, practicing martial arts can be flexible to grasp the exercise time and the amount of exercise. Night practice is generally not too strong, if the body is too fatigued, the nerves are too excited, in the rest can not sleep well, it will affect the next day’s work and study.
Exercise volume: how to master the exercise volume of winter martial arts practice should be decided according to the age, gender, physical condition and training level of the practitioner. In winter weather, the amount of exercise practiced outdoors should not be too great, and the phenomenon of profuse sweating should not occur. If it occurs, adjust the amount of exercise in time, and immediately wipe off the sweat on the body when resting and change into dry clothes.