Stretching your waist seems to be a very simple action, but it is actually a self-exercise method to stretch your waist, move your muscles and bones, and relax your spine.

What are the health benefits of stretching your waist?

→ When yawning, you need to exhale and inhale a lot, which can not only increase oxygen intake, exhale more carbon dioxide, but also promote the body's metabolism;

→ In the process of lifting the arm, it will have a squeezing effect on the thoracic organs, which is conducive to the full relaxation of the heart and has the effect of maintaining the heart;

→ Leaning back is conducive to the smooth blood vessels to deliver blood to the brain, so that the brain can get sufficient nutrients, thereby eliminating fatigue and invigorating the spirit;

→ Waist forward can stretch the waist, move the muscles and bones, and relax the spine to prevent lumbar muscle strain and correct excessive curvature of the spine in time.

Don't underestimate these short-term changes, it can give your high-speed brain a full rest, so that stress and fatigue can be released, even if it is just a few minutes, the whole person can be as motivated as a full tank of gas. In your busy work and study life, you might as well try to stretch your waist to make you "resurrected".

In addition, what other conditions are suitable for stretching?

　　Learn to stretch the waist of the cat and cure back pain

Many elderly people have back pain, and some people who work at the desk for a long time or drive for a long time are also prone to back pain, and even have problems such as intervertebral disc herniation.

Through the gentle and orderly S-shaped movement of the spine, the waist stretches to strengthen the back muscles and fascia, open the life acupoints, and penetrate the Du Pulse, which can prevent and treat neck stiffness, shoulder and back pain, kidney deficiency, low back pain, spinal stiffness and other lesions, strengthen the function of internal organs, and improve the function of the nervous system.

Method: Sitting, or standing, the lower limbs are not limited, the left palm is inside, the right palm is outside, the two palms are crossed, the palms are in front of the abdomen, from the bottom to the top to the chest, and then from the front of the body to the outside, at the same time, the lumbar spine does S-shaped peristaltic elastic contraction, driving the two palms to push forward, looking forward. Then retract the abdomen with both hands, and practice repeatedly, generally 10 times for 1 group, do 5-6 sets.

Key points: This action is not difficult, much like a cat stretching the waist, mainly practicing the S-shaped peristaltic stretching of the lumbar spine, to fully embody (if standing by the feet) each spinal joint and from the spine movement to the fingers of the joints through, the palm from the flat palm (palm down) to the final vertical palm, the vertical palm to the palm root as the force point to push. Feel comfortable in the back, preferably with a fever.

This action turned out to be the practice of Tai Chi boxing "chest containment" technique, when the opponent strongly pushes the chest, you can hold the chest to induce, so that the force point of the attack is staggered, and at the same time the two arms are connected at the opponent's elbow joint, and then under the peristalsis of the lumbar spine, you can pick up the opponent, and then push the opponent back.

　　Wake up early and stretch and wake up quickly

Whenever they are woken up from a sound sleep by an alarm clock in the morning, people are used to lying in bed for a while longer, and they will fall asleep again if they are not paying attention. In fact, during this time of lying in bed, you can stretch your waist, and you can wake up your body and recover your strength in a few minutes.

After a night of sleep, blood circulation slows down, breathing weakens, and the supply of blood and oxygen is inadequate. The action of stretching the waist can stretch the body, expand the chest, accelerate blood circulation, promote oxygen supply, which is conducive to the contraction of muscles and the deepening of breathing throughout the body, and is also beneficial to accelerating wakefulness.

Method: Lie flat, relax your body, cross your fingers, place your palms up on top of your head, and alternately straighten and hook your toes. While stretching your limbs, turn your body to the left and right for about 30 seconds.