Not all people love contrast shower, because of at causing unpleasant sensations and discomfort, but it’s only at first time. Nevertheless, with such kind of shower, you can always shy your body, cleanse and refresh your skin, as well as improve blood circulation.
Moreover, the contrast shower strengthens your immunity, so you will be far less sick.
But first you need to know in more details what exact gives us a contrast shower.
Good spirit and immunity are not the all you can get. The alternation of warm and cold water trains your ligament and blood vessels. It’s like training muscles during sports exercises.
Each time, taking a contrast shower, you clean your skin pores from dirt and improve blood circulation, such way it increases the metabolism in your body that indirectly helps to remove excess weight.
And all this thanks to a contrast shower. Not bad, right?
But why doesn’t everyone like it? This is mainly due to the uncertain. Especially in the cold seasons accustom yourself is not easy, so best to do this summer.
Anyhow, unpleasant feelings accompany only at the beginning. Therefore, force yourself to take such shower at least first 5 times and then everything will be OK.
The whole process looks as follows.
You stand under the shower.
Do pleasantly hot water and stand under a hot shower 10-15 seconds, then turn the cold water and stand under a cold shower for 10-15 seconds. Repeat such three times.
Start always have a shower with hot water and finish with the cold one. Gradually increase the temperature contrast between the hot and cold water.
Start used to the contrast shower gradually. First, for two weeks take a shower of pleasant temperature every day. Then just do only one contrast and don’t stand long under cold water (5-10 sec.). In the future, in a week or two take two or three other contrasts.
Sometimes you can begin to reduce the difference of temperature, that is, take warm and cool water. But be careful in this case. Because, at 20 ° C the protective functions of the body still fail, but you are already starting to become frozen. And as a result, start sick. In such cases, you should make sudden jump in temperature, adding a few seconds of ice water.
Generally, a sharp short-term pouring cold water does not take a lot of heat in the body, but has a powerful effect on the nervous system and launches immune system.
But be careful. If you have bad blood supply, thrombosis, hypertension, vascular spasm, the contrast shower has to be taken with great caution.
If you have blood diseases and cardio-vascular system, malignant tumors, acute thrombophlebitis, the contrast could not take a shower. Generally, in times of increasing any diseases (and women during menstruation) you’d better not take a contrast shower. In other cases, contrast shower is your excellent ally.
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