Winter swimming precautions

Most people used to hear or see winter swimming less often, but in recent years, with the rise of fitness fever, winter swimming is also more and more people, and is also considered a strong and healthy exercise. In the cold water swimming safety is the most worrying, then winter swimming to pay attention to what?

Pay attention to body changes

Pay attention to your body changes, especially some latent diseases and risk factors should be alerted as early as possible. Winter swimming should be stopped immediately during illness or physical discomfort, even if it is a slight cold. Suffering from heart disease, high blood pressure. Diseases such as skin diseases should not be used for winter swimming. Do not swim on an empty stomach or when you are full. Do not drink alcohol before and after winter swimming.

Seek medical attention when you feel sick

After winter swimming, especially on the second day, if you have adverse reactions such as rapid heartbeat, irregular heart rate, headache, loss of appetite, nausea, etc., you should stop winter swimming immediately and go to the hospital to ask a doctor for diagnosis and treatment, and continue winter swimming after recovering to normal.

Don't winter swim during menstruation

Women should not winter swimming during menstruation, it is better to stop winter swimming exercise 1-2 days before menstruation, and the amount of exercise should be smaller than usual 2-3 days after menstruation, and then gradually return to normal amount of exercise.

Don't winter swim when you are in a bad mood

If you encounter some negative social stressful events, such as illness of relatives or death, you should not swim in winter. Marriage change or natural disasters, car accidents, etc., because people are already in a state of stress, their immune function and ability to adapt to the environment will be greatly reduced. The presence of two stress sources at the same time will aggravate a person's stress reaction. If winter swimming is carried out at this time, it is not only not good for fitness, but also harmful.

Reasonable arrangement of winter swimming process

When winter swimming in rivers and lakes, you should choose the place where it is easy to get into the water and easy to start the water. Generally speaking, you should swim in the direction of backwater first and return to the water. This is safer. To carry out winter swimming exercise, generally there should be a fixed time, such as arranging morning, morning, noon or afternoon, so that the body's thermoregulatory function can establish a time conditioned reflex.

Warm up sufficiently before winter swimming

Before going into the water, you should do sufficient preparation activities. Generally, it is required to make the body hot but not sweating. Before entering the water, dip your limbs in the water, and then pat your chest and forehead with cold water to make your body adapt to the stimulation of cold water.

Be careful before entering the water

In the cold northern winter swimming, choose a place with slow flow under the ice. When you enter the water, don't jump hard to prevent the ice from cutting your skin. Don't dive after entering the water either, to avoid flowing under the ice.

Keep warm in time after winter swimming

After going ashore for winter swimming, dry your body quickly with a soft dry towel, put on your clothes and pay attention to keeping warm. You should choose a place to avoid wind to reduce heat loss and prevent frostbite.