Morning exercise is the start of the day for the elderly. Morning exercise can awaken the vitality of the day, make people energetic and full of energy. However, the elderly should avoid some misunderstandings in morning exercise, otherwise it will cause harm to the body. Please read on with me.
Benefits of morning exercise for the elderly
1. Awaken the vitality of the day
Morning exercise is done right after waking up. After a whole night of lying in bed, the body is relatively still and dormant. The joints, muscles, and ligaments of the body are stiff and not flexible. After morning exercise, the cells of the body that were sleeping in various parts are awakened, making the originally stiff and dormant body become flexible, and making you refreshed, clear-minded, rejuvenated, and energized for the new day.
2. Beneficial for lung diseases
In morning exercise, the elderly move their arms more, with greater range of motion and stretching. This promotes an increase in lung capacity, and in the process of inhaling and exhaling, it can help clear the old phlegm accumulated in the trachea and lungs.
3. Cleanse the intestines and stomach
Before morning exercise, the elderly can drink a large glass of cold water and then go out for exercise. During exercise, the stretching and swinging movements of the limbs and the twisting movements of the body cause the water to slosh back and forth in the internal organs, which can rinse the stomach and intestines, promote the rapid excretion of feces, and cleanse the stomach and intestines to receive fresh food and absorb new nutrients for the day.
4. Eliminate toxins from the body
During morning exercise, the elderly's blood boils and flows rapidly due to exercise, generating heat energy. The body becomes warm, and the pores all over the body open up, allowing sweat to come out. Some accumulated toxins in the body are discharged through sweat, making the body clean.
Misunderstandings to avoid in morning exercise for the elderly
1. Before sunrise
The carbon dioxide content in the air is higher before sunrise, and the air quality is poor. Therefore, morning exercise should be arranged one hour after sunrise. It is also not advisable to exercise near busy roads or densely wooded areas, as there is a large amount of carbon dioxide gathering there, which is not beneficial to health.
2. Hazy weather
Morning exercise is not suitable in hazy weather, as it contains many harmful substances.
3. On an empty stomach
Morning exercise on an empty stomach can easily cause low blood sugar.
4. 6am to 12pm
The tension of the coronary arteries is high in the morning, and the excitability of the sympathetic nerves is also high. Cardiovascular diseases are most likely to occur from 6am to 12pm in the morning, so it is better to choose afternoon or evening for activities.
[Healthy porridge for the elderly]
1. Seaweed and Cucumber Soup
Take an appropriate amount of seaweed, 100g of cucumber. After soaking the seaweed, add salt, soy sauce, minced ginger, and cucumber slices, boil it, and finally add monosodium glutamate and sesame oil before serving.
2. Hawthorn Carp Soup
Take about 500g of carp, 25g of hawthorn slices, 150g of flour, and one egg. First, wash the carp and cut it into pieces, soak it in yellow wine and salt for 15 minutes. Add an appropriate amount of water and sugar to the flour, beat in the egg and stir into a paste. Soak the fish pieces in the paste, remove and coat with dry flour, fry in oil that has been sautéed with ginger slices for 3 minutes, remove and add hawthorn with a small amount of water, boil it, add a small amount of raw flour to make a thick sauce, pour it over the fried fish pieces, cook for 15 minutes, add green onions and monosodium glutamate, and it is ready to serve.
3. Hawthorn Polygonum Multiflorum Soup
Take 15g of hawthorn and 15g of Polygonum Multiflorum, and 60g of sugar. Wash and chop the hawthorn and Polygonum Multiflorum, put them in a pot, add an appropriate amount of water, soak for two hours, and then simmer for about an hour. Remove the residue and take the soup. Take one dose daily, divided into two doses and taken warm.
4. Hawthorn and Honeysuckle Soup
Take 30g of hawthorn and 6g of honeysuckle, and 20g of sugar. Place the hawthorn and honeysuckle in a spoon, heat it over low heat, add sugar, and then stir-fry it over low heat to make candied hawthorn and honeysuckle. Brew with boiling water and take one dose daily.
