Female body care methods

The core of female body care has never been to pursue standardized aesthetic templates such as "right-angled shoulders, ant waist, and straight back". Rather, under the premise of health, maintaining balanced muscle tension, keeping bones in physiological alignment, and stabilizing basal metabolism, and ultimately achieving a state of stretch and comfort that fits one's own skeletal conditions. All "shaping" that is divorced from health is essentially a waste of the body.

I just met a girl who was born in 1998. In order to develop right-angled shoulders, she hung the horizontal bar at home every day. She also followed online tutorials to do shoulder-sinking training. After practicing for half a month, her shoulder hurt so much that she couldn't lift it up. She went to the hospital to find out that it was acromion impingement. She even had to have help getting dressed. It took almost two months to get better. To put it bluntly, she didn't understand the essence of body care, and she was trying to create her own body based on aesthetic templates.

To be honest, I have come into contact with anywhere from 100 to 80 body-related practitioners. People in different fields have quite different ideas about maintenance. There is no need to stick to a certain method. Friends who are fitness coaches always say that muscles are the best "body support". Muscles are like elastic bands of the body. If some places are too tight and some are too loose, the skeleton will naturally be stretched and the posture will not look good. This does make sense. Many mothers around me who have given birth did not deliberately diet to lose weight. They only did resistance training three times a week to strengthen their core and buttocks. After three months, their entire bodies became tighter. Even the width of their fake hips, which had been severely slumped before, was restored. They looked better in clothes than if they had lost ten pounds.

But my friend who practices traditional Chinese medicine does not agree with the statement that "strength training is the only solution." She often says that many little girls have weak Qi and blood, and they can't even climb the third floor without breathing. If you ask her to pound iron and run laps every day, you are essentially overdrafting her body's foundation. According to traditional Chinese medicine, "the spleen governs the muscles." If your spleen and stomach are deficient in qi and blood, your muscles will be weak and naturally unable to support the skeleton. The chest will be hunched over, and in severe cases, the hips will be wide and the buttocks will sag. In this case, regulating qi and blood first is better than anything else. She had previously received a girl who weighed less than 90 pounds. She was really thin, but her breasts were so hunched that she could walk unsteadily. She went to the gym for three months and it didn't improve. Later, she prescribed some spleen-strengthening food and asked the girl to rub her abdomen for 10 minutes before going to bed every day. She also tried to wear high heels as little as possible when going out. After two months, the girl's back naturally straightened up, and even her complexion changed from sallow to pink.

Friends who are in recovery don’t take sides, they just always say, “You guys think about spending a lot of money to get a card and go to class every day, so why don’t you change your daily bad habits? ”This statement really hits a lot of people’s pain points: if you sit with your legs crossed for 8 hours a day, your pelvis will already be tilted, and no matter how you train, your buttocks will become bigger on one side and smaller on the other. ； You lower your head every day while browsing your mobile phone, and your cervical vertebrae are tilted almost 10 degrees. Once a week, you go to a physical fitness class and ask the teacher to stretch your shoulders and back, and then you go back and lie down on the sofa to browse your mobile phone. It would be surprising if this works. He always makes a very simple request to his patients: sit only in the front third of the chair, not on the back, and raise the phone to eye level. These two small actions can solve 80% of the posture problems caused by sitting for a long time, which is much more effective than spending tens of thousands of yuan on personal training.

Speaking of this, some people must want to ask, are those quick fix methods that are popular on the Internet effective? Such as waist corseting and bone setting? To be honest, I've tried it myself. The corset did make my waist two centimeters thinner just after I put it on, but it made me breathless. I couldn't hold my breath even after two mouthfuls of food. I had acid reflux after wearing it for a week. I went to the doctor and said that long-term wearing will cause the core muscles to degenerate, and it will make my stomach more loose. It's a complete poison to quench my thirst. In terms of bone setting, I had a lumbar facet joint disorder due to long-term sitting. After the reduction, my waist no longer hurts and my back can be straightened. However, the rehabilitation doctor specifically told me that if I still sit paralyzed every day, I will go back to work in half a month at most. Frequent bone setting will make the ligaments loose and make it easier to dislocate. It is not a once and for all method.

Oh, by the way, there is another pitfall that many people have stepped on, which is to deliberately tighten your posture. A few years ago, when I first came into contact with physical fitness, I was always asked by the teacher to raise my head, straighten my chest, draw in my stomach, and pinch my buttocks. My shoulders were so sore at the end of the day, and my waist hurt. I went back to lie down for a long time before I recovered. Later I realized that a truly comfortable posture is relaxed. When you stand, your center of gravity is in the middle of your feet, and your shoulders naturally sink.

In order to take good-looking photos two years ago, I also starved for half a month and lost 8 pounds. I was able to fit into a skirt one size smaller at that time, but I had no energy. I felt tired after standing for a long time, and my back was unconsciously hunched. I deliberately dieted and took time to go to yoga classes twice a week. When I had nothing to do, I would make some five-red soup and drink it. I didn’t force myself to have any waistline. Now I weigh 6 pounds heavier than I did then. People around me said that my figure is much better than before, and my clothes are more stylish.

In fact, there is really no unified standard answer when it comes to body maintenance. If you like to move, go and practice strength yoga. If you are too lazy to move, adjust your energy and blood first and change your daily bad habits. You don’t have to force yourself to become a standard template on the Internet. If you are comfortable, healthy, and standing there naturally stretched, that is the best form.