Perhaps the most popular and well-known type of hardening is hardening with cold water. It's no secret that any hardening involves training immunity: if he regularly has to mobilize his powers, he can do it better during epidemics.
Use of hardening
In fact, hardening and health are inseparably linked, because such procedures lead not only to strengthening the body's defenses, but also to many other beneficial effects.
For example, people who are hardened, almost never experience discomfort during acclimatization or changing weather, the indicators of their body are usually stable. If you have problems with working capacity - try hardening, it perfectly promotes concentration on anything.
Surprisingly, tempering affects both the nervous system and the emotional sphere of life. Man not only becomes more calm, tolerant, restrained and pleasant in communication, but also as a whole begins to perceive information in a balanced manner, without emotional jumps. In addition, the procedures are invigorating and contribute to a calm, joyful mood.
Principles of hardening
If you immediately start the practice without getting acquainted with the basics of hardening, you can harm your body. Before starting the procedures, please note the following rules:
- Increase the intensity gradually, and do not start immediately with icy water;
- The procedure for hardening is not a one-time operation; one has to deal with this stably several times a week;
- consider your own characteristics, do not go through force;
- use not one, but different ways of hardening for the best result;
- do not practice hardening at the following conditions: bleeding, mental disorders, fever, severe trauma, circulatory failure, hypertensive crisis, asthma attack, colic, extensive burns, food poisoning.
If you follow these recommendations, hardening with cold water will not do you harm and will not cause a cold.
Methods of hardening
The very method of hardening suggests that you will perform 2-3 procedures a week - dousing, wiping, or foot baths. All this can be done at home all year round. Let's consider such systems of hardening more:
- Wiping . Moisten a terry towel in the body's water temperature, wring out and sequentially wipe the entire body, and then rub the body with a dry towel. Once in 3 days, lower the water temperature by 1-2 ° C, reach 2-3 ° C in 2-3 months. Strengthen the effect of wiping in a ventilated room or with an open window.
- Tempering the feet . During the year, before going to bed, feet should be washed with water, starting from 28-25 ° C, once a month reducing the rate by a degree, to reach the end of the year to 15-14 ° C. After the procedure, you need to rub the foot with a towel.
- Pouring water . This method is not for beginners, and it is necessary to start it only after a couple of months of rubbing. Start with water at room temperature and reach 12 ° C, reducing
the temperature is 1-2 ° C per month. After the procedure, you should rub the body with a towel or do self-massage. - Cold shower . It is carried out similarly, the temperature for a year decreases from 36-34 to 16-14 ° С.
- Contrast shower . Ideal after physical exertion. Increase the temperature difference gradually, once a month: 36 and 32 ° C, then 37 and 30 ° C, then 38 and 27 ° C and so on. It is necessary to reach a difference of 15-20 ° C.
Such methods of hardening are suitable for beginners, professionals, children and adults alike. The main conditions are gradualness and regularity.