Best Time To Shower After Workout

After an intense workout session, the first thing a person would like to do is to freshen up. Person wants to get rid of the sweat and relax the muscles. Taking a quick shower appears to be a good idea, but showering right after a workout would do more harm than good.

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Understand bathing in itself is an activity, it is like an exercise and this can put more strain on your body after workout, let me tell you some dos and donts for showering after workouts. 

1. Have a Recovery Time Before Going for Shower

It is very important to follow a recovery, cooling down time, specially which is less vigorous. Following this, this would help your body to return to its resting stage. Understand first sit quietly, comfortably in  some corner or under a tree, gently close your eyes and observe your breathing to calm yourself. This will regulate your heart rate and your body temperature, take a shower after 15-20 minutes once your mind is calm and relaxed.

2. Shower Taken With Cold Water or Hot Water

There is always a confusion in people that should they bathe with hot water or cold water after intense workout. Lets talk about both in detail and then understand which one to choose. Cold showers are most effective then hot showers for a complete recovery. 

After an exercise the cold water shower helps constricting the blood flow, it lowers the inflammation and stiffens the muscles and joints. It is not only tightens the skin but constricts the hair cuticles strengthening the follicles. Hot waterusually dries the inner layer of the skin, this inner layer provides moisture and provides protection to body and hair. 

After sweating a cold shower will help restore your skins natural moisture barrier and this would prevent dryness of the skin, cold water is beneficial to your immune system too, cold water helps to increase the number of white blood cells in your body, your body's immune system is protected because of these blood cells.

3. Bathing Naturally Exfoliates

Bathing is an essential aspect in personal hygiene. Use a cloth scrub to exfoliate the dead cells which clog the pores of the skin. Sweat excess oil bacterias and dirt of the skin, it also helps in removal of lactic acid which is produced in your muscles during  strenuous activities.

Understand, sea salt is a very natural and very effective alternative for exfoliation and remove pollutants that clog the pores. To relieve aching muscles add a handful of sea salt to your bathing water. You can soak yourself in this salted water or you can pour the water on your body, it really helps in better circulation and balancing the skins natural oil. 

Dont switch from hot to cold or cold to hot immediately, this might affect your muscles, nerves and blood pressure. If you are not habituated to have cold water on your body, take a little bit of lukewarm water and then end your shower with cold water that you will be able to manage and such thing will allow your body to cool down. This would enhance bloodflow, reduce muscular stiffness and also protect body moisture.

Bathing is something that is so pleasing and so much useful that person should never forget to take a bath. How so ever busy you are, taking bath is a must. That we all know, that is our good habitual. So take bath properly, when to take bath, how to take bath, all this is very important because bathing itself is so important. 

So try and use a scrubber and rub your body with warm water first and then you can add cold water on your body. That is the best way to really clean your skin, retain the moisture of your skin and remove the stiffness of your body.

Understand bathing is not just a physical activity, water has an element which helps person to clean out, to remove unwanted things from the system. So at body level it is cleaning the dirt and removing what is not required, but at mind level also. Water works wonder, bathing works wonder, mind is definitely more calmer, more positive and more ready to face the challenges of life, so take charge of yourself and have a nice bath.

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