Summer fitness, beware of heat stroke

Summer temperature is higher, the body's heat is relatively difficult, sweating it more.

In the ambient temperature exceeds 30 ° c and above, a notable increase in the activities of human sweat, summer sports and fitness activities in the prevention of heat stroke.

Perspiration is a normal physiological activity, but due to sweating can lose large amounts of water and sodium, potassium, calcium, plasma, therefore, sweating and not supplement the liquid in a timely manner, can cause blood concentration and ion balance disorders, in which case the body's ability to exercise a significant drop, muscle weakness, whole body limp, dizziness, serious can appear PONV and even coma and other symptoms, chronic cardiovascular system exists for pathological changes in patients with more serious consequences.

Summer physical activity you can select the early morning when the Sun is down or the evening, not in direct sunlight environment fitness activities.

In humidity larger environment, the evaporation of sweat is not easy, the heat is difficult, sweating increased, if you make physical activity more susceptible to heat stroke. Summer fitness strength appropriate to reduce the duration of the appropriate control, or intermittent fitness activities, is not a sport for a long time.

Fitness activities that use the appropriate drink.

Since sweat contains various ion, cannot only drinking water. You can yourself prepare sports drinks, 1000 ml of boiling water into 6 grams of salt, 20 g-40 g of glucose (diabetes can rarely with or without sugar). Mung bean soup, pumpkin soup is also very good ways to beat the quench your thirst.

The drinking water during exercise has on several occasions, to a small number, not a drink lots of water, do not wait for thirsty to drink water.

Beverage temperature to appropriate, should not be too low, the campaign taboo immediately drink ice water or eating cold drinks. Exercise and diet in appropriate increase of dark green leafy vegetables, drink more vegetable soup.

(Practice editing: Tran Hung Wong)