How to become a "walrus": hardening for dummies

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

As you know, hardened people live longer, get sick less and look younger. The author of "Cleo" Victoria Yakimchuk recently had good reasons to join them, and she spoke in detail about each of her steps on the path to hardening.

I work hard and my life is eventful. Perhaps the lack of vitamins affected, or the body simply needed rest, but my body weakened: I began to get sick often and I grabbed any virus. I had to do something, and I decided to temper …

Step 1: air baths

I started with the simplest hardening method - taking air baths. Or rather, from jogging. So I combined business with pleasure: running in the open air in the morning in shorts and a T-shirt, I got a double strengthening effect!

Outdoor exercise strengthens muscles, normalizes metabolism and gives extra strength to the body.

Firstly, training in the fresh air strengthens muscles, normalizes metabolism and gives additional strength to the body. And secondly, even on a summer morning it is cool outside, and you quickly get used to the temperature drop, react less and less to it.

My first run lasted 10 minutes at 18 degrees, and I was frankly freezing. But gradually I got to the recommended 30 minutes, got used to the cool temperature and fell in love with my walks in the park. Now I'm waiting for spring to continue training, but for now I often ventilate the apartment and do light exercises.

Step 2: contrast pouring

The next step in my hardening story was contrast dousing. You should not be afraid of this: as it turned out, you need to get used to the drop in water temperature gradually, you do not need to immediately go under the cold stream!

So, for the first 2 weeks I took a warm pleasant shower, and at the end I turned on the tap with cold water until I got room temperature. Then she began to make such a switch twice, gradually adding cold water and increasing the time, and after a month it reached three times.

It is very important to listen to your feelings: from hardening, a surge of strength should appear, and not chills!

Another great water treatment - "Steps along the stream", which provides just a colossal surge of energy. Simply place the shower head in the tub with a cold stream running down the bottom and stomp your feet about 100 times.

When I realized that I had overcome the contrasting procedures, I decided to pour cold water over me. If you only saw how many squeals and joy there were!

Step 3: winter swimming

And just before the New Year, I decided on the most serious step of water hardening - winter swimming.

Experienced "walruses" suggested that you need to warm up by jogging before diving into the water, so it will be easier to cope with the fear of cold water. You should also not be in the hole for more than two minutes, and if you suddenly appear trembling, you must quickly get out. It is very important to protect the chest: so that it does not have time to freeze, you need to dress from top to bottom. It will be a mistake to rub it hard with a towel - this is extra stress for the skin.

After lengthy edification and home preparations, I did it! At the moment of immersion, it was as if a thousand ice needles were thrust into my body, but when I got out of the hole, I experienced something incredible. It was as if an internal heater turned on inside me, I wanted to jump, run and laugh.

After such euphoria, I was ready to do winter swimming even every day, but they immediately explained to me that this could harm the body. You should swim in the ice hole no more than 2 times a week - this is enough to keep yourself in good shape and forget about seasonal colds.

Attention: it is impossible to dive into an ice-hole in case of acute inflammatory diseases and exacerbation of chronic ones, with serious problems of the nervous and cardiovascular systems, lung diseases and allergies to cold.

Well, if you are afraid of cold water or do not like to do exercises, then try alternative hardening.

Step 4: alternative

Cryo-hardening of the upper respiratory tract is considered to be very effective in preventing and treating colds. This procedure is irrigation of the walls of the nasopharynx with liquid nitrogen vapor at a temperature of minus 70 degrees. The doctor injects cold steam into the mouth and nose only a few times using a thin tube.

After cryo-hardening, the immune defense of the whole organism improves and the resistance to dangerous viruses increases.

This method of hardening is the fastest and is suitable even for children, since it is completely safe and painless. After cryo-hardening, the immune defense of the whole organism improves and the resistance to dangerous viruses increases. At first, it is recommended to take it once every 3-4 months, and after a year - only in spring and autumn.

5 reasons for hardening

So why do we need tempering? If you train your body with cold, then you:

1. Forget about seasonal illnesses.
2. You will become slimmer.
3. You will feel younger and more cheerful.
4. Heal your nerves.
5. Strengthen your muscles and joints.

But remember: hardening should be done regularly! To maintain the positive effect, carry out water or air treatments at least once a week. Otherwise, you will have to start all over again.