AboutRick Karboviak, CSCS Expertise First things first: I WILL NOT ASK QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO AN INJURY OR SORE AREA ON YOUR BODY, please seek medical advice from a doctor, physical therapist, athletic trainer, or chiropractor.
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Question QUESTION: dear sir ,
i am 40 y.o. married with 2 kids ,i like 2 b healthy and apply sport in my life ,
i have heard that ,it is very useful to jog a distance and get tired until being sweat,then jump with a hot tired body in a swiming pool or in the sea ,and that it has great benefits for the heart and the body muscles,is this true?
thanks for your suggestions.
ANSWER: Well, this recommendation alone for better health has no justification, and in realistic terms, who has a pool or sea, or a lake, ready for access, immediately after a run? This is loosely based advice that 'falls' into healthy advice, but bears no reasoning behind it as being beneficial. Also, there are too many loose variables here. "Jog a distance". How long is 'a distance'? 10 feet & 1000 feet are both distances, but require very different demands to run those distances seperately.
I'd advise in reading my free guide through my website, The Mini-Max Method, which delves through most fitness myths and fallacies and just gives you good solid advice on what to start with, with the bare minimum when it comes to first working out. Go to http://speeddialcoach.com/minimax.pdf to view the guide as a PDF file, you will need Adobe Reader to view the file, if you don't have that program on your computer.
Rick Karboviak
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QUESTION: dear sir,
U were right 2 ask ( too many loose variables here. "Jog a distance". How long is 'a distance'? )
and i remind U that it was an enough distance to get sweat which is the main reason for the body to get tired ,exhausted and feel sweat ,so after this condition when i jump at once into a cold water ,will it be good or bad for THE HEART ?
thanks for your attention.
Answer Like I recommended before, the likelihood of following this advice is unrealistic, as most people wouldn't have a pool to jump into to recieve any perceived benefit. From my understanding, the 'after-run pool jump' has no additional benefit for the heart. To me its a wasted effort of time to worry about any additional benefit, when running alone is good enough for the body. Other components of fitness require strength training of the muscles to strengthen the muscles & increase bone density. Jumping into cold water isn't going to offer much in the total realm of fitness/health improvements. If it did, everyone would be jumping into cold water because its a heck of a lot easier to do than running. I don't know where this myth came from, but to me, in all my studies of fitness/sports improvement, there is no need to worry about jumping into any water after a workout. Some athletes who are marathoners or triathletes will go into a cool bath afterwards to aid in muscle recovery, but just because a few people do it, it doesn't mean that everyone has to do it either.
