body care after exercise
Sport as a New Year's Resolution
The beginning of the year is the ideal time to finally put your good intentions into action: less stress, a healthier diet, enough sleep and, above all, more exercise! Movement and sport, preferably outdoors, strengthen our immune system, strengthen the cardiovascular system and promote a healthy metabolism. If you run regularly, you protect your body from heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. But how consistently do we stick to our good intentions? How do we manage to make our fitness program a pleasant, regular habit?
Pay attention to additional exercise in everyday life
Our modern everyday life is dominated by cars, elevators and escalators. We move less and less. Instead, we should consider which journeys we can make by bike or on foot. For example, instead of taking the elevator to the 3rd floor, you could walk up. This way you not only improve your endurance and strengthen your muscles, but you also reduce stress - without any complicated additional training.
Schedule fixed training times
Create a fixed schedule for your endurance training with light jogging, walking, swimming or cycling 2-3 times a week. Even with regular 30-minute training sessions, you will soon notice how your body gets used to it. You will find the exercise pleasant and you will soon find yourself in a healthy state of fitness. To make your training program even more binding and motivating for yourself, you could also arrange to do some exercise with other people. Then it will be easier for you to overcome the urge to stick to your good intentions regularly.
Protect your face from winter cold
In cold temperatures, not only gloves but also a warm hat are a must, because our body loses up to 70% of its heat through the head. To effectively prevent irritated skin and redness when the temperature suddenly changes from indoors to outdoors, the Anti-Pollution Facial Serum is a suitable hydrating base under a face cream. It provides intensive moisture and has an antioxidant effect.
Did you know that at temperatures below 8 degrees Celsius our skin stops producing sebum, which keeps the complexion supple and smooth? The skin then tends to dry out and reacts more with hypersensitivity. To strengthen your skin barrier, apply 2-3 drops of facial oil or the water-free Face Balm Amaranth as a cold protection cream before your winter workout. Apply cream to your skin at least 15 minutes beforehand so that all the active ingredients are well absorbed and your skin is protected from wind and weather before you go outside.
Enjoy your physical fitness
After your outdoor workout, you will be rewarded with a warm feeling of well-being and new vitality. Your skin looks rosy, appears to have better blood circulation and is supplied with more oxygen. This accelerates the regeneration of cells. Regular exercise also strengthens the collagenous tissue in your skin. The connective tissue stays smooth and firm for a long time, so you don't have to worry about cellulite. Sweating during exercise also cleanses the pores of your skin, improves your metabolism and rids your body of toxins - the best prerequisite for long-term improvement and clear skin.
Proper body care after exercise
After your exercise program, enjoy a shower with the pampering organic body wash, which stabilizes the skin's own acid mantle. Spread the gel over the body and then rinse it off with warm water.
A relaxing muscle massage with the Bio Body Oil Sportive Spirit stimulates the metabolism, accelerates the removal of waste products from the over-acidified muscles and leaves the skin feeling smooth. When using as a body oil for dry, stressed skin after a shower, massage the oil sparingly onto your still damp skin in small circular movements from the feet towards the heart.
If you prefer a firming body cream instead of a body oil, the Organic Body Balm Argan Palmarosa provides a triple effect: It strengthens the skin barrier, improves moisture retention and firms the connective tissue.
The right hair care after exercise
Even if your hair is wet with sweat after a strenuous workout, you should not wash it more than once a day with a very mild organic shampoo. Take time for a thorough head massage while you clean your hair. If you have long hair, it is usually enough to just clean the scalp with shampoo. This is more than enough to also provide the lengths with shampoo. After washing your hair, let your hair air dry if possible. Avoid blow-drying and styling devices with heat such as straightening irons or curling irons, which unnecessarily damage the healthy hair structure.
