Night Listening｜Working out after staying up late? Is it cyber health preservation or cyber illness recovery?

This kind of hardcore lifestyle is likely to lead to tragedy! Everyone knows the benefits of fitness for the body, and everyone also knows the harm of staying up late. If you stay up all night the day before and have to lift heavy weights the next day, this is not a double entendre. The potential risks are greater than you think.

After staying up late, the cardiovascular system will be overloaded and the heart rhythm will be disrupted. The cardiovascular system has not been rested, and high-intensity exercise at this time will further stimulate the heart rate and increase blood pressure. It is easy to induce various cardiovascular diseases due to overload of the heart or blood vessels. Even if there is no history of heart disease, the risk of cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction will increase due to excessive burden.

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In addition, high-intensity exercise after staying up late can easily cause various sports injuries. Think about it, after staying up late, our minds are in a state of deep fatigue, it is difficult to concentrate, and we may even have hallucinations when we are dazed. At this time, high-intensity exercise can easily lead to irregular movements and increase the possibility of various sports injuries.

In this case, it is also recommended that you get a good night's sleep and rest before exercising. You should also adjust the amount of exercise and choose relatively relaxing activities. For example, you can choose aerobic exercises such as stretching, low-intensity jogging and swimming, and strictly control the intensity of exercise during exercise.

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Here, I would like to recommend a method to judge the intensity of exercise. You can try to subtract your age from 220, and then multiply the result by 60 percent. This is the upper limit of your exercise heart rate. If your exercise heart rate does not exceed this number, your cardiovascular system will remain in a relatively safe range.

Finally, I have to emphasize that if you can go to bed early in your daily life, don’t stay up late. If you have to stay up late, the best way to recover is sleep rather than exercise. It is best to schedule exercise after sufficient rest.

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Review丨Ma Yong, Professor of Wuhan Institute of Physical Education