What are the benefits of roller skating? How to practice roller skating

Roller skating is a whole-body sport that requires the coordination of all parts of the body. It can play a good role in exercising the body, thereby improving physical quality and strengthening physical fitness. Most friends know that if you want to roller skate well, it is most important to ensure body balance. Balance is controlled by the brain, so we also exercise the brain at the same time! Isn't it a lot of benefits!

Contents of this article

1. What are the benefits of roller skating?

2. How to practice roller skating

3. What are the precautions for roller skating?

What are the benefits of roller skating?

1. Exercise your balance

To play roller skating well, you must ensure that your body can maintain balance. Therefore, long-term roller skating can promote muscle coordination, constantly exercise the body's balance ability, and thus exercise the brain.

2. Enhance physical fitness

Roller skating is a whole-body sport that requires the coordination of all parts of the body. It can have a good effect of exercising the body, thereby improving physical fitness and strengthening physical fitness.

3. Can lose weight and shape the body

Roller skating is an aerobic exercise that can promote metabolism and achieve the effect of losing weight. Roller skating can also make the back of the thighs, buttocks, and lower back more shaped. And if you strengthen the arm swing, it can also help shape the forearms and chest.

4. Reduce heart disease

Roller skating can improve the body's ability to absorb oxygen better than jogging, swimming, cycling and other sports. It can promote the improvement and metabolism of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, improve cardiopulmonary function and reduce cardiovascular diseases.

5. Enhance joint flexibility

When roller skating, the knee and ankle joints need to use appropriate force to support the body to complete actions such as supporting, sliding, and turning. This has a good training effect on the joint's supporting ability, especially flexibility.

6. Release stress

Roller skating is a sport that has both recreational and fitness functions, and it is more interesting and enjoyable than other sports. The pleasure of roller skating can help you relieve stress, cheer up and relax your nerves while sliding forward.

7. Improve stress resistance

When learning roller skating, you will fall more or less, but this fall is also a kind of learning. Because you will get up again after falling, and in the process of falling and getting up, you can develop a certain resistance to setbacks. This is especially beneficial for children who learn roller skating.

How to practice roller skating

1. Standing and stepping

Put on your roller skates, stand with your feet parallel to each other, shoulder width apart, legs slightly bent, upper body slightly forward, arms hanging naturally. Move your body weight to your left leg, then slightly lift and lower your right leg. Then move your body weight to your right leg, slightly lift and lower your left leg. Repeat this exercise, gradually increasing your speed.

2. Balance on one foot

Training method: Stand still, hold the railing or a companion, try to support your weight with one foot, stretch the other leg out to the side and then bring it back to the starting position, repeat the above action with the other foot.

3. Squat exercises that imitate sliding posture

The skating posture of speed skating is directly related to the skating speed. The correct skating posture is that the upper body is leaning forward and close to horizontal, the shoulders are slightly higher than the arms, the legs are bent, the upper body is at an angle of 15 to 20 degrees to the ground, the thigh and calf are at an angle of 90 to 110 degrees, the ankle joint is at an angle of 50 to 70 degrees, the hands are held behind the back or swing naturally at the sides of the body to maintain balance, the head is naturally raised, and the eyes are looking 5 to 10 meters forward.

4. "Eight" walking exercise

Stand with your feet in an outward "eight" shape, maintain a good standing posture, move your center of gravity to your left foot, take a small step forward with your right foot, and move your center of gravity to your right foot. Then lift your left foot and take a step forward, and move your center of gravity to your left leg. Then lift your left foot and take a step forward, and move your center of gravity to your left leg. Repeat the above exercises.

5. Cross-step walking

Stand in place, first move the center of gravity to the left leg, pull in the right leg, step to the front and outside of the left leg to cross the position, move the center of gravity to the right leg, then pull in the left leg and step to the left to return to the starting position, and practice repeatedly.

What are the precautions for roller skating?

1. Choose a safe venue

You should choose a safe venue. For example, don't roller skate on driveways or places with a lot of pedestrians. Also, choose a relatively flat surface. Ground with bumps, slopes, stagnant water, or oily and sticky surfaces is not suitable for roller skating.

2. Roller skating equipment should be complete

When roller skating, you should pay attention to protecting yourself. Don't be so anxious as to not take any protective measures just to slim down your legs. Wear helmets, elbow pads, knee pads, palm guards and other protective gear as much as possible to reduce some injuries.

3. Pay attention to diet

In addition to exercise, if you want to lose weight in your legs, you should also pay attention to your daily diet. Eating protein-containing foods in moderation, such as meat, dairy products, beans, etc., can help you lose weight in your legs. Eating some potassium-containing foods can also help solve the problem of edema in the thighs. The legs are the part where water is most likely to accumulate. If you don't drain it in time, your thighs will become elephant legs. Celery, tomatoes, radishes, bananas and other fruits and vegetables are rich in potassium and are suitable foods to eat during thigh weight loss.