Health conscious people can gain a lot of benefits from regular massage therapy. It can improve flexibility, decrease tenderness and tautness and helps minimize recovery time. It helps break down scar tissue from previous injuries, further improving circulation and mobility. Massage helps flush out toxins from the body. Environmental toxins cause stress to the body, and this becomes an supplementary workload for you. Getting a massage can help you detoxify and make the body focus more on its other functions. Massage also decreases tiredness levels. You can work out better and longer if your tiredness level is reduced, and your recovery time becomes shorter and you can get back to the gym sooner.
Massage can help in weight loss by lowering cloistral levels. Cloistral is known as the stress hormone. When we are under pressure, cloistral is released by the body and triggers the fight or flight response. When the body is stressed out, it focuses its efforts to deal with the stress. The intestines slow or stop the digestion of food. This is why when we are under pressure, we don't feel hungry. This is detrimental to our weight loss efforts in the long run because our metabolism is compromised. Massage as a relaxation measure can help lower cloistral levels, and there are claims that massage breaks up subcutaneous fat capsules allowing it to be engrossed back by the body. These claims however are uncorroborated and there are no studies to back it up.
Massage directly affects the way you exercise. It makes you feel relaxed and it decreases muscle tension. All these benefits aid you to perform your exercises better and longer. The more you exercise the more calories you spend. Massage, then, indirectly assists your weight loss efforts. However, one thing is certain. Massage makes you feel fine and that's enough reason to make it a part of your fitness regimen. After all, a fitness regimen's goal is to make you feel and look excellent.
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