90% of women have experienced dysmenorrhoea, which is pain or cramps in the abdominal area just before or during the first days of menstruation. Sometimes the pain is so intense that it affects their daily life, they may also feel nausea, bloating, cramps and other symptoms and have to take strong painkillers to ease the pain.
This pain is due to the fact that in each cycle a uterine lining is formed in which the egg would nest if fertilised. If fertilisation does not occur, this layer has to be eliminated by contractions of the uterus stimulated by the action of prostaglandins, which are also responsible for inflammatory processes. If there is an excess of this hormone, this will cause strong contractions and inflammation that can affect the entire abdominal area.
In 2019, a literature review was carried out looking for scientific evidence of the influence of sport on dysmenorrhoea, in which 9 studies were found that compared women with menstrual cramps who exercised regularly with others who did not. Pain was measured according to the visual analogue scale where the person scored the level of perceived pain.
This showed that both high intensity exercise such as running or spinning and low intensity exercise (yoga, pilates) can provide a large reduction in the degree of menstrual pain compared to no physical activity at all.
There are also studies that show that doing sport 3 times a week prevents premenstrual syndrome, which not only has physical symptoms but also affects mood, concentration and irritability.
A very common feature of PMS is a feeling of heaviness in the legs due to fluid retention resulting from hormonal changes.
To alleviate these discomforts, the ideal is to apply a cold effect spray or gel which helps to decongest, providing instant comfort and relief.
When we listen to music that we like there is something that moves inside us, that sound can change your emotions, your motivation, and make you want to dance.
There are many studies that show how certain musical rhythms can influence behaviour, memory, improve respiratory rhythm and mental agility among many other things, because with music we are stimulating various areas of the brain.
The first benefit of music in exercise is that it creates a sense of motivation, by releasing dopamines it makes you feel more energised and ready to exercise.
When we are not used to doing exercise, we are usually breathing incorrectly with the consequent feeling of suffocation and facial flushing. There is research that shows that if we listen to music while we do sport, we will improve the rhythm of breathing and adapt it to the increased demand for oxygen.
Music also reduces the sensation of fatigue, because the nervous system tends to focus on one stimulus, leaving a little aside the rest of the stimuli, thus deceiving the body by omitting the sensation of tiredness when we perform low and moderate intensity exercise.
We were talking before about the fact that music can influence behaviour, it will modify brain function, making people more constant and not abandon physical activity.
Music will help us to reduce the perception of discomfort and pain during exercise, but when we have finished, all those muscular discomforts can awaken. To help alleviate them, there are massage creams that reduce pain, relax the muscles, reduce cramps and fatigue.
Exdol cream Confort Cream aids muscle recovery after physical exertion.
We all know that in order to boast a toned body, you have to do a lot of exercise on a constant basis and we think that muscles are being formed at the moment of physical activity. But strangely enough, it is later, when the body is at rest, that more muscle builds up in the body.
For this muscle growth (or muscle hypertrophy) to occur, repetitive movements must be made that produce overexertion, which in turn causes micro-tearing of the muscle fibres.
It is when the body is at rest that the damaged muscle fibres begin to repair themselves and form new strands of muscle protein, but they will be thicker than before and will even increase in number, leading to muscle growth. In short, you have to destroy first in order to build later, which is why it is so important to rest in order to be able to form new muscle fibres.
Muscle damage after exercise can cause pain, discomfort and even heaviness. The use of massage creams with specific active ingredients provides relief and a relaxing effect. There are those with a warming effect such as Confort Cream of Exdol or the Cold Therapy Spray Exdol with cold effect.
