- What is better: a pool, a bath or a shower?
- Options at home
- Pool
- Charcot douche
- Underwater shower
- How does water massage affect the body?
- Nuances and contraindications
How to get rid of excess weight and reach the desired harmony? First of all, with diet and physical activity. A great addition to that will be a massage aimed at weight loss. Fans of water treatments can choose suitable procedures in this area.
What is better: a pool, a bath or a shower?
How to make water massage problem areas? Let’s look at different methods.
Options at home
The most luxurious, but not cheap, option is a shower cubicle or a bath with hydromassage in your own bathroom. Plumbing stores offer a huge range of such equipment.
Perhaps, it is time to renovate your bathroom? Then think of whether to allocate additional means to be able to use hydromassage at home for weight loss (increase of tone, decrease of fatigue).
The advantage of such plumbing is that it allows to adjust not only the water temperature, but also the power of the jets. This gives an opportunity to control the intensity (pressure) of water
Baths with hydromassage for weight loss
For any hydromassage at home the following rules are true:
- water should be warm or cool;
- it is necessary to smoothly change the water temperature in one direction or the other, not making it too sharp;
- it is also recommended to change water pressure, which should be made slightly weaker or stronger;
- duration of the procedure — up to 20 minutes.
Of course, at home, especially without a special bath or shower cabin, hydromassage for weight loss won’t be as effective as in health centers (clinics, beauty salons).
Pool
If you have the opportunity to visit a good swimming pool, you can use one of the best ways of weight loss — swimming. This type of activity combines both physical activity and massage.
Modern swimming pool with hydromassage equipment
Fact. Water is 800 times denser than air (that is why you float, but it is so hard to take a step at the bottom in the deep-water area). While swimming, water resistance has a small, but noticeable massaging effect.
Swimming pools of health centers are often equipped with hydromassage jets. This makes it possible to alternate between swimming and hydromassage in the pool for weight loss.
If to organize swimming and massage procedures two or three times a week during a month, the positive effect will be fast and noticeable. This option is ideal for weight loss in the thighs and buttocks (as an additional fight against extra pounds in these areas simple but effective exercises are suitable, which we wrote about earlier).
Charcot douche
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Charcot douche
Charcot douche is also successfully used for weight loss, but it should be taken only in health centers. The procedure is done in a special room:
- a patient stands near a wall (often, there are handrails which you can hold onto conveniently);
- a specialist directs one or two jets at the body and performs certain manipulations with them;
- after the procedure (it usually lasts five to seven minutes), it is necessary to dry the body with a towel and then rest.
Charcot douche is a quite effective method. Ten procedures with an interval of one day are enough to see it. Strong jets of water not only contribute to weight loss, but also help to fight cellulite. However, the procedure is not pleasant for everyone. Even a relatively low pressure can cause discomfort, although there should be no pain.
Underwater shower
This is another type of professional hydromassage. For the procedure the patient lays down in a quite big bath (usually 2 x 1 x 0.8 m), equipped with both nozzles and showers with different attachments. Water can be fresh, sea or mineral (depending on possibilities of the center).
Professional type of hydromassage — underwater shower
The massage is done by a specialist who treats problem areas with the help of showers. Everything happens almost in the same way as with regular massage: intensive jets of water are alternated with relaxing ones.
Duration of each procedure, as well as total number of sessions, is discussed with a specialist of the massage center and/or the attending physician.
What is important to take into account while choosing a method? The best option is to consult with a doctor.
How does water massage affect the body?
In general — just like any other massage (for example, for weight loss in the abdomen and flanks areas). It is not necessary to think that water can “wash away” subcutaneous fat from the body or flush out excess lipids through pores. However, there is no doubt that it will activate blood flow, lymph flow, and metabolic processes. Moreover, with sufficiently strong water pressure (Charcot douche) muscle tension occurs, which further contributes to weight loss.
It is important to remember that hydromassage by itself will not help to get rid of significant excess weight. It is effective only in combination with diet and feasible physical activity.
Nuances and contraindications
During any hydromassage the mammary glands and armpits, groin area, face, and genitals should not be treated. It is highly recommended not to overeat before the procedure, but hunger is also not good. Optimal time interval between meals and a visit to the health center is one to one and a half hours. Alcohol should be
