- Where is better — in a pool, tub or shower?
- Home options
- In a pool
- Charcot’s douche
- Underwater shower
- How does water massage work?
- Nuances and contraindications
What makes unwanted fullness disappear and the desired slimness appear? Mostly, thanks to diets and physical activity. A great addition to this tandem is a massage aimed at weight loss. Those who love water can choose procedures of the corresponding profile.
Where is better — in a pool, tub or shower?
How can problem areas be massaged with water? Let’s consider different methods.
Home options
The most luxurious, although not cheap, can be considered to have a shower cabin or a hot tub in your own bathroom. Plumbing stores offer such equipment sometimes in a huge number of options.
Perhaps now is the very moment when you have to remodel your own bathroom? Then think about it: maybe it is worth allocating additional funds to provide yourself with the opportunity to do water massage at home for weight loss (to raise your tone, relieve fatigue).
Such plumbing is good because it allows you to set not only the water temperature, but also the power of the jets. This allows you to adjust the force of the water on the body (pressure).
Recommendations. Water pressure when massaging the abdomen should not exceed one atmosphere. The impact on the hips is permissible at the level of two to three atmospheres. Higher pressure usually causes unpleasant/painful sensations.
Minimalism reigns in your home bathroom? Even in this case, you can arrange sessions of water self-massage. Especially if you buy a special shower head. Ideally, if it can be used to switch modes with a special lever.
Whirlpool tub for weight loss
Several of the rules below apply to any home hydromassage:
- the water should be warm or cool;
- it is necessary to slightly change the water temperature in one direction or the other, without making too sudden changes;
- it is also recommended to change the water pressure, making it a little weaker, or slightly stronger;
- the duration of the procedure is 20 minutes maximum.
Of course, at home, especially in the absence of a special bath or shower cabin, hydromassage for weight loss will be less effective than in medical and health centers (clinics, salons).
In a pool
If you have the opportunity to visit a good pool, then you have access to one of the best ways to lose weight — swimming. This activity simultaneously combines physical activity and massage.
Modern swimming pool with equipment for hydromassage
Fact. Water is 800 times denser than air (therefore, you can stay on it, and it is so difficult to move with a step in the thickness). When swimming, water resistance gives a slight but obvious massage effect.
Wellness center pools are often equipped with hydro-massage jets. Thanks to this, you can alternate swimming and hydromassage in the pool for weight loss.
If, during the month, you arrange swimming and massage sessions two to three times a week, then the positive result will manifest itself quite quickly and very noticeably. This option is best suited for weight loss in the hips and buttocks (for additional fight against extra pounds in these places, you can perform simple but effective exercises, which we wrote about earlier).
Charcot’s douche
Such a shower was invented in the century before last by Jean-Martin Charcot, the founder of neuropathology. Like many medical inventions, it was created for one purpose (treatment of nervous diseases), but in our time it solves various problems.
Charcot’s douche
Charcot’s douche is successfully used for weight loss, but should only be done in medical and health institutions. The procedure takes place in a special room:
- the recipient becomes against the wall (quite often there are handrails that are very convenient to hold onto);
- a health care professional directs one to two jets to the body and performs certain manipulations with them;
- after the procedure (they last an average of five to seven minutes) it is necessary to dry the body with a towel, and then rest.
Charcot’s douche is a very effective procedure. Ten sessions with an interval of a day are enough to agree with this statement. Powerful water jets not only help to lose weight, but also help with cellulite. However, the procedure is not always and not to everyone’s taste. Even a relatively small pressure can cause discomfort, although pain should normally not be there.
Underwater shower
Another professional type of hydromassage. To perform the procedure, the recipient lies in a bathtub of sufficiently large size (usually 2 x 1 x 0.8 m), equipped with both jets and showers with various nozzles. Water can be fresh, sea or mineral (determined by the possibilities of the institution).
Professional type of hydromassage — underwater shower
The massage is performed by a specialist who, using showers, works out problem areas. Everything happens approximately the same as with a regular massage: intensive water procedures alternate with relaxing ones.
The duration of each procedure, as well as the total number of sessions, are discussed with a specialist at the massage center and/or attending physician.
What to be guided by when choosing a technique? The best option is a doctor’s consultation.
How does water massage work?
In general — like any other (for example, for weight loss of the abdomen and sides). Do not believe that water can “knock out” subcutaneous fat from the body or wash away excess lipids through the pores. But the fact that blood flow, lymph movement, as well as metabolic processes, will be activated, there is no doubt. In addition, with a sufficiently strong water pressure (Charcot’s douche), the muscles reflexively tense, which further contributes to weight loss.
It is important not to forget that hydromassage alone will not help get rid of significant excess weight. It is effective only in combination with diet and feasible exercise.
Nuances and contraindications
With any hydromassage, there should be no impact on the mammary glands and armpits, groin area, face, genitals. It is strictly forbidden to overeat before the procedure, but a feeling of hunger is also unnecessary. A suitable interval between eating and visiting the health center is an hour and a half. Until the entire course is completed, especially if the sessions are repeated daily or every other day, you must completely abandon alcohol.
Contraindications to the procedure are standard:
- impending motherhood (with breastfeeding — with the approval of a doctor);
- any acute diseases and conditions, even if it is a small runny nose;
- skin diseases and damage;
- oncology;
- cholelithiasis and urolithiasis;
- all diseases associated with a violation of the heart, circulatory or metabolic processes (require mandatory consultation with an appropriate specialist).
Hydromassage for weight loss is a great additional procedure. Correct and regular