How to Improve Blood Circulation

If you sit all day at the office, there is a good chance when you go home, you are feeling tired, weak, out of it, drained. This is because when you don't move your body, lubricate your muscles or use your joints, your blood can not flow properly. Here are a few things you can do.

Difficulty:

Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Change of lifestyle

1. Take breaks. Even if it's a 10 minute break away from the desk. It's important to move.

2. Everyday at lunch time walk for at least 30 minutes. It will allow blood to flow, improve your spirit and boost you mood as well as reduce stress.

3. Eat less Sugar.

4. Quit smoking.

5. Get Massages. Massages are an excellent way to improve blood circulation. They are essential to over all good health because massages rid toxins and drain lymph nodes, they also improve look and feel of your skin.

6. Drink water.

7. Excercise. yoga, pilates, running on the treadmil, kick boxing, power walking, jumping rope, biking-all of these promote productive blood circulation.

8. Stretch. At your desk, there are many stretches you can do. This will promote blood circulation and energy. In chair yoga we use some of these strecthes:

   1) spinal twist:
   (twisting to your right, take right hand over the back of your chair, take left hand to the right knee, now twist and breath.
   Do the same for opposite side.)

   Cat cow pose:
   1) With your hands placed on your knees, curl your spine, arch back and look up as you inhale
   as you exhale, round spine, tuck tummy in and press chin into your chest)

   Neck stretch:
   1) Tilt your head to the right. Take your right hand to the left ear. Stay here and feel the stretch on the left side between your ear and shoulder. DO the same on the other side.)

9. Make fists and gently tap your knees, thighs, back and ribcage. This gets the blood moving.

Tips & Warnings

• Poor blood circulation is no joke. When your organs do not receive enough oxygen , serious illnesses like heart disease, stroke and cancer are highly likely to develop. Here are a few symptoms to watch out for and be aware.

• Tingling in your hands, feet, arms and legs.

• Skin discoloration. If your skin turns bluish. This can occur in the skin of anywhere in the body.

• Cold Hands/Feet

• Low Energy - As with stamina most sufferers of blood circulation problems will also have low energy levels.