Benefits of raising your feet

In addition to relieving leg fatigue, raising your feet has many other benefits. Raising your feet when resting can help promote blood circulation, prevent varicose veins, and help slim your legs. When raising your feet, you should adjust the length of time according to your physical condition and feelings. If you feel numbness, stop immediately to prevent other adverse effects on your body.

Benefits of elevating your feet

1. Improve blood circulation. The easiest way to raise your feet is to put a pillow under your feet when you sleep. This way we don’t need to do any exercises, just put our feet on the pillow and then go to sleep. Through this posture, our legs are fully relaxed, and the blood circulation in the legs and feet will flow back to the lungs and heart, so that the lungs and heart can get sufficient oxygen, and promote the activation of venous blood circulation in the legs and feet.

2. Cheer up. Every time we put our feet up, it is equivalent to letting the body breathe a sigh of relief, making the spirit healthy and vigorous again, and fully improving work efficiency.

3. Relieve varicose veins. Many people's jobs require them to stand for long periods of time, such as teachers, waiters, etc. Because of long periods of standing, these people are prone to varicose veins in the lower limbs, and blood easily accumulates in the lower limbs. By raising the lower limbs, blood can flow back to the heart sufficiently, which is beneficial for the recovery of fatigue in the lower limbs.

4. Helps sleep. When your feet are raised, your body is deeply relaxed. In this state, the body's digestive ability improves, making it easier for people to recover from fatigue and fall asleep more easily.

5. Protect your spine. If we maintain a posture for a long time, the spine will easily become stiff, leading to physical fatigue, and in severe cases, even damage to the body. By raising our feet high, our spine can be kept in a horizontal state, and at the same time, blood circulation will be smooth, which can relieve spinal pressure.

6. Slim legs. This is the benefit that we modern women pursue most. After a day of walking and standing, our legs become tired and swollen, which affects the appearance. By raising our legs high, we can achieve the effect of removing leg edema, and if combined with exercise and long-term persistence, we can also reduce leg fat and achieve the goal of slimming down our legs.

How to raise your feet

The methods of raising legs vary depending on our needs.

If we want to promote blood circulation and relieve fatigue, we can put our legs on the sofa or coffee table while watching TV, as long as they are higher than the body. This method is convenient and can be done at any time.

If we want to help sleep and relieve varicose veins, it is best to put a pillow under our feet when we sleep, raise our legs above the heart, and then go to sleep. After a night of keeping your legs elevated, blood returns to the body, heart, and brain, helping us fall asleep.

If we want to slim down our legs, we need to raise our legs to 90 degrees, either against a wall or in the air. Of course, if you use a suspended method, the effect will be better than leaning against the wall. If we want to achieve the goal of slimming down our legs faster and better, we can also cross our legs while lifting them, for about 3 minutes at a time.

Who is suitable for lifting feet?

1. Elderly. The blood circulation and metabolism of the elderly are relatively slow, and blood is easily retained in the legs and unable to flow upward, resulting in blood stagnation in the body and cold limbs. Raising the legs at this time can allow blood to flow back to the heart effectively, effectively alleviating the physical discomfort of the elderly.

2. People who stand for long periods of time and those with varicose veins. If you stand for a long time, your legs will become swollen. At this time, we need to lift our feet and massage them to metabolize the water in the body and reduce edema. It also relieves varicose veins.

3. People who want to slim down their legs.