All women in the world dream of a slim figure, but only a few of them can refuse delicacies and exhaust themselves with exercises for all muscle groups. But a miracle happened! American housewife Greer Childers has developed a unique weight loss method called Bodyflex. Following this method, you can lose weight without even restricting yourself to food, and just doing daily breathing exercises for 15 minutes. In this article, we will familiarize ourselves with this method in more detail and find out whether Bodyflex is harmful to health or not.
According to Greer Childers, Bodyflex breathing exercises for weight loss should be performed on an empty stomach in the morning. It consists of 12 exercises. The exercises are performed in 5 stages: first exhale, then inhale, then a strong exhalation, holding the breath and retracting the abdomen in a certain position for 8-10 seconds, inhale again.
In order to lose weight with the help of "Bodyflex", you need to have flabby muscles and be a person who has never before been engaged in aerobic exercise, and also has impressive excess weight. A trained person with a couple of extra pounds of Bodyflex simply will not help. Yes, and they will have to deal with them throughout their lives, as a break in classes will quickly return lost kilograms.
Doctors and fitness instructors state with confidence that Bodyflex is harmful to health, as holding your breath for a long time helps to saturate the body with carbon dioxide, and not oxygen.
Bodyflex is based on aerobic respiration - forced
pulmonary hyperventilation. It can lead to fainting, seizures, narrowing of blood vessels in the brain, or even temporary respiratory arrest.
Although Greer Childers claims that everyone can engage in breathing exercises, regardless of the lifestyle that they lead, and their age, the list of contraindications for classes is huge:
- pregnancy;
- hypertension, hypotension, arrhythmia;
- tumors;
- the period after surgery or head injuries;
- chronic diseases;
- high myopia, glaucoma;
- cholelithiasis;
- hernia;
- hyperthyroidism;
- bleeding;
- emphysema or asthma.
We conclude that only healthy people can engage in this breathing gymnastics, and those with a weak immune system “Bodyflex” are harmful. Before you start practicing, you need to consult a doctor and conduct a thorough examination of the body.
Here are a few reviews of women who tried “Bodyflex”: “the results were noticeable after a few weeks, but despite the fact that the volume of the hips decreased significantly, headaches began to occur during training, fainting occurred, the heartbeat became more frequent, blood pressure increased and as a result, hypertension arose. ”
If you still want to master this technique, despite the fact that “Bodyflex” is harmful, do not do the exercises yourself, but contact an experienced instructor. But be aware that the duration of classes should never be increased.