In cold weather, warming up can be pleasant or even save your life. Keeping you warm can also make you feel better and reduce spending on winter bills. Here are some tips on how to warm up.
Steps
Method 1 of 2: Warming Up in Extreme Situations
Step 1. Wear warm clothing
The best way to warm up is to wear appropriate clothing. If you have to go out, dress in layers.
- You should have three layers of insulation. For the first layer, wear thermal shirts, tights, or materials that can absorb moisture. For the mid-layer, wear thick materials, such as fleece. For the outer layer, wear a material that protects you from snow, rain and wind.
- The layers should be loose and not tight. You want to avoid sweating, because sweat creates moisture, which will make you feel more cold.
Step 2. Cover all exposed skin
Wear a hat, scarf, and gloves. Forgetting a scarf can make you feel a lot colder, because you will lose a lot of heat through the skin of your neck. Wearing only one layer of pants is a serious mistake many people make. Wear thermal pants, fleece tights, and leg warmers under your jeans. Wear multiple pairs of socks with winter boots. Make sure a pair of socks are tight and woolen.
Step 3. Create friction
If you don't have warm clothes, or if you are dressed in layers but are still cold, create friction between the cold parts of your body. This will generate heat. Rub your arms and legs and try to create as much friction as possible.
- If possible, put your arms inside the shirt and keep them inside. In this way you will increase the mass of the body and you will conserve more heat, because the body disperses it from the clothes and from both arms. If you are wearing long sleeves, put one arm inside the other's sleeve and vice versa.
- Increase your volume as much as possible. Put your arms and hands under your legs or use the knitting technique. However, do not increase your surface; you would lose more heat.
Step 4. Move your arms and legs
To warm your feet and hands, circulate the blood inside them. If you have cold feet, try moving your leg back and forth 30-50 times. Make sure when moving that you use your thigh muscle and swing your leg in wide arches. To warm up your arms, move your arms in large circular motions. Make sure you use your whole arm for the movement.
- One reason why your hands and feet become cold is because all the blood is pumped to the chest, leaving the hands and feet without blood and without heat. Wear a jacket and more layers on your chest if you always have cold hands and feet.
- If you are cold in the extremities such as nose and hands, blow on them. Use the hot air generated by the abdomen to warm your hands. For the nose, try cupping your hands over it and blowing. You will not only warm your nose but also your hands this way.
Step 5. Get closer to other people
Body heat is transferred between people. The larger mass attracts more heat. Other people give off a lot of body heat. If you are with another person, hug them to stay warm.
Method 2 of 2: Warming Up in Normal Situations
Step 1. Drink hot drinks
Drinking hot tea or coffee or soup activates the heat receptors along the digestive tract, and this gives a feeling of warmth. Tea and coffee offer many health benefits, so if you avoid cream, sugar, and cookies, you'll get antioxidants as well as keep you warm. Soups have the added benefit of being low in calories.
Hot drinks can also warm your hands. Squeezing a cup of hot tea with cold hands can reheat in minutes
Step 2. Eat some ginger
Ginger is a natural cold remedy and offers many other health benefits. It acts as a stimulant, promoting blood circulation and raising the body temperature. It warms you from the inside. Brova to drink ginger tea, eat gingerbread or ginger biscuits, or sprinkle it on your plates.
Try putting powdered ginger in your shoes, slippers, or socks if you can't warm your feet
Step 3. Kitchen
Using the oven and stove helps to heat the kitchen. Stews, soups and casseroles will warm your body if you eat them.
Step 4. Take a warm bath
Soaking in a hot bath raises your body temperature. If you are cold, try soaking in hot water, or taking a hot shower if you prefer. After taking a shower, dry off as soon as possible and wear pants and long sleeves to trap heat on your body, and stay warm.
Try the saunas and Turkish baths to warm up if you can access them
Step 5. Eat healthy fats
One reason for the poor thermoregulation of the body is a low percentage of fat mass. Fat is needed to insulate the body. Eat a diet high in monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, which are found in foods such as salmon, nuts, avocados, and olive oil.
Step 6. Clean
Doing housework allows you to move and get the blood flowing. When the blood circulates, your temperature rises. Vacuum, mop, or mop to warm up.
- Washing the dishes can help you a lot to keep you warm. Fill the sink with hot water. Leaving your hands in the water while you wash and rinse the dishes will help raise your body temperature.
- Doing laundry can also help you fight the cold. The heat from the dryer can help you warm your arms and hands. Clothes that come out of the dryer are hot; wear them right away.
Step 7. Exercise
Physical activity promotes blood circulation, which helps keep you warm. Run, lift weights, do yoga, or any movement that makes you sweat.
- If you are unable to do a proper workout, try to move at least your arms or legs.
- Try Ashtanga yoga to warm up. This type of yoga leads you to take poses and do breathing exercises that generate internal body heat.
- Are you cold and don't have time for a yoga class? Try this simple pose that can warm you up: the cobra. Lie face down on the floor. Place your palms close to your chest. Push up, lifting your head, shoulders, and chest. Pull your shoulder blades down and back. Hold the position for a few seconds, then come back down. Do a few repetitions to warm up.
Step 8. Breathe through your nose
When you breathe through your nose, the air is heated and this helps to raise your body temperature. Try inhaling and holding your breath for four seconds before exhaling. Repeat a couple of times to warm up.
Step 9. Be more active in the social sphere
According to a University of Toronto study, people who feel lonely or excluded feel cold more. Spending time with people makes you feel warmer. Instead of being alone in front of the television, meet a friend or family member.
