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Exercise for Detoxification
Adapted from The Purification Plan: Clear Your Body of the Toxins That Contribute to Weight Gain, Fatigue, and Chronic Illness, from the editors of Rodale Health Books (Rodale, 2005).
There are as many different types of exercise as there are ways you can imagine to move your body. Though all types of exercise will help you detoxify, some are clearly more beneficial than others.
Walk This Way
Generally speaking, aerobic exercises like walking, jogging, cycling and swimming are the most detoxifying. Of the wide array of aerobic activities you can choose from, walking is hands-down the most popular. It’s also something almost everyone can do to get a daily dose of detoxification.
Jump for Joy
Bouncing on a trampoline, such as a minitramp or rebounder, is one of the least-appreciated exercises for cleansing and strengthening every cell of your body. It’s also one of the best workouts for activating the lymphatic system.
Let Your Body Flow
For centuries, yoga has been prescribed as moving medicine for the immune system. Yoga helps lower stress hormones that compromise immunity while stimulating the lymphatic system to purge toxins and bring fresh, nutrient oxygenated blood to each organ to ensure optimum function.
Pick Up the Pace
There’s a longstanding myth among exercisers that you need to exercise at a lower intensity for a longer duration to maximize fat burning and release toxins. Not true. To really rev your metabolism, burn more calories and keep your fat-burning switch turned on for a longer time after you’re done exercising, try picking up the pace.
Make Some Muscle
Strength training boosts natural muscle-making chemicals such as human growth hormone and preserves the muscle we have, while also replacing the muscle tissue we’ve lost. Lifting weights also helps you shed fat by simply burning calories. What’s more, your calorie-burning metabolism can stay elevated for up to 48 hours after you’ve finished lifting.
Take It Outside
Whenever possible, infuse your exercise routine with some fresh air by exercising outdoors. When exercising outside it’s important that you do not add to your toxic burden by walking or jogging along crowded roads or highways where you’re breathing exhaust. You can avoid nullifying your detoxifying exercise with environmental pollutants by exercising at the right time and place.
What is your favorite exercise for detoxing? Let us know if the comment field below.
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add your comment »I do simple yoga and love to walk BUT there is no area where I live that I am not exposed to herbicides and pesticides and therefore have not been able to walk in the warm months for the last two year. This is very frustrating,,,,I'm not getting enough outdoor air or Sun.
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Dance :)
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I'M Back I Absoulutly LOVE this site! I have been woken up again, after the past 2+years of being clogged by pain meds and traveling with my job and not eating right, I have found a site that I can relate to now and have so many different choices of new and Refreshing things I can do to lose the 60lbs I put on and also cleanse out all the toxins now! thanks for all the ideas as a matter of fact I am going to buy a trampoline to put out with my pool I just got and Its going to be a good summer working outside, to lose weight & gain some vitality again, I am nearing 50 but who cares what my neighbors think when I am out there bouncing, doing pool yoga and having lots of fun!
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I walk with my dogm 2 or three kilometers daily besides my phisiotherapy exercices for my back, ride bycicles.Sunday's some streets are car free for bycicle riders.If I don´t do my exercices I feel numb. Manuela Bogotá Colombia
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Dance, dance, dance!!! Okay, I know this sounds like a college kid comment, but whenever I drank (okay, DRINK) a little too much, I make sure I'm sober before driving or sleeping. One of the BEST ways to do so? DANCING!! I just get lost in the music, moving every muscle in my body. This kind of heart-pumping motion moves the blood through, carrying toxins OUT and pulling oxygen IN. I sweat, breathe, and detoxify. And lo and behold, I feel full of joy, too! :) If only I'd have figured this out when I WAS a college kid!!
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For a great exercise session for both body and spirit, try hula hooping outside with a big "groove" hoop! It's fun exercise, you can hoop "straight" or throw a bunch of creative tricks in, you can do it with or without music, and best of all, you can do it alone or with a group of folks! Check out www.hooping.org for ideas on where to get one or how to make your own...
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I have been on heavy pain meds for 2 yrs now and detoxing my system is vital to my liver & organs, I love working out in my pool now doing my yoga on my pool floatie is fantastic, and then stretching in the water takes away the pelvis pain I have had severly for years now,lots of green tea all day, and just being outdoors has opened my mind,soul & body!
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Excellent article, I've been practicing yoga for years and realazed the detox benefits but I never thought of walking to detox - thanks for the information.
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I know that since joining a fitness club a couple of years ago I can keep my headaches to a minimum -- even those that are caused by food (too much or the wrong kind!). It's a wonderful "fix" -- along with eating a lot of raw, fresh foods. If you don't move, your blood doesn't flow -- and carry all those toxins away!! It's been a real blessing for me to learn this (at an advanced age, alas....).
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