Can I jog for half an hour during my period?

Running every day is a healthy choice. It can not only enhance immunity and make people's physique better and better, but also help to lose weight and make the body better and better. Some female friends have the good habit of running every day, but when it comes to menstruation, they don’t know whether they can jog. They are worried that jogging will affect menstruation and cause menstrual irregularities. Can I jog for half an hour during menstruation? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. Can I jog for half an hour during my period?

It should be fine to jog during menstruation. Appropriate exercise during menstruation is good for the body. The key is to be reasonable and appropriate. Appropriately reduce the amount of exercise and exercise time, and gradually cultivate the habit of exercising during menstruation. In the first 1 to 2 days of menstruation, you can participate in activities such as light freehand gymnastics, table tennis, shooting on the spot and holding volleyball. Later, as the amount of menstrual blood decreases, you can gradually increase the amount until you resume normal exercise. Avoid participating in exercises that can increase intra-abdominal pressure and cause violent abdominal vibrations. Such as push-ups, sit-ups, lateral shot put, sprinting, high jump, long jump, stride jump, jump up to spike volleyball or shoot, etc. Women who are menstruating should not exercise under the scorching sun, or take cold water baths. Pay special attention to not catching cold in the abdomen, so as not to cause ovarian dysfunction and lead to menstrual disorders. Generally, women should not go swimming during menstruation. Women with severe dysmenorrhea, excessive menstrual bleeding or menstrual disorders should stop everything during menstruation.

2. Will excessive exercise affect menstruation?

Excessive exercise will affect menstruation to a certain extent, mainly because excessive exercise can easily cause high mental tension and lead to endocrine dysfunction and menstrual disorders.

3. The harm of heavy exercise to women's menstruation

When you exercise a lot, your weight drops too quickly and you are highly nervous, which can cause the release of sex hormones in your body. If gonadotropin cannot be released normally, follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone cannot be released normally, which will affect the ovulation function of the ovaries, and the menstruation will become thinner and less. If this continues for a long time, amenorrhea may even occur.

4. What should I do if excessive exercise affects menstruation?

Adolescent girls are prone to menstrual disorders after a lot of exercise, but they can generally recover after reducing the amount of exercise, their weight will naturally return, and their menstruation will come naturally, which will not affect fertility. In order to avoid menstrual disorders, female friends should try not to do high-intensity exercise. If they must do it, they should pay attention to increasing nutrition, avoiding weight loss, and maintaining normal menstruation.

5.What are the factors that affect menstruation?

1. Excessive dieting will result in insufficient fat storage in the body, causing the body to become weak, thus affecting irregular menstruation.

2. Excessive stress can lead to endocrine disorders, or taking birth control pills can lead to endocrine disorders, affecting menstrual disorders.

3. Cold stimulation during menstruation can cause excessive contraction of blood vessels in the pelvic cavity, which can cause oligomenorrhea or even amenorrhea

4. Addiction to alcohol and cigarettes: Certain components in cigarette smoke and alcohol can interfere with physiological processes related to menstruation and cause menstrual disorders.

6. Tips

If a female friend suffers from amenorrhea due to excessive exercise, she should seek medical attention immediately upon discovery. If amenorrhea lasts too long, the internal reproductive organs will gradually shrink and become smaller due to the lack of ovarian hormones, and fertility will be affected before returning to normal.