We live in the golden age of fitness. Many people visit gyms for strength training, which ultimately results in increased muscle size. Other’s train to burn calories, and some, go the extra step and exercise to increase endurance.
Whichever one applies to you, it is also important to stretch and relax your muscles. Even when no work-out training is carried out, muscle relaxation comes along with certain benefits.
Progressive muscle relaxation lowers the activities of stress hormones, causes improvement in sleep quality, lowers blood pressure, helps to increase blood flow to muscles, helps reduce anxiety and fatigues, and even helps to maintain normal blood sugar levels.
The video below shows a newly invented massage machine built for the purpose of muscle relaxation. The machine seen here is not hostile to the body and acts like a foam roller.
Muscle relaxation can be carried out about 3 to 5 times per week, and each session can last for about 20 minutes. Would you try it?
