Exercise for Prostate Health: The Important Role of Exercise in Glandular Health

**Prostate Health Care**

Exercise is beneficial to the function of all systems in the body, thus improving physical fitness and preventing diseases. This is the true meaning of the saying "life lies in movement".

There is a story that Norway is rich in sardines. After being caught, the sardines often die on the way to other places, and even changing the seawater along the way does not help.

Norwegian fishermen finally discovered the cause of the sardines' deaths: the sardines have a habit of dozing off and die in their sleep.

So these fishermen put several ferocious catfish into the boxes they were transporting sardines.

In order to avoid being eaten, the sardines had to keep running around and dared not doze off anymore. Although a few sardines were eaten by the catfish, the vast majority survived.

Prolonged drowsiness caused the sardines to die, while exercise prevented them from dying while drowsy, illustrating the idea that "life lies in movement."

The same applies to humans. Scientific and reasonable exercise can improve the function of various systems in the human body and is a good way to prevent disease, prolong life, and achieve health and longevity.

Exercise is beneficial for enhancing the function of various bodily systems, including prostate health, and can help improve physical fitness and prevent disease.

The main benefits of exercise to the body include: exercise can enhance the function of blood circulation in the cardiovascular and urinary systems; exercise can promote the improvement of respiratory function; exercise can improve the function of the digestive system; exercise can enhance the function of the musculoskeletal system; and exercise can improve the function of the body's immune system.

A reasonable lifestyle and exercise methods are of great significance to human health and longevity.

Ancient Chinese health practitioners recognized this point, and adjusting daily routines according to the sequence of the day is an important manifestation of this understanding.

As early as more than two thousand years ago, our ancestors put forward the health preservation principle of "regular daily life", admonishing people to follow the daily changes of yang energy and arrange their daily activities in a reasonable manner.

The ancients' concept of "daily life" did not refer only to work and rest schedules, but rather to all daily activities including clothing, housing, work, exercise, and rest.

Therefore, exercise activities should follow the movement pattern of Yang energy in order to achieve the effect of "twice the result with half the effort".

Zhang Zhicong, a health expert from the Qing Dynasty, compared a day to four seasons, saying, "A day is divided into four seasons: morning is spring, midday is summer, sunset is autumn, and midnight is winter."

Therefore, he proposed that the pattern of movement in a day is: the yang energy begins to rise in the morning, reaches its peak at midday, recedes at dusk, and is stored away at midnight.

Based on the ebb and flow of Yang energy throughout the day, early morning is the best time to exercise.

Because in addition to oxygen, the gases in the atmosphere that are related to human health also include gaseous water and ozone, which is composed of three oxygen atoms.

These gases, under the influence of ultraviolet light, high-energy rays, or ultrasound, will generate various types of charged negative ions.

Negative ions can enhance the physiological functions of various systems and organs in the human body, such as improving brain function, cardiovascular function, lung capacity, reducing lactic acid content in muscles, and delaying fatigue. Therefore, they are known as "air vitamins".

However, negative ions stay in the air for a very short time and easily turn into neutral ions and disappear.

The highest concentration of negative ions occurs at sunrise and dawn, when they can be found in open fields, beaches, streamsides, canyons, forests, grasslands, and areas with waterfalls, fountains, and rapids.

Exercising in these places in the early morning can help you ingest a large number of negative ions, improve your health, and enhance blood circulation in the prostate.

The prostate gland, a reproductive organ, has a characteristic of being "active and not like to be still".

Because the internal structure of the prostate is like the road network of a city, crisscrossing and with varying widths, straight and curved roads, and its structure is also like a river or lake, with branches and tributaries, the fluid secreted by the prostate cannot stay in one place all the time. It has its own internal driving force, but also needs external forces to enhance circulation.

Therefore, the prostate needs exercise to maintain its health.

**Hip Impact Exercise**

During morning exercise, use a large tree or building wall as a support for impact, face away from the object, and use your buttocks to impact. The impact speed should be once every 2 to 3 seconds. You should feel a vibration in your buttocks with each impact. Gradually increase the number of impacts, 30 to 50 each time, and there is no limit to the number of times you can exercise.

Hip impact activities can promote blood circulation in the prostate.

**Hiking**

When climbing a mountain, leaning forward on the way up and leaning backward on the way down helps with blood circulation in the waist, hips, and prostate area.

In the absence of mountains, climb stairs instead of mountains, repeatedly going up and down stairs.

The speed and intensity of exercise should be moderate, such as when you feel neither tired nor short of breath, and when you are slightly sweaty.

**Avoid pressure on the perineal area**

Avoid prolonged sitting or sitting on soft chairs to prevent pressure on the perineum and protect blood circulation to the prostate.

Two types of people are prone to prostatitis: professional motorcyclists and car drivers.

The reason for this is that their perineal area is frequently subjected to pressure, which affects blood flow to the prostate, causing the prostate tissue to be in a state of congestion and blood stasis.

People who frequently ride bicycles and those who work in sedentary jobs are also prone to prostatitis. Avoid long-distance cycling and developing a habit of not sitting for long periods.

After sitting for about an hour, stand up and do some hip-shaking and buttock-bouncing exercises to improve blood circulation to the prostate.

**Prostate Health Exercises**

Appropriate and orderly physical exercise can not only strengthen the body, but also improve the prostate's ability to resist disease, improve blood circulation, reduce local congestion, and enhance the prostate's immune function.

Practice has shown that physical exercise has certain health benefits for the prostate.

**Section 1:** Lie on your back with your legs naturally straight. Raise your hips and then lower them. Repeat 10 times.

**Section 2:** Lie on your back with your knees bent. Move your feet towards your buttocks, placing your shoulders and feet on the bed. Raise your buttocks high while inhaling deeply and contracting your anus. Lower your buttocks while relaxing and exhaling deeply. Repeat 12-20 times.

**Section 3:** Lie on your back with your legs naturally straight, and swing your waist from side to side like a fish swimming 100-200 times.

**Section 4:** Lie on your back with your legs straight, about 40 degrees off the bed. Cross your legs and abduct them 50-100 times.

**Section 5:** Lie on your back with your legs raised and perform cycling motions 50-100 times.

Section 6: Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, hands in loose fists. Rotate your waist left and right. When rotating your waist to the left, lightly tap your lower abdomen with your right fist and forearm, and lightly tap your tailbone with your left fist and forearm. When rotating your waist to the right, lightly tap your lower abdomen with your left fist and forearm, and lightly tap your tailbone with your right fist and forearm. Repeat this 20 times.