Tips for summer holidays in June

In June, even in the middle zone, the bathing season opens. The temperature of air and water allows you to sunbathe on the shore and swim in a river, lake or pond. It is important that solar-water procedures bring only benefit to the body, and no harm! Our tips for summer holidays in June will bring you benefits and valuable recommendations.

Important

Pay attention to the quality of water. Do not bathe in dirty bodies of water with littered beaches.


Protection against seizures

In the summer, physical activity usually increases, which in untrained people can cause convulsions of the calf muscles. They are especially dangerous in case of overfatigue or hypothermia during bathing.


Tip

Before the swim (bicycle or long walk) carefully massage your feet: warm up the middle and the upper part of the gastrocnemius muscle, press on the center of the popliteal pits. In the water, you can perform exercises that strengthen the chest, improving its shape.


An exercise

Standing on the shoulders in the water, put your hands on your waist and rhythmically take both elbows back, sticking out your chest. Do at least 30 times.

In June we spend more time outside the city, walking in the woods, picnicking in nature, swimming in rivers, lakes and looking for a flower of the fern in the night of Ivan Kupala. Thanks to the tips for summer holidays in June, you can bring to your life many useful recommendations.


Walking

Hiking in the forest for berries or "raids" for picnics can not only bring pleasure, but also trouble if you do not prepare for them.


We are saved from mosquitoes

To scare away annoying insects will help natural repellents - essential oils of wormwood, carnations. Apply a few drops on clothes.


Cover your head

Headgear in the forest is mandatory - here is the first rule of advice for summer holidays in June. He protects against sun and heat stroke, protects him from trauma and from ticks. For long walks, it is better to choose clothes from dense fabrics that save the skin from scorching sun rays and possible burning out. On a hot June day in the middle forest, you can meet with a snake - this month they are especially eager to bask in the sun.

When going into the forest, wear high boots and loose trousers made of dense fabric. In his hand, walking in the woods, it is useful to keep a big stick.


Learning to be friends with air conditioners

In the summer in the city or in the car we are trapped by new dangers, one of which is air conditioning. Long stay in a chilled room is fraught with a headache, a runny nose. Due to a sharp temperature drop, the body experiences a local defect or excess blood, which can lead to dizziness.

Before entering or leaving the room, alternately operate your thumbs on the active points that are on the outer surface of the wrist from the little finger, in the groove between the tendons on the middle wrist fold. They belong to the meridian of the heart. Press each point for at least a minute.


Caution

Often working under cold air flow from a fan or air conditioner, especially in a stressed position, leads to pain in the muscles of the neck.


Usefull

Eliminate the pain in the neck: with three fingers - the index, middle and nameless - of both hands, gently stroke the back of the head and, making gentle pressing movements, go down your fingers from the beginning of the hair line on the neck down and continue the line to the middle of the shoulder, repeat several times for 2 minutes.


Looking for luck

June 21 is the longest day and the shortest night of the year is the summer solstice.


Interesting

The Slavic peoples have long celebrated on June 24 a holiday of the summer solstice, or Ivan Kupala. In these long days and short, almost white nights, it has long been accepted to walk a lot, communicate with nature and sleep a little. Women and girls at dawn washed the dew, which absorbed the energy of the Sun and the strength of herbs; walked barefoot along the dew in order to increase their beauty and health. On the night of Ivan Kupala there was a fantastic tradition - to search for a blossoming fern. It is believed that it dissolves once a year and only this night. This flower to him who meets him, will help to find a treasure, bring good luck, fulfill desires. Fern itself was considered an amulet. Collected on the eve of Ivan Kupala, he was used as a talisman, bringing good luck in everything.