After 2 days of using an inversion table I started to get really excited about the therapy/training and how I was feeling. I basically couldn’t wait to invert again on day 3. However, I finally ran into one issue that I have with inversion therapy – congestion.
After fully inverting on day 2 I was completely ready to do the same on day 3, and I was going to incorporate slightly swinging back and forth into the routine to better stretch my hips and lower back areas. However, I didn’t realize how hard it is to hang upside down while congested and stuffed up. Even though I felt fairly comfortable on my Teeter F7000S inversion table, I still didn’t want to go fully inverted without having about 2 minutes to allow my body to slowly adjust to the change. It was in those two minutes that I realized this was not going to be as easy as it was the previous two days.
I found it much more difficult to breath while congested and hanging upside down, and I may have decided to skip the day except for the fact that I felt so great after my first two days (in other words I was very lucky this didn’t happen to me on day one). So I powered through it – breathing slowly and only out of my mouth I fully inverted and hung for a total of 5 minutes. While this was a little bit less than what I wanted to do, I was glad I at least got five minutes of inversion table use in.
Summary
Basically, when I was asking people how to us an inversion table it had never even occurred to me that being congested would affect you, but it does. However, don’t let that stop you – it really isn’t that hard to get through. Afterward you will feel great, relaxed, stretched out, and possibly even a little less congested (I know I did for some reason, it was a great side-effect of inversion table use, at least that one day).
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