Water yoga detoxification and slimming

Water yoga is an innovative exercise that cleverly combines the basic principles of water exercise with some familiar yoga postures. At present, tens of thousands of people in the United States are keen on water yoga, and many swimming pools in Japan have also opened water yoga fitness programs, but they are still in their infancy in China.

The water depth is 1 to 1.2 meters for yoga in the water

Yoga emphasizes the mastery of posture, rhythm and exhalation, especially in the mastery of breathing techniques, which is quite similar to swimming. The biggest difference between practicing yoga in water and yoga on land in postures is that in addition to mastering the body, practicing yoga in water also requires an understanding of how the body gets along with the water.

Water yoga can make full use of the resistance and buoyancy characteristics of water. Through the resistance of water, one can exercise one's strength and endurance and create a perfect body; through the buoyancy of water, one can exercise one's flexibility and reduce sports injuries. It is applicable to many people.

TIPS: Yoga in the water: The water depth should not exceed the abdomen. The water depth of 1 to 1.2 meters is more suitable, among which there are more standing movements.

If you can persist in doing water yoga for a long time, you can not only adjust the body's posture and physiological curvature of the spine, but also make the entire body develop into a streamlined shape. This adaptability and variability shapes the person's beautiful lines, especially on the abdomen, feet, buttocks, The shaping of chest, shoulders and back curves.

Posture 1: Half Moon Posture

Standing, inhale and lift your right leg while lifting your right arm, and exhale to the left side of your head and the right side. Do the other side the same way. Hold for three seconds

Efficacy: Half moon pose reduces excess fat on the side waist, beautifies the lines of legs and arms, and strengthens the weight of legs.

Asana 2: Stretch one leg and back

- Stand with your low back pain straight, focus on your right leg, lift your left leg and place it on the steps, inhale and lift your arms to the top of your head, exhale forward and downward, and use your upper body to stick to your left leg as much as possible. Do the same for the right leg. Hold for three seconds.

Efficacy: Balance the body and stretch the spine and ankles. Promote digestion and benefit the lower body.

Note: Stretch your knees and keep your back upright.

Style 3: Tree Style

Start in the basic standing stance, that is, with your feet together, your palms facing inward, and your arms close to the outside of the left and right thighs, then lift your right heel to the groin and upper half of the thighs, with your right toe down, and place your right leg firmly on or on your thighs, while balancing your left leg and standing on your knees, holding your palms together, with your arms straight, and holding them high above your head. Hold for 30-60 seconds.

Efficacy: Beautify the lines of arms, prevent chest sagging, and improve people's concentration.

Key points: Push hard on your abdomen and legs.

Note: Keep breathing naturally, arms back, ears behind.

Asana 4: Warrior 2

Basically standing. Exhale deeply with your feet as big as your shoulders, lift your arms horizontally to both sides, parallel to the ground, straighten your left knee, turn your right foot 90 degrees to the right, and turn your left foot 15-30 degrees in the same direction, not more than 30 degrees. Bend your right knee until the thighs are parallel to the ground, and the calves are perpendicular to the floor and thighs, then stretch your hands as far as possible to the sides, turn your head to the right, and look at the tips of your right fingers while breathing deeply, while stretching the muscles on the back of your left calf as much as possible. Hold for 30 seconds. repeatedly

Efficacy: It can make leg muscles flexible and reduce spasms in this area.

Note: Tighten all intramuscularly.

Asana 5: Standing latch pose (side waist pose)

- Put your left leg on the steps, grab your left leg with your left arm, inhale and lift your right arm above your head, exhale and bring your body to your left leg, and place your right hand on your left hand.

Efficacy: Stimulate blood circulation in massage liver and spleen, correct poor back posture.

Note: Ribs turned up.

Six major effects of water yoga

1. Eliminate fatigue: Combined with abdominal breathing, you can use water pressure to massage, squeeze, and rub internal organs, glands, skin, muscles, and bones to achieve the effect of relaxing the muscles and bones of the whole body and eliminating fatigue.

2. Improve attention: It can help us learn to relax and concentrate, and it is also very helpful for training to strengthen balance; if the human body wants to surface, it must be completely relaxed, so for beginners, it is the most difficult point at the beginning. The point is the word "relax".

3. Strengthen cardiopulmonary function: It can strengthen training for muscle strength, muscle endurance and cardiopulmonary function; activities in water require double calories than on land. It can not only consume excess fat, contract muscles and build your body, but also strengthen cardiopulmonary function and increase the transportation of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and blood.

4, massage, skin care: because the water movement is relatively less sweating, reducing the stimulation of the salt in the sweat after land training.

5, weight loss: water exercise in the form of aerobic energy consumption, mainly glycogen fat energy. Therefore, in this exercise at the same time with scientific nutrition diet plan, to regulate the body fat metabolism, reduce body fat has a very significant effect.

6. Shaping: After exercise in water, due to the stimulation of body surface heat dissipation and buoyancy pressure stimulation, the body fat distribution can be adjusted reflexively, so that it can be transferred to the skin, promote fat synthesis, form a thin fat layer, and make the body lines flexible and harmonious. (Editor in charge: Jiang Gang)