The best practice time for "rookies"

Choosing a suitable yoga practice time will not only allow beginners to practice more, but also speed up the progress of intermediate and senior practitioners.

You are a yoga novice

Many beginners have a headache choosing a suitable time for yoga practice and regard it as a resistance to practicing. In fact, as long as your physical and mental condition permits, there is no time limit for yoga practice. You can practice it at any time of the day when you feel convenient. The key is to persevere.

Office workers working from 9 to 5-make full and reasonable use of scattered time

You are a nine-to-five office worker, and sometimes you have trouble working overtime. You have very little free time from Monday to Friday. You may think that adhering to yoga is simply a fantasy. In fact, if we can make full and reasonable use of scattered time, we can completely turn the impossible into reality.

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Use 10 to 15 minutes to practice yoga breathing and meditation before getting up early in the morning and going to sleep at night; use yoga positions to move your head, neck, and shoulders before lunch and during afternoon tea work breaks, and use tables and chairs to do some in-situ twisting and stretching. In addition, give up the habit of staying in bed on weekend mornings, and early morning yoga practice can give you an energetic start to your weekend life; regularly participating in weekend yoga classes will make your life healthy and fulfilling, and these good feelings will Strengthen your determination and confidence to persist in practicing.

The SOHO family in the sky--the practice time is unstoppable

You are a freelancer who arranges your own working hours, so irregular schedules may be the biggest obstacle to your yoga practice. In this case, you need to set yourself an unshakable practice time.

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It's best to do it before 8 a.m., when you are generally unlikely to accept a new job, so your attention is not easily disturbed and you can focus on practice. This regular practice can free you from your messy and disorderly life and develop good habits of working and resting on time. As a result, physical and mental health has improved, and it has become a matter of course to practice. Of course, in addition to regular morning self-practice, you can also take yoga classes 2 to 3 times a week based on your time to improve your self-practice level.

Full-time housewife at home-alternating self-practice and yoga classes between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

The focus of your life is entirely on your children, husband and housework. Family and endless housework inadvertently become resistance to your persistence in yoga practice-preparing breakfast early in the morning and sending your child's husband to school and work make it impossible for you to allocate your time and energy to yoga practice, and you may still want to pick up your children from school or purchase household expenses around 4 p.m.

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For you, alternating self-practice and yoga classes between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. can inject a sense of freshness and fulfillment into your unchanging home life, and allow you to achieve more balance in life and psychology. These experiences will also become your motivation to persist in yoga practice.

An upgraded version of yoga for intermediate and advanced practitioners

For intermediate and advanced practitioners, it is extremely necessary to choose early morning as the fixed practice time every day. At the beginning of the day, our spirits are awake and undisturbed. At this time, you are most likely to deeply appreciate the connection and coordination of the body, mind and spirit, as well as the charm of yoga as an "art of the body and mind." As you accumulate day by day, you will quickly realize your progress.

If you want to improve faster, you need to take yoga classes at the right level 2 to 3 times a week. First determine what areas you most want to improve in, and then choose the right practice time based on the changes in your physical and mental condition throughout the day. For example, if you want to strengthen arm strength or improve balance, then morning exercises will get the best results; if you want to open your hip joint or improve flexibility, then choosing yoga classes after the evening will be more effective, because people's flexibility is much better at night than in the morning after a day of activity; breathing and meditation exercises can be done at any time, but getting up in the morning and practicing before going to bed at night will give you a refreshing start and a relaxing and comfortable sleep.

Understand the digestion time of food

How long you can practice after eating depends on the type of food you eat.

Digestion times for different types of foods

Fruit: 30 minutes to 1 hour, melon fruits such as watermelon are the shortest, and bananas are the longest.

Vegetables: 45 minutes to 2 hours, melon vegetables such as wax gourd are the shortest, followed by nightshade vegetables such as tomato and eggplant, followed by leaf vegetables such as spinach, pakchoi and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli. The longest digestion time is root vegetables such as sweet potatoes and taro

Cereals: 1 hour, 30 minutes to 3 hours. Liquid or semi-liquid cereal foods such as porridge have a shorter digestion time. Fermented foods without added fat, such as steamed buns and non-fat bread, are also easier to digest.

Protein: 1 hour, 30 minutes to 4 hours. Liquid protein foods such as milk and soy milk are easier to digest, while it takes 4 hours or more to fully digest protein-rich meats such as beef and chicken.

Fat: 2 to 4 hours, but we rarely consume fat alone, usually with vegetables or grains. Eating fat together with grains or protein foods will prolong its digestion time, so foods like cakes that contain a large amount of oil, protein and carbohydrates will place a large burden on the stomach and take about 3 to 4 hours to fully digest.

Yoga does not have to be practiced when you are hungry. When you are too hungry, your blood sugar level drops sharply, which is not conducive to practice. It is more appropriate to practice when you are half full. If you only ate fruits or easily digestible vegetables or only drank some porridge an hour before practice, you don't have to give up practicing because of them. (Internship Editor: Li Jianhong)