Surprise! Yoga was originally for men

Why do men practice yoga?

If you haven't experienced staying up late after the age of 30, climbing a mountain after work, and having a short circuit in your boudoir during the bottleneck period of your career, you can skip this topic completely.

Men's rules of the game make their health problems more prominent. Society's requirements for men are relatively one-way: control the world. Therefore, men are only allowed to express their success. Therefore, when faced with pressure, men have few channels for venting and often ignore their physical condition until blood pressure rises and heart problems occur. Chronic stress is 6 times more likely to cause heart disease and cancer than risk factors such as smoking and high cholesterol; moreover, middle-aged people have difficulty controlling their emotional stress, and the chance of dying rises from 15% to 50%.

When your body is not in your control, what is the point of controlling the world?

Yoga is about teaching you to control your body.

The word Yoga, which comes from the Indian Sanskrit words yug or yuj, is a pronunciation that means "unity","combination" or "harmony". Yoga postures adjust breathing consciously, use postures to adjust the balance of the body, and stimulate the body's own energy through relaxation to promote health. Its ultimate goal is to be able to control itself and control the physical senses. Ancient yoga believers believed that by exercising the body and regulating breathing, they could completely control their minds and emotions, as well as maintain a permanently healthy body.

Yoga postures include stretching, strength, endurance and exercises to strengthen cardiopulmonary function. For many people who have some experience in practicing yoga, the most directly perceived effect is that yoga alleviates many sub-health states caused by busy work: decreased immunity, physical weakness, and sometimes psychological frustration, muscle tension, spinal pain, fatigue, shortness of breath and even memory loss. We even learned from Kama Yoga in Pudong, Shanghai that when many men practice yoga, they find that the flexibility and balance of yoga are of great benefit to improving their golf skills. As the postures of yoga practice gradually increase the difficulty, many movements that require arm support also make it difficult to practice. a href="http://baike.39.net/2000-2800-2804-91/" target="_blank" > Do not hesitate?/ P>

Scientific and clinical research has proven that yoga does have a positive impact on health.

Yoga is a kind of training that relies on consciousness to adjust breathing, achieve body balance with body posture, and restore the body's ability to self-heal. An experiment supported by the U.S. Department of Health's Center for Assistive Therapy found that yoga improves fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis and outperforms other exercises. The deep breathing of yoga helps focus attention; complete and balanced contraction and extension movements can train the elasticity of the whole body's muscles and joints, which is an effect that cannot be achieved by a single exercise such as walking or riding a bicycle.

Researchers have concluded that the real health benefits of yoga come from relaxation. Yoga activates the body's relaxation response, slowing down heartbeat and breathing, and returning blood pressure to normal.

The American Journal of the Endocrinology Society also pointed out that as long as 50 minutes of yoga class can reduce stress hormones in the body. Colombia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York provides meditation and yoga classes to all patients after heart surgery to assist them in recovery.

Yoga, which reduces stress and anxiety, can also help control pain. A 1994 study published in the journal Rheumatology and Joint Medicine showed that practicing yoga can reduce finger pain and tightness during exercise in patients with osteoarthritis of the hand.

Yoga can also help soothe emotions. In 1997, the San Francisco Prison in the United States launched a Resolute to stop the violence project targeting robbers and addicts. It used yoga and drama treatment to help criminals calm down and find out the reasons for their aggressive crimes. Harvard University research found that 80% of prison inmates spent more than four months in such a program reduced their chances of reoffending. In addition, in Europe and the United States, yoga is used as a late rehabilitation aid for mental patients.

Mr. Zhang, who is over his 40s, is one of the few men who practice yoga. Because he suffered from waist and cervical spine diseases, others told him that practicing yoga could improve his condition, so he started practicing yoga. When he first entered the gym, he was a little embarrassed to see women everywhere. However, after making a rational exploration of yoga, he discovered that this fitness technique popular among women was originally a tantric technique in Indian Buddhism. It was purely a man's technique, so he practiced it all the way with relief. Today, Mr. Zhang's problems are indeed much better. Whenever someone says that yoga is a woman's sport, he always refutes: yoga originally belongs to men. (Internship Editor: Li Jianhong)