Yoga: A slimming exercise from the inside out

Yoga and Weight Loss

When the ancient yoga and fitness became "popular" in modern cities, people seemed to have found the best way to balance their body and mind in their busy life: its stretching, its breathing, and its meditation can make people deeply appreciate the joy and joy of unity of body and mind.

In the United States, where yoga developed early, according to professional surveys, yoga practice can be very effective in helping burn excess calories in the body and eliminate obesity.

Correct posture to lose weight

Yoga achieves the purpose of losing weight through the head, body and heart. Yoga practice can also adjust the human body's endocrine system while losing weight. Even beginners to yoga can easily understand the pertinence and effectiveness of yoga to lose weight. The practice method of yoga postures fully reflects its pertinence. Yoga postures practice includes three parts: posture, breathing and meditation. It is not a simple stretching exercise. When people practice a specific yoga posture, they need to concentrate their consciousness on the place where the body is stretched and squeezed, that is, the certain part of the body where the yoga posture has an effect on the body, and then feel this through breathing and meditation. Part, and even imagine that this part is achieving the effect of slimming and losing weight.

Various stretching movements in yoga postures, such as the mountain Tadasana pose with the arms raised, are very simple, but they can lengthen the muscles on both sides of the body and accelerate their blood circulation, burning fat.

The movement of the body bending forward and leaning back can accelerate blood circulation throughout the body and stimulate the front and back parts of the body where fat is easy to accumulate from the inside out, such as the waist, buttocks and legs.

The twisting posture can also be very effective in reducing local fat in the body, helping to eliminate the accumulation of fat around the internal organs and maintain their normal function.

The inverted posture is also the best choice and favorite posture for practitioners to eliminate excess body fat.

Conscious weight loss

Many studies have shown that human consciousness can accelerate the burning of calories in the body and effectively enhance the function and effect of weight loss. The breathing practice in yoga practice best reflects the uniqueness of yoga to lose weight: every kind of yoga breath can very completely affect the internal organs of the body through the diaphragm: imagine the body is like a balloon, and the diaphragm sinks when you inhale. Massage to the abdominal internal organs; When exhaling, the diaphragm moves upwards and massages the chest internal organs. This can strengthen the function of the entire internal organs system. The breathing and breathing movements can give good exercise to the abdominal muscles. Many practitioners can eliminate excess fat in the waist and abdomen through breathing exercises. Of course, if you can achieve safe and effective practice results, you must find an experienced yoga teacher to learn the correct yoga breathing method. Because incorrect breathing methods can cause pressure on the body, affect the effect of weight loss, and even have side effects.

Yoga with obvious weight loss effect

With the development of modern yoga, more and more forms of yoga have emerged, which are more suitable for the lifestyle and requirements of modern people. You can choose the form of yoga practice according to your own requirements and physical conditions. You can recommend such as: Hot yoga and power yoga, which are developed from the Hatha system and the Ashtanga system, which are now very popular. Yoga that can achieve good weight loss results.

Hot yoga is practiced in classrooms with temperatures between 37 degrees and 43 degrees. Practitioners will sweat a lot and breathe yoga during practice. Its detoxification and weight loss effects are important factors that attract many practitioners.

Power yoga and a series of scientifically matched Vinyasa exercises are the best way to practice weight loss and shape good body lines after losing weight. Therefore, yoga is a fitness technique that can "sculpt" the body lines during the process of losing weight. Among the many yoga practice methods, you can choose the practice form based on your physical condition and consult your instructor.

The unique features of yoga to lose weight

Many people think that obesity is caused by eating too much, so using dieting to lose weight often fails to achieve satisfactory results. In fact, mental stress and endocrine system disorders can also lead to obesity. One of the biggest physiological functions of yoga is that it can regulate the human endocrine system through practice. When the body's endocrine system adjusts the balance, mental stress will also be reduced, and the overeating caused by this cause will disappear.

Yoga advocates healthy and natural living habits and a light and healthy vegetarian diet, but it is not a mandatory restriction, and you don't have to deliberately implement it. You will find that as you practice yoga for a while, your diet structure will also As you slowly change, you will become more and more interested in the pleasant foods advocated by yoga. These foods have less fat, fewer calories, delicious and light, and often make people feel relaxed physically and mentally. You can reduce the intake of high-calorie, high-fat foods and gradually achieve the goal of losing weight.

In addition, fasting in yoga diet is different from dieting in the general sense. Ordinary people can implement a simple and safe "one-day fasting". You can choose one day in a week or a month and only drink water or juice. Use this method to clean up the garbage in your body and achieve the goal of healthy body and mind. But it is worth reminding that yoga's fasting method does not allow people to achieve the ultimate goal of weight loss. It is just a method in the yoga diet structure. Changing the diet structure can achieve the goal of weight loss and change people's lifestyle. If you have a healthy lifestyle, you will definitely have a healthy mentality and body. (Editor in charge: Li Yiqian)