Can practicing yoga help you lose weight?

The main role of yoga is to reduce stress, adjust and coordinate physical and mental health. Modern professional women tend to live busy lives and have no time to exercise, so some people may want to use yoga to adjust their physical and mental health. Practicing yoga can lose weight, but it is only an auxiliary means to lose weight. Controlling diet and aerobic and anaerobic exercise are the main methods to lose weight.

Weight loss mainly depends on consuming calories. The most effective means to lose weight still requires scientific control of diet and effective exercise. Therefore, unless it is some special yoga practices such as thermal yoga, it is difficult to achieve the goal of losing weight in the short term by practicing yoga. Many people do not lose too much weight after practicing yoga, but their body composition and structure are better than before. This is the ultimate goal of yoga to lose weight.

Compared with aerobic exercise, practicing yoga is slower to lose weight because it burns relatively less calories. However, slow weight loss does not mean that it is ineffective.

Aerobic fitness exercise is of high intensity and can strengthen muscle exercise. Weight loss is naturally rapid, but it is not suitable for older people. Yoga is suitable for people of any age. In addition to losing weight, it can also mentally change their attitude towards life, thereby enhancing the vitality of life.

Warm reminder:

1. Yoga itself is an exercise that requires muscle strength. For thin women, thin muscles can easily be strained. Doctors instead suggest that some women who are too thin should go through some basic strength training before practicing yoga.

2. Yoga can indeed lose weight, but the reasons for everyone's obesity vary widely, so the first step is to understand the reason for your obesity. Is it inheritance or disease? Second, weight loss is only a small part of yoga. It is really a kind of recuperation, and then it becomes a habit and becomes a lifestyle. How happy it is to have a peaceful mind, extraordinary spirit, and a healthy body.

Many people are not suitable for practicing difficult yoga movements

1. Patients with high blood pressure and heart disease: Not suitable for handstands and wheeled movements. When you stand head-down and do wheeled movements, blood will flow backwards, which may easily cause insufficient blood supply to the heart and brain, ischemia, and lead to shock.

2. Disc herniation, spondylolisthesis: Not suitable for forward bending movements such as Japanese salutation and wide-angle pose. Among the most basic movements of yoga,"Sun Prayer" is one of them. Practitioners must bend their waist downward. At this time, people with spondylolisthesis may cause the spine to slip again due to such movements; People with herniated discs may also cause more severe nerve compression in their lower limbs due to inadvertent bending.

3. Osteoporosis patients: Not suitable for hoe movements. Some yoga movements must use limbs such as hands or feet to support the weight of the body. If you have osteoporosis, you can easily break bones. Hoe movements are even more taboo for patients with osteoporosis.

In addition, if you develop joint pain or tendon inflammation after each time you practice yoga, your body may not be flexible enough to make it difficult for yoga movements.