Yoga helps you to improve your body's performance, and it also helps you lose weight by burning some calories while practicing it. Many girls prefer losing weight through yoga because it’s not as tiring as aerobics. In this article, we’ll learn about ways to lose weight and get a healthy body.
Yoga and mindfulness
Yoga contributes to improving mental abilities and mood, andwhen your mood is good, you avoid emotional eating, the craving feeling that comes with a bad mood. Yoga also improves digestion, helping you tell the difference between healthy food that soothes your stomach, and unhealthy food that upsets it.
You shouldn't eat heavy meals before or after doing yoga, so yoga makes you eat two healthy meals in your diet, which helps improve your overall health.
Yoga and better sleep
One of the most important factors for losing weight is taking care of your sleep, And all personal trainers advise the importance of sleeping more than six hours to lose weight healthily, and enjoy a healthy body. A healthy body affects your hair and skin, and keeps you from facing the negative effects of diets like hair loss, pale face, feeling sluggish, lazy, and unfocused.
Yoga and fat burning
Yoga doesn’t burn calories like aerobics and weightlifting, andBut there are some poses that also burn a lot of calories, Types that help burn calories like power yoga and vinyasa yoga. These types keep you moving constantly, making your body a calorie-burning machine while building muscle mass.
They help improve your diet and eating habits because they calm you down and clear your mind during emotional moments.
How often should you do yoga to lose weight?
You can do yoga as much as possible, and switch between different yoga programs like: Yin, Hatha, restorative yoga, If you're a beginner, start with some easy poses to avoid injuries and sprains. You can also join us for follow-up so you get all yoga exercises perfectly to achieve a healthy weight and body. You can check subscription details and prices by contacting us through our Facebook page.
To guarantee ideal weight and a lean, flexible body, you can combine yoga with swimming, cycling, dancing, or other cardio exercises.
Yoga poses you can practice at home
There are some poses you can do at home if you don't have time for a full session, and they are:
1- sun salutations
You can do this pose 10 times at least to get a good result, increasing the time in the pose and staying still longer in the exercise.
How to do it:
Stand and breathe in with your arms up, then bend your waist and look down, then step back and lower to the ground, lie down, do this pose for about more than five minutes, stretch your whole body then put your hands under your shoulders and get ready to stand again, lift your chest first like cobra pose, then return to standing.
Don't forget to breathe in and out calmly, do this exercise for 5 minutes for best results
2- boat pose
This pose has many benefits beyond burning calories, it helps control breathing and reduce stress, so you should do it regularly or whenever you feel more stressed.
How to perform
Sit on the floor, bend one foot in front of you, stretch your hand so it's parallel to the floor, then lift your other foot to be parallel to the floor. Hold this position for 30 seconds, then repeat 5 times.
3- plank pose
Plank exercises are very useful in all their forms because they help shape the body, burn fat a lot and increase body agility.
How to perform
Here we explain one of the plank exercises:
Get on the table position where your arms lift your body off the ground, with your hands directly under your shoulders, knees on the floor and your back straight and parallel to the floor. Start by stretching one leg back and then the other. Hold this position for a minute, then return to the start. You should keep all your body muscles tight: arms, abs, back, and legs.
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