Jul 31 2008
Yoga Exercises
For a yoga exercise program to achieve and maintain ideal weight and shape, two basic components need to be included. There needs to be an aerobic component promoting fitness of the heart muscle and healthy metabolic rate. You also need yoga exercises designed to promote overall body tone. This involves building strength and increasing flexibility in a balanced way, involving all body parts, and improving posture.
Running, walking and many sporting activities work certain body parts more than others and can, over time, lead to imbalance, and limit range of motion of certain joints. This can detract from healthy posture and reduce the feeling of well-being, energy levels.
and health.
Yoga poses and exercises are one of the few systems that offers such an all round work-out. It can be used alone, or In conjunction with other activities; for improved performance at the sport of your choice; for general improvement in health; and for achieving and maintaining a balanced, comfortable posture.
Yoga also reduces your risk of injury due to incorrect posture, movement or use of the body - whether in sport or daily activities.
Physical Fitness And Healthy Bones
Bones are alive and, like muscles, require regular weight-bearing exercise to remain healthy and strong.
The force of gravity helps to maintain bone density and health. The kind of exercise required should involve the pull of working muscles on bones in a variety of ways, for brief periods of time. Yoga is designed to address this, helping increase bone density, supporting healthy bones and skeletal structure.
Yoga exercises also allow for posture and movement to place the least amount of stress and strain on the bones of the body. In this way, the skeleton is free to carry out its function optimally, of forming and maintaining the basic structure of the body.
Fitness And Metabolism
Metabolism is a function of the endocrine system, mainly regulated by the thyroid gland, which is located in the neck. The metabolic rate is the rate at which chemical reactions occur in every cell of the body, converting food and oxygen into energy. Metabolism also plays a role in determining whether food is converted into energy or stored as fat. In a balanced system, metabolism maintains an energy-efficient body.
Regular yoga exercises and a healthy eating pattern promote metabolic health. Metabolism is also affected by emotions: speeding up or slowing down depending on how we feel.
How Yoga Exercises Promotes A Healthy Metabolism
Yoga can help speed up a slow metabolism, or help to calm and slowdown a fast metabolism.
Any Yoga posture that involves the neck, such as neck rolls and the shoulder stand, will tone the thyroid gland.
Physical fitness, in general, however achieved, will promote metabolic health.
Meditation and consistent Yoga posture practice can assist with mastery over the mind and emotions that influence metabolic rate.
How Yoga Can Help Reduce Fat Deposits
Yoga postures and posture combinations are designed to break down layers of excess fat deposits by squeezing, stretching and twisting the body. At the same time postures improve circulation to and from fatty tissue. The Yoga can also be used by slim people for general toning, health and weight maintenance.
Cardiovascular exercise aids a healthy metabolism, which assists in fat loss. Multiple, continuous repetitions of yoga exercises will serve the purpose. Or you can do aerobic exercise such as walking, running and swimming, in addition to Yoga.
The fire breath, as used for slimming and toning the waistline, has the effect of speeding up metabolism, increasing the rate at which fat is broken down in the body. It also can lead to improved circulation in general and improved skin tone.
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