Yoga a Better Healthy way to reduce weight?
In today’s society carrying excess weight is becoming the normal rather than the exception. Lifestyles are increasingly sedentary, people’s diet is becoming increasingly processed and fatty food contains more and more calories, additives, and preservatives.
Children prefer television and online gaming over playing with their friends, which is perhaps a direct reflection of parents who prefer television over socializing or even making time for their children.
This only scratches the surface of the social movement towards a sedentary and unhealthy society that is making more and more people fat. There are lots of diet plans to try out to lose your weight. Yoga a better healthy way to reduce weight?. Let’s check it out.
Yoga:
It also assists us in controlling mental stress and achieving peace and clarity of mind. Yoga also has strong spiritual benefits which will see you becoming more content with yourself and more comfortable with who you are, all aspects which will lead to emotional stability.
This mental component is often neglected in a physical approach to weight loss, but it is critical and should not be overlooked. So-called “Comfort food” is a frequent problem for people who yo-yo diet(rapidly lose and gain weight) and the ability to be happy with your health and who you are reduces the need for this.
Yoga is based on deep and controlled breathing which is a method for enhancing our oxygen intake. This allows oxygen to travel to the fat cells in our body and assist in their processing. One has to ask given the benefits why more people don’t practice Yoga?
Benefits of Yoga:
Yoga improves the physical body as well as our mental health. While it is practiced by a great many people in Eastern Populations only about 2% of the population in the United States has clicked on the many benefits.
Yoga considers all the aspects that contribute to obesity – not just the physical but also the mental and spiritual reasons behind them. Regular Yoga is not only relaxing but it does bring the body back towards its ideal weight and at the same time enhance strength, flexibility, and stamina.
Yoga nuts tend to end up slim, agile, and efficient in everything they do, and what’s more, it is suitable for people of all ages.
Yoga & Weight Loss:
A more active form of Yoga, Kundalini, was introduced to America in 1969 by Yogi Bhajan. It is a more active form of Yoga combining different methods of breathing, meditation, and movement to compensate for the fact the American population has been conditioned to see exercise as requiring sweating.
A Harvard research looked at how many calories yoga may burn in adults of various body weights. According to the study, 30 minutes of Hatha yoga burnt 120 calories for someone weighing 125 pounds, 144 calories for someone weighing 155 pounds, and 168 calories for someone weighing 185 pounds.
In general, 20 minutes of yoga is sufficient for weight loss since it increases energy expenditure and calories expended. Certain yoga class components, such as Surya Namaskar, increase oxygen intake, resulting in a 150 kcal calorie expenditure.
Restorative yoga was found to be useful in helping overweight women lose weight, especially abdominal fat, in one research. These findings are particularly encouraging for persons whose weight makes more intensive yoga difficult.
Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) is another yoga technique that can assist the tone of the complete body (But only healthy people should perform this particular yoga exercise.) It’s a fantastic exercise for getting rid of thigh fat.
Yoga can also be used to resist the temptation of snacking between meals. techniques learned from yoga can be used to suppress impulses such as that we think of as hunger between meals(if you eat proper meals you cannot be hungry between them – merely bored or restless).
Yoga is not just a method of losing weight, it is a method that restores a natural balance to our body and moves us towards our natural state. This has an interesting consequence with weight. If we are overweight then yes, regular Yoga will cause us to lose weight. However, if we are at our ideal weight we will not drop weight, and if we weigh too little we will gain weight until we are at our biologically natural size.
Here’s a sample yoga schedule you could use to lose weight:
A 7-Day Yoga Workout Plan
- Monday: Vinyasa yoga, 60 minutes
- Tuesday: Hot Yoga, 60 minutes
- Wednesday: Vinyasa yoga, 60 minutes
- Thursday: Restorative Yoga, 30 to 60 minutes
- Friday: Hot Yoga, 60 minutes
- Saturday: Rest or restorative yoga
- Sunday: Rest or restorative yoga
