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