12-18-2009, 12:54 AM
How Yoga can help overweight individuals to reduce weight is discussed live on video media of almost all the channels and has become a talk of the town at all places ranging from a small town to metropolitan towns. After the early morning featured yoga program ends, there is conversation among friends on phone and is also without any hesitation is discussed at any gathering in the park or at a religious place. So much is the importance and need of reducing weight by yoga.
Having seen the live yoga session still there is a personal question, doing yoga to reduce weight, how far shall help me? There is no doubt one feels good and de-stressed. Body develops muscular strength with increased flexibility with marked reduction of weight.
Setting Goal for Weight Reduction:
To achieve the set goal of weight reduction specific yoga exercise is to be selected again depending on ones ability to perform easily such an exercise. There is need to increase frequency of the yoga exercise with gradual increase in the duration of pose. The yoga exercise started should be maintained during the period of weight reduction.
Role of Health Food in Weight Reduction:
Besides doing yoga to reduce weight, one should make a habit of eating healthy food and after a warm up should perform yoga exercises, which shall help in burning calories and at the same time cause increase in the heart rate regularly. The selected yoga exercise should provide a resting phase between each exercise.
It is necessary to learn yoga exercises, which one performs and spare more than one and half hour thrice a week. Combination of running or aerobic exercises with yoga is more useful for achieving fast weight reduction goal.
Selecting a Yoga Exercise:
Vinyasa yoga: It is an exercise commonly known as flow yoga and is the right exercise for affecting weight reduction. It in reality is a combination of many poses namely Sun salutation, which causes lot of sweating and is popular among athletes.
Ashtanga Yoga: It is done at a very vigorous pace, the practice of which is followed by clear benefits to the persons who want to lose weight. Ashtanga is practiced by highly committed persons. The initiation of this exercise should be learned at local classes or online help video CD instructions available. Once the right pose is learned it can be easily included in yoga at home sessions.
Power Yoga: It has high popularity due to presence of vigorous activity and is an excellent work out involving cardio vascular toning responsible for weight reduction doing yoga.
It is a form of vinyasa yoga described above performed in a hot room environment and results in profuse sweating. A person who is extensively overweight, should start at the beginning level yoga and should increase other yoga exercises and finally hot yoga for enhanced effect of weight reduction through yoga. (Reference: yoga.about.com/od/bikramyogahotyoga/a/bikram.htm)
Home Yoga Workout:
For doing yoga to reduce weight, it is necessary that if one can not attend yoga class on a particular day, the work out should be performed at home by viewing the video recorded instructions. The same can also be done by persons not in a position to join a class. They should receive counseling from friends or online forums, which give an encouragement. One can plan one’s own schedule of yoga workouts considering the basics of yoga.
Contributions: Thanks to Mr. Jagmohan.
Having seen the live yoga session still there is a personal question, doing yoga to reduce weight, how far shall help me? There is no doubt one feels good and de-stressed. Body develops muscular strength with increased flexibility with marked reduction of weight.
Setting Goal for Weight Reduction:
To achieve the set goal of weight reduction specific yoga exercise is to be selected again depending on ones ability to perform easily such an exercise. There is need to increase frequency of the yoga exercise with gradual increase in the duration of pose. The yoga exercise started should be maintained during the period of weight reduction.
Role of Health Food in Weight Reduction:
Besides doing yoga to reduce weight, one should make a habit of eating healthy food and after a warm up should perform yoga exercises, which shall help in burning calories and at the same time cause increase in the heart rate regularly. The selected yoga exercise should provide a resting phase between each exercise.
It is necessary to learn yoga exercises, which one performs and spare more than one and half hour thrice a week. Combination of running or aerobic exercises with yoga is more useful for achieving fast weight reduction goal.
Selecting a Yoga Exercise:
Vinyasa yoga: It is an exercise commonly known as flow yoga and is the right exercise for affecting weight reduction. It in reality is a combination of many poses namely Sun salutation, which causes lot of sweating and is popular among athletes.
Ashtanga Yoga: It is done at a very vigorous pace, the practice of which is followed by clear benefits to the persons who want to lose weight. Ashtanga is practiced by highly committed persons. The initiation of this exercise should be learned at local classes or online help video CD instructions available. Once the right pose is learned it can be easily included in yoga at home sessions.
Power Yoga: It has high popularity due to presence of vigorous activity and is an excellent work out involving cardio vascular toning responsible for weight reduction doing yoga.
It is a form of vinyasa yoga described above performed in a hot room environment and results in profuse sweating. A person who is extensively overweight, should start at the beginning level yoga and should increase other yoga exercises and finally hot yoga for enhanced effect of weight reduction through yoga. (Reference: yoga.about.com/od/bikramyogahotyoga/a/bikram.htm)
Home Yoga Workout:
For doing yoga to reduce weight, it is necessary that if one can not attend yoga class on a particular day, the work out should be performed at home by viewing the video recorded instructions. The same can also be done by persons not in a position to join a class. They should receive counseling from friends or online forums, which give an encouragement. One can plan one’s own schedule of yoga workouts considering the basics of yoga.
Contributions: Thanks to Mr. Jagmohan.