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Weight Loss and Yoga - Estranged Bed Partners?

By Jeanette Pollock

When you primarily want to significantly and rapidly lose weight, experts and fitness gurus attest that yoga is not the exercise of fitness regime for you.

But is there any reason why yoga would not be highly recommended for weight loss?

Actually, it is a great and amusing fact that yoga and weight loss are estranged bed partners. It is because yoga also facilitate weight loss. When someone practice or do yoga, expect that there would be a corresponding weight loss that would follow suit.

Yoga truly is not the best and recommended exercise for weight reduction purposes, but it could greatly help. It is not to be compared to the widely popular calorie-burning and cardiovascular exercises.

However, yoga also facilitate for improved agility and strength in the large and core muscle groups of the body.

Doing yoga regularly and properly is said to be equivalent to running, walking, rollerblading, swimming and cycling.

Thus, when regularly done and practiced, yoga can also lead to a significant weight loss, to the advantage of the exerciser.

Here are some yoga exercises that are so simple and are aimed at helping any person eventually lose weight in the long run. Take note that great and proper execution of each of these simple exercises are vital to the success of the weight-losing yoga practice.

FROG STAND
1. Lowly squat. Place the hands on the below ground, resting the triceps on top of the kneecaps. Then, tip forward, and lift the feet from the ground and into position similar to a balanced frog stand. Keep the position for 30 seconds.

2. Extend a leg in back, keeping it diagonally relative to the floor, at the same time elongating the neck to maintain balance.

3. Straighten the elbows, lift the legs, tip forward, then try to press up slowly into a handstand.
These exercise strengthen the whole shoulder girdle. These also help build up core muscles and enhance the body’s overall stamina.

BRIDGE
1. Lie down, faceup on the floor and then put the knees up, then feet flat and grasp ankles using the hand, drawing the heels close to the butt. Inhale, thrust the belly button up. Release the hands. Put palms up, then dig the thumbs into the tailbone and push the lumbar spine further up.

2. Move the hands palms-down near or beside each ear. Press up into a U shape inverted position.

The exercise will improve posture through strengthening the muscles along the spine. This would be very beneficial since people spend more than 90 percent of daily daytime existence in a slight and forward fold.

Do the exercises regularly or whenever you have the time to properly and orderly execute them and see the weigh loss or the difference in only just a span of a few days.

Jeanette Pollock is a regular article contributor on yoga and stress management. To learn more about yoga, please visit her website at http://www.justyogabasics.com

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