Weight Loss Tip #12 – Include yoga in your fitness regime

Along with cardio exercises and weight training, you should also include yoga in your fitness regime. The various yoga asanas will help tone the various muscles in your body, and also help keep your mind calm. Also, performing these asanas right after your weight training will help stretch your muscles and prevent muscle soreness.

Some of the asanas that you can do in order to lose weight are – ardha chandraasana, veerbhadrasana, utkatasana, vrksasana, uttanasana, ardha matsyendrasana, etc. Veerbhadrasana for example is an excellent way to burn fat around your mid section. Badhakonasana can help burn fat around your thighs. Read more about how you can do these various yoga poses.

You can also try doing surya namaskar every day in the morning.  It is a combination of backward and forward bending asanas that help detoxify your body through copious amounts of oxygenation.

According to Mamta Arora, Yoga Sadhak and instructor, who runs the Yoga Blessing studio, ‘Yoga has innumerable benefits that physical exercise does not. It leads a person from darkness to light, ignorance to knowledge and makes a person feel complete. It also increases productivity, improves immunity, enhances clarity and heightens self-awareness.’

 

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