Are you deceiving me? This action is only for men.

If you have not experienced the anxiety of staying up late after the age of 30, have not experienced the last minute climbing a mountain after work, and have not experienced the short circuit in the boudoir during the bottleneck period of your career, you can completely skip this topic.

The rules by which men play the game make their health problems more acute. Society’s demands on men are relatively one-sided: to control the world. Therefore, men are only allowed to express their successful side, so when facing pressure, men have few channels to vent and often ignore their physical condition until their blood pressure rises and heart problems occur. Chronic stress leads to a heart disease and cancer risk that is six times higher than risk factors such as smoking and high cholesterol. In addition, middle-aged people find it difficult to control their emotional stress, and their chances of dying increase from 15% to 50%.

What's the point of controlling the world when your body is not under your control?

Yoga teaches you to control your body .

The word Yoga comes from the Indian Sanskrit word yug or yuj, which is a pronunciation and means "consistency", "combination" or "harmony". Yoga postures adjust breathing through consciousness, use postures to adjust the body's balance, and stimulate the body's own energy through relaxation to promote health. Its ultimate goal is to be able to control oneself and to master the physical senses. Ancient yogis believed that by exercising the body and regulating breathing, they could completely control the mind and emotions and maintain a healthy body forever.

Yoga poses include stretching, strength, endurance and exercises to enhance cardiopulmonary function. For many people who have some experience in practicing yoga, the most direct effect they perceive is that yoga relieves many sub-health conditions caused by busy work: decreased immunity, physical exhaustion, and sometimes psychological frustration, muscle tension, spinal pain, fatigue, shortness of breath and even memory loss. We even learned at Karma Yoga in Pudong, Shanghai that many men found that the flexibility and balance of yoga were of great benefit to improving their golf skills. As the yoga postures gradually become more difficult, many of them require arm support.

Scientific and clinical studies have proven that yoga does have a positive impact on health.

Yoga is a training method that uses consciousness to adjust breathing, achieve whole-body balance through body postures, and restore the body's self-healing ability. A trial supported by the U.S. Department of Health's National Center for Complementary Therapies found that yoga can improve fatigue in people with multiple sclerosis and is better than other exercises. The deep breathing of yoga helps to concentrate; the complete and balanced contraction and stretching movements can train the elasticity of muscles and joints throughout the body, which is an effect that cannot be achieved by single exercises such as walking or riding a bicycle.

Researchers have concluded that the real health benefits of yoga come from relaxation. Yoga activates the body's relaxation response, slowing the heart rate and breathing and returning blood pressure to normal.

The American Journal of the Endocrine Society also pointed out that just a 50-minute yoga class can reduce stress hormones in the body. Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York offers meditation and yoga classes to all post-heart surgery patients to assist them in their recovery.

Yoga, which reduces stress and anxiety, can also help manage pain. A 1994 study published in the Journal of Rheumatology and Joint Medicine showed that practicing yoga can reduce finger pain and tightness during activities in patients with hand osteoarthritis.

Yoga can also help calm your emotions. In 1997, the San Francisco Prison in the United States launched the Resolve to Stop the Violence Project, targeting robbers and addicts. It used yoga and drama therapy to help criminals calm down and identify the reasons for their aggressive crimes. A Harvard University study found that 80% of prison inmates who spent more than four months in such programs reduced their chances of reoffending. In addition, in Europe and the United States, yoga is used as an auxiliary means for the late rehabilitation of mental patients.

Mr. Zhang, who is over 40 years old, is one of the few male yoga practitioners. Because he suffered from lumbar and cervical diseases, others told him that practicing yoga could improve his condition, so he began to practice yoga. When he first entered the gym, he was a little embarrassed to see women everywhere. However, after a rational exploration of yoga, he found that this fitness technique popular among women was originally a Tantric technique of Indian Buddhism. It was purely a man's technique, so he practiced it with ease all the way. Today, Mr. Zhang's condition has indeed improved a lot. Whenever someone says that yoga is a woman's sport, he always retorts: Yoga originally belonged to men.