Does regular yoga really help you lose weight?

Speaking of yoga, I believe no one will feel unfamiliar with it. It is a very good way to keep fit and is deeply loved by the public. Some people have some misunderstandings about the benefits of regular yoga practice. So, can regular yoga practice really help you lose weight? What are the purposes of practicing yoga? Let’s take a look at the relevant introduction in this article below, I hope it will be helpful to you.

Legend has it that practicing yoga can help people lose weight quickly. Therefore, many people practice yoga with a utilitarian mentality, with the purpose of losing weight. This not only runs counter to the purpose of yoga to adjust the body, mind and spirit, but objectively speaking it is not very helpful for weight loss.

A research report from the American Fitness Council pointed out that general yoga training does not increase heart rate or burn calories as much as slow walking, and even action yoga is not as effective as light aerobic exercise. Experts say that yoga is a flexibility exercise that can not only improve the flexibility of the spine, but also stimulate the nervous and muscle systems, tighten excess fat in various parts of the body, make the body lines more beautiful, and is very effective in maintaining weight loss results and preventing rebound. However, practicing yoga cannot significantly reduce body weight. Practitioners can lose weight effectively only if they combine it with other weight loss exercises.

You can't practice yoga for the purpose of losing weight, but you can use yoga to maintain your figure. That's because yoga is slow to show results in maintaining a good figure. After all, the amount of exercise is not too large. If you start practicing with the purpose of losing weight, you will inevitably feel impatient because of the slow results, which goes against the idea of ​​yoga!

In addition, most people think that as long as they practice yoga postures, they are practicing yoga. In fact, this is not the case. The reason why yoga can help people maintain their figure is because yoga also has some restrictions on lifestyle and eating habits. For example: no drinking, no smoking, eat vegetarian food as much as possible, avoid meat if possible, do regular colon cleansing, and fast regularly.

Reasonable and healthy eating and living habits plus gentle exercise of yoga postures! All of these together are the content of yoga, and all of this serves only one purpose, which is freedom of mind.

Although hot yoga movements can theoretically help with weight loss, if your daily eating habits are not adjusted and you continue to consume high-calorie, high-fat foods, then achieving your desire to lose weight will inevitably be a difficult task. "But the detoxification effect of hot yoga is better than that of normal temperature."

The above is an introduction to whether practicing yoga can really help you lose weight. From this we can see that although practicing yoga has a certain effect on maintaining a good figure, the most important thing is to control your diet reasonably. In life, we should try to keep our diet light and reasonable, and avoid the intake of high-calorie foods, which will effectively reduce fat accumulation.