Can practicing yoga help you gain weight?

Practicing yoga in spare time is a fitness habit for many people. Proper yoga practice can not only improve your health, but also maintain good health. The health-preserving effect is very obvious. So, can practicing yoga help you gain weight in your life? What are the effective ways to gain weight? Let’s learn about it together and see how to live a healthy life.

1. Check the digestion and absorption function of the stomach and intestines. Many thin people eat a lot, but they just don’t gain weight. This may be due to insufficient gastrointestinal absorption function, and the digestion and absorption function of the stomach and intestines needs to be checked. The simplest and most direct way to check is to see a doctor, diagnose your gastrointestinal tract, and then prescribe the right medicine.

Don't be afraid of trouble. If it is really a disorder of digestion and absorption of the stomach and intestines, then no matter how much you exercise, it will only consume energy and you will never gain weight. In daily life, we should also pay attention to the fact that regular exercise helps improve the digestion and absorption function of the gastrointestinal tract, eat regularly with small meals frequently, and do not smoke.

2. Increase nutrition. For thin people to gain muscle and weight, it is important that intake is greater than expenditure. In life, we must pay attention to eating breakfast, not being picky eaters, choosing high-quality proteins such as eggs, milk, etc., drinking more nutritious porridge, and eating something that provides calories one hour before exercise; after exercise, we also need to supplement protein and appropriate carbohydrates.

3. To insist on fitness training, you must first firmly believe that fitness training can and must help you gain muscle and weight, there is no doubt about this. If you want to gain muscle and fat, you need to do strength training, which means you need to use heavy weights and do fewer repetitions. In the fitness industry, a training weight of 8-12RM is acceptable.

You can stick to regular exercise 3-4 times a week, about 60-90 minutes each time, depending on your physical strength. You can exercise two muscle groups each time, do 4-5 movements for each muscle group, do 4-5 sets of each movement, and do 8-10 reps in each set until you are exhausted, but you can do 1-2 sets with the maximum weight.

4. Keep a regular work and rest schedule. Do not stay up late. Go to bed before 11pm. Take a nap at noon to ensure you are fully energetic.

The above is an introduction to whether practicing yoga can help you gain weight. I believe that after reading this article, you will have a better understanding of how to live a healthy life. There are many people in life whose health is affected by their low weight. It is recommended that when gaining weight, they should adopt scientific methods, actively exercise, and effectively enhance their physical fitness.