Can doing yoga for an hour a day help you lose weight?

Yoga is mainly focused on shaping the body and cultivating one's character. It does not have a specific weight loss effect. If you only regard it as a weight loss exercise, it is not as effective as running or controlling your diet. However, depending on each person's physical condition, some people are prone to losing weight, so if they insist on doing some yoga exercises every day and consume some calories, they will lose weight. This varies from person to person, as described below.

1. How much weight you can lose by doing yoga in a month varies from person to person, and the effects of exercise are different for different people. It depends on the intensity of yoga practice, the difficulty of movements, and personal physique. The larger the base weight, the more obvious the weight loss effect. An average person who is 160cm tall and weighs 50kg can lose 2-3kg by practicing yoga for 1 hour every day and eating normally (without increasing food intake due to exercise). If combined with dieting and other exercises, you can lose more than 5 pounds. However, excessive dieting is not recommended as it can cause great harm to the body and can easily lead to rebound symptoms after resuming a normal diet.

2. If you practice yoga, it is mainly for body shaping and more beautiful body shape. If you want to lose weight, you need to rely on anaerobic exercise to shape the overall body first, such as crunches, reverse crunches, squats, sit-ups, etc., and then cooperate with aerobic exercise such as aerobics, jogging, cycling, each exercise should be more than 45 minutes, and then pay attention to the diet less oil and salt, do not eat high-fat, high-calorie and pork pasta, exercise + reasonable diet can achieve the effect of fat reduction and body shaping.

3. Theoretically, doing yoga for an hour every day can help you lose weight, just like running and exercising regularly, it is a way to burn fat. However, the amount of fat consumed by yoga may not be too great. If you only practice yoga, even for one or two hours a day, and do not improve your normal diet and do no other exercise, the possibility of losing weight is not very high.

4. Yoga + aerobic exercise is more effective: Combining yoga and aerobic exercise is a good way to lose weight. The ultimate goal of losing weight is to increase muscle content and then accelerate metabolism, because muscle consumes a lot of calories. Once the muscle increases, of course the calories consumed are high, and the human metabolism is high, so that the weight can be maintained at an ideal level. If you only lose fat and the muscle content decreases, then once you stop, your weight will definitely rebound. Therefore, yoga aerobic exercise to lose weight is not only to build fat, but more importantly to increase a certain amount of muscle.