Yoga for Weight Loss?
100% Hardcore Truth
By Chris Walker Fitness Professional
Ok, so you've been convinced to join a female yoga class and the instructor sold yoga as a weight loss solution. Great! That is, if you want to tone and tighten those small muscles or perhaps you need to lose 10lbs or 20lbs but if you want to lose a significant amount of weight, I'm talking 50-100lbs plus. You might want to consider a faster route.
Yoga defined
Traditionally yoga is one of the six schools of the Hindu philosophy, focusing on meditation and spirituality. Yoga has since evolved and practiced for it's exercise benefits with little or nothing to do with spirituality. Research has proven that yoga is great for strengthening the lower back, core area and improving flexibility.
I've tried yoga
Now I've tried yoga and enjoyed it; downward dog, sun salutations it's a beautiful thing. Yoga definitely has great virtues but come on I've seen really big females doing yoga and when I inquired if that was their only weight loss path the answer was, yep. Can you lose excessive weight with yoga....maybe in 5yrs. I don't care if you crank the room up to 100 degrees you're better off with some squats, push-ups and plyometrics to develop your major muscle groups transforming your body into a fat burning machine.
I'm not discouraging yoga participants
Don't get me wrong I'm not discouraging you from yoga, I'd rather you couple the discipline with a resistance program focused on compound movements. Of course we also need to add good nutrition and moderate aerobics to obtain a fitness result.
Conclusion
Yoga is a great exercise discipline with many benefits and lately has become very trendy with many different sectors. The dangers when things become to trendy or popular is people who are looking to profit tend to blanket the trend as a cure all, selling yoga as the miracle workout. Yoga is indeed great for flexibility, core strength as well as overall strength but I don't see it as a rapid fat loss solution.
Chris Walker is the founder of fitnesstrainingformenandwomen.com located in Kitchener, Ontario. Chris is a certified fitness trainer, (CFT) and actively works with medical doctors and health care professionals in helping their patients to reduce bodyfat restore musculoskeletal strength and gain control over their blood sugar readings, good and bad blood fats and blood pressure readings, among other critical fitness issues. Chris is a member of International Sports Sciences Association, (ISSA) and Canfitpro Organization. Chris has made TV appearances on Global Television and is a published author. Chris produces a book that he gives to all readers titled, "New Body", everything you need to transform your body.
Thanks for reading.
Yoga for Weight Loss?
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