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Weight
loss yoga is yet another suggested way of losing
weight by exercising. With a society never hesitant of
inventing
phrases, yoga is one of those terms that attract such. Put massage
before yoga and you have massage yoga, dance and you have dance yoga.
There is even hot yoga which is done in high temperature confinements.
With the increasing emphasis of weight loss exercises
as central in losing weight and with yoga seen as a work out technique
is weight loss yoga feasible practically? Can you loss weight with
yoga?
Like similar exercise e.g.
weight loss pilates,
weight loss yoga will not result in you
shedding a whole lot of pounds. But as
Fat
Loss 4 Idiots (lose 40 lbs with Calorie Shifting )
reveals, this does not mean that it
doesn’t
compliment a weight
loss program.
Yoga means yoke as in the wooden frame that is used to co-join two oxen
to pull a plough. It is a reference to the bringing together of mind,
spirit and body entailed in the yoga practice.
And though yoga is traced back to the Hindu spiritual philosophy in
itself it is not a religion. Infact the way it has been packaged to be
attractive to the western societies is really as a work-out technique.
On the other hand though, yoga is not a sport, competitive or
otherwise.
There are a myriad of yoga technique, but it is the more physically
intense forms that are linked with any weight loss. Most of such forms
are closely related to the form called Hatha Yoga.
According to what are believed as ancient writing called the
‘Song of the Lord’ or the Bhavgavad Gita, there are
four main branches of yoga. They include
- Karma
Yoga - yoga of action in the
world
- Jnana
Yoga - yoga of wisdom and
intellectual endeavor
- Bhakti
yoga - yoga of devotion to
God
- Raja
yoga - the yoga of meditation.
The yoga we are most familiar with is the Raja Yoga
that uses
meditation as the means to achieve a goal. Another yogi sage called
Pantanjali has referred to this kind of yoga as Ashtanga yoga. This
means the eight limbed yoga referring to its eight main aspects.
The forms of yoga believed to be able to lead to some small extent of
weight loss or even weight management are development of Raja yoga, the
main being Hatha yoga.
Hatha
Yoga for Weight Loss
Unlike classic Raja where
the purification of
the mind and the spirit
leads to purification of the body, in Hatha it is the reverse. This
means that Hatha yoga focuses on purification of the physical body
leading to the purification of the mind.
Having an emphasis on the physical it primarily involves posture or
what are referred to as “asana” as well as
breathing or “pranoyama”. Infact what the westerm
world refers to as “yoga” is often Hatha yoga. This
has greatly contributed to yoga been viewed as an exercise and
therefore expected to result to some extent of weight loss albeit
little.
Weight loss primarily depends on a calorie deficit. This deficit as
detailed in
Fat
Loss 4 Idiots (lose 40 lbs with Calorie Shifting )
can be arrived to using
two main avenues. First, through restricting calorie intake using a weight loss diet.
The other is by increasing calorie expenditure using weight loss
exercises while keeping calorie intake constant. The
resulting calorie
deficit will then demand of the body to use up it reserve energy of
body resulting to weight loss.
When looking at weight loss yoga as an exercise to impact your weight
we have to look if it has the effect of what an effective weight loss
exercise should have.
First is weight
loss aerobics. To use body fat as source of energy, the body
needs to be provided with enough amount of oxygen consistently during
the exercise. The presence of enough oxygen allows the process of
lipolysis that breaks down fat into energy. Insufficient oxygen results
to the body switching to less efficient means of providing energy using
glucose instead.
Secondly the increased Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) of muscle that have
been subjected to intense exercises is also know to result to increased
caloric expenditure up to 17 hrs after a weight
training for example.
The million dollar question then is does yoga result to any of these
effects?
The sad truth is that it really does not in any significant extent in
most cases. Even with the more intense yoga practices like those taught
by the American foremost Yoga teacher Baron Baptist (Power Yoga) it may
not be effective to results to any significant weight loss.
But this is no reason for despair.
Nearly none of all weight loss exercises are known to cause huge
calorie deficits. However when combined with diets it has been shown in
a number of studies that it significantly increases weight loss. And
even more importantly, nearly any kind of dedicated physical exertions
are known to assist in maintaining weight loss.
Furthermore weight loss yoga could have benefits a part from weight loss
management. Its practioners note that it helps manage and
even eliminate stress. Stress is a known and at times a significant
contributor to obesity and weight gain. Conditions like emotional
eating are related in some way with some level of stress.
Stress results to increased secretion of a hormone called cortisol. The
hormone is known to increase deposition of fat particularly around the
abdomen. Practicing yoga could be a way to hit two birds with one
stone.
To learn more,
In the next page, you get to learn more about Calorie Shifting.
You will discover;
Weight loss is based on science but you need to execute it
artistically. You need to know when to apply which principle to apply
when. So, in additionyou will learn . . .
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