Monday, 29 July 2013

Increase Power of Your Bones, Muscles, and Joints with Yoga



1. The physical benefits of yoga are countless. Yoga keeps your body strong, as it involves all the muscles in your body to hold and balance yoga asanas (poses). Your feet, legs, hands, abdominals, lower back, legs, and shoulders are strengthen through various yoga postures. 2. Yoga's stretching and breathing exercises improve your flexibility, helping joints, tendons, and muscles stay limber. People suffering from osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis will see a noticeable improvement in their stiffness, pain, and other arthritic symptoms by practicing yoga poses and postures. 3. Yoga improves your endurance, especially the more athletic forms of yoga such as ashtanga yoga, power yoga, vinyasa yoga, and Bikram yoga. These rigorous yoga practices follow a specific sequence of poses (asanas) that become more challenging as you progress. Unlike the more gentle hatha yoga, the forms of ashtagna yoga, power yoga, vinyasa yoga, and Bikram yoga require you to keep your body in constant motion between poses, resulting in a strenuous cardiovascular workout and improved core strength. 4. Hatha yoga can relieve chronic back and neck pain, since the poses and postures gently stretch and strengthen your back and neck muscles. 5. Yoga is often prescribed to help heal various injuries including repetitive strain injuries, knee and back injuries, pulled hamstrings and even minor skin burns. But you should consult your physician before using yoga as a treatment for any injury. 6. Yoga is an excellent weight-bearing exercise that can improve your bone density. This is particularly beneficial for women approaching menopause, since yoga can help ward off osteoporosis, or thinning of the bone.




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