Saturday, September 13, 2008

Yoga for weight loss?

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.

Make it a great day!

Chris Walker

The why can't I lose weight expert!

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Chris Walker is the founder of Fitnesstrainingformenandwomen.com located in Kitchener, Ontario. Chris manages several certified trainers, (CFT) within his organization 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 has helped people to get in shape for their wedding day as well as people battling severe obesity. Chris likes to focus on functional training and likes to incorporate his martial arts background into his programs. Chris is a firm believer of a strong mind and guarantees results for those who don't mind a little hard work. Chris is a member of International Sports Sciences Association, (ISSA) and Canfitpro Organization. Chris has made media appearances on Global Television, Rogers Daytime, The Record News Paper and is a published author of many health and fitness related articles and books.