How to Incorporate Yoga in Your Fitness Regimen

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Article Title: How to Incorporate Yoga in Your Fitness

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Author: Foras Aje

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With the several benefits attached to yoga including

increased flexibility while simultaneously increasing

strength and a sound mind, its no wonder several people are

interested in Yoga.

 

 

However, in spite of its benefits, several people may not

want to give up on their existing fitness regimens so they

ask: "Well, can I combine it with the exercise I do now?"

 

 

Sure, why not?

 

 

 

As a matter of fact this will not only supplement your

current fitness training regimen, it will give it an

all-around augmentation.

 

 

 

Here's how to include yoga in your plan based on personal

research and study.

 

 

First of all, to warm up for what it is you might be

doing-Calisthenics, Weight-Lifting, Pilates etc, try Yoga's

Sun Salutations.

 

 

Trust me, in regards to loosening up the large and smaller

muscle groups and warming them up, when practiced in high

numbers such as 24 and upwards, these babies give you

strength.

 

Hey, Bruce Lee was said to do them as well as several

Eastern Wrestlers, so it can't be wrong.

 

 

This is the very core of yoga itself.

 

 

This exercise is a combination of Yoga Poses, Breathing

exercise, Sun Bathing and Prayer. It is the warm-up of a

yoga class or personal yoga session and is a combination of

12 poses that are performed in a synchronized motion with

emphasis on rhythmic breathing.

 

 

My next suggestion would be the yoga-esque calisthenics

exercise known as the Hindu Push-Up. If one exercise could

work the entire upper body, hips and depending on your

execution, legs, this will be it.

 

 

However, since I said it is a yoga derivative, you could

simply use its starter position, the downward facing dog, to

stretch the lower body and its ending position, the cobra

pose, to stretch the entire upper body.

 

 

If all else `fails', hey, the simplest (yet hardest) yoga

pose that could (should) be included is the `corpse' or

`relaxation' pose. This, as the name suggests will aid in

relaxing and cooling down the muscles after exercise.

 

 

There are tons of other poses that could serve as boons for

specific muscle groups such as the peacock pose for arms,

the triangle pose for the legs, and many more, but suffice

it to say if you're considering adding yoga to you fitness

routine, it sure won't hurt and could possibly help a whole

lot.

 

 

In Friendship,

 

 

 

Foras

 

 

 

Foras Aje is an independent researcher and co-founder of

BodyHealthSoul LLC.

He invites you to visit his blog on Yoga for Beginners for

more yoga tips today at

http://www.bodyhealthsoul.com/yogaforbeginners-blog/

 

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