Strength Training With Yoga

 

yoga with weight

In this day and age where we are flooded with multiple fitness techniques and countless arrays of diet regimes, finding a well-rounded fitness routine is very important. Combining yoga with your workout might just be the thing to push you towards your fitness goal.

We usually associate heavy lifting to strength building. Yoga too is just as effective when it comes to strength building as it uses body weights, very similar to challenging exercises like planks. It has benefits like increased stamina and balance, releasing tension and relaxing the mind, while targeting multiple muscles instead of isolating the muscle groups during exercises.

There are many ways you can improve your workout by incorporating yoga:

Before your workout perform some yogic stretches to relieve tension in the muscles and prepare the body for the workout and cool down process.

 

Add weights to the workout

Yes yoga uses one’s own body weight but yoga with weights can help build more muscle and it increases bone density as well.

 

Challenge yourself with yoga

Ashtanga yoga, also known as The 8 Limb Yoga is a more energetic approach to yoga. This is a more physically demanding non-stop form of yoga which follows the same yoga sequence.

Hold each yoga pose for a longer period each time to get the most out of it. One can truly feel the strength being built even in a single stretch.

 

Mix it up

Try to include some push ups and planks to existing yoga poses to make it tougher.

This will challenge your body and tone every muscle group from head to toe.

The following are a few exercises that you can use to build strength with yoga:

Boat pose: This is a challenging core workout.

Warrior ll pose: Works on arms and legs, this is a version of a lunge

Chair pose: A squat variation works on the quads and glutes

Half crescent: Improves balance by holding a stretch

Cobra pose: This works the back muscles and relaxes them.

Yoga may not be enough to get you a muscular body but asanas sure will improve your strength and help transform your physique.


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