by Dr. Bhanu Abohari
What does your workout routine look like and what type of exercises have you included to ensure the overall health of your body and mind?
Many motivated, fitness-driven individuals work very hard to look good and keep their bodies feeling good as well. Unfortunately, it can be easy to place an overemphasis on strength training or cardiovascular exercises.
While these are certainly important parts of your overall fitness program, you need to design a well-rounded routine that will help you improve your fitness level and maintain your desired body composition.
To do so, you need to make sure to include stretching or regular yoga training when planning your workout sessions. Yoga can have many benefits for your body and your mind and, yet, people continue to overlook it as an essential component of a well-rounded workout plan.
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Here are just a few of the amazing benefits of including regular yoga training in your workout plan:
Improves Mind-Muscle Control :
Having good bodily awareness will ultimately help you to make your workouts much more effective because it will increase your ability to listen to your body and interpret what it needs. Yoga is a great way to increase that awareness.
Much of yoga focuses on the mind-body connection. If you practice yoga regularly, you’ll find some very good benefits that will transfer over to your other workout sessions. Ideally, you should see significant improvements in your balance, agility, and coordination.
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Relieves Mental and Physical Stress:
There are many different types of yoga you can do, but most will place some level of focus on deep breathing that is designed to put your body into a deeply relaxed state. Through this process, your muscles will begin to relax and release the tension they’ve been holding for an undetermined amount of time.
Stress can be a huge burden on your overall health, and many people enjoy the gentle movements and deep breathing of a yoga practice because of the effects they have at relieving tension and stress in the mind and body.
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Helps You Become Aware Of Your Breathing:
If you work out regularly, you should certainly be aware of how you’re breathing during your workouts because a lack of proper breathing techniques can actually result in workouts that cause more harm than good. Throughout your yoga practice, you’ll be able to focus on maintaining a slow and controlled breathing rate.
Over time, you’ll learn how to place your body in a relaxed state much faster by mastering the art of controlling your breath. As you move out of a yoga session into another form of workout, be sure to bring your new breathing techniques with you, as it is vital to helping you get the most out of your cardio or resistance training.
Increases Flexibility:
Of course, aside from breathing and relaxation, yoga’s main focus is on concerted stretching to help you keep your body limber. Increasing the flexibility of your muscles and joints will ultimately help you improve the effectiveness of the other exercises in your program.
Besides, increased flexibility means that your body will be at a decreased risk of injury to muscles and ligaments as a result of your workouts. This is extremely important, as an injury can effectively wipe out all the progress you’ve made with your workout program to this point.
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Physical benefits of Yoga:
- Improved posture
- Better sleep
- The increased natural energy level and vitality
- Greater flexibility, strength, and stamina
- Better balance
- Stronger immune system
- Pulse and respiratory rate decreases
- Blood pressure decreases
- Cardiovascular efficiency increases
- Respiratory efficiency increases
- Cholesterol decreases
- Cleansing and regulating of all the body’s systems
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Mental Benefits of Yoga:
- Calm and clarity
- Greater confidence and generally more positive mood
- Sense of inner well-being and ‘centredness’
- Increased awareness of body and movement
- Counters depression and anxiety
- Ability to concentrate improves
- More self-acceptance
- Increased social skills
At Fitrebel, we believe in a wholesome, and holistic approach to Health and Fitness. No one school of fitness ticks all the boxes. An approach that takes the best from all, will outdo ones sticking with one methodology alone.
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Nice article.you may want to add videos for daily yoga practice.
Hi, Thanks for your input, yes it is already in the writing, going to publish soon. Please subscribe to follow.
Nice article, yes, the importance of flexibility in all workouts have been grossly under rated in most of the regimens. Yoga is a very good adjunct to the fitness program. It has been quite informative! As mentioned before, some videos would help!
Good job Dr..
Hey Thanks for a review, at Fitrebel we believe in a holistic approach to health and fitness. I Will keep your advice in mind. Please stay tuned to receive more helpful information.
Yogasanas and pranayama combined definitely gives a complete workout.looking forward for more information.
Without a doubt, and it’s also a very progressive system i.e.you keep getting better at it, the chances of injuries reduce drastically. Can’t say the same for running and/or weight training. Keep the comments and inputs coming. Much appreciated.
Kindly note the added Videos
Being a regular yoga praticner I definitely advise to do yoga every single day. You being a doctor nd taking this effort is priceless. You are amazing Doc.. coming soon there to meet you..
Hi Mandeep, Thanks. Those are very encouraging words coming from a Yog Guru like you. Hoping to have a guest blog from you sometime in the future.
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You are providing useful information on maintenance of health. Keep it up
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