To tone your body, you need to have a combination of a healthy diet, cardiac exercises, and strengthening exercises. For many people this means a rigorous regime of jogging and lifting, but that get monotonous over time. But a solution may be closer than you think. Surprisingly enough, yoga entail exercises for toning your body. It also encompasses cleansing exercises that can help you to release the toxins that build up in your system from your diet.
This article elaborates on some yoga postures, which are explained in an easy-to-follow manner.
1. Use the Tree Pose to Strengthen your Oblique at Any Time
The Tree Pose involves you stand on one leg with your other foot tucked in just above your knee and that hip open. Your legs look similar to the number four. Your arms are held in a prayer pose. This exercise is great because it can be done at any time: when you are waiting in a line at the post office, kept your food to heat up in the microwave, or during a phone call in the office. It is a low impact exercise but improves your balance and tones your oblique.
2. Stretch and Strengthen your Back with the Dog Poses
It is easy to forget about our back muscles until they cause us pain. However, working on them will firm your core and help you to shed abdominal fat. The two dog poses - upward dog pose and downward dog pose, concentrate on the back muscles. For upward dog, you have to lie on your mat with your belly on the floor. Then, while placing your hands by your ribs, you lift your body and arch your head and torso back. After holding this pose, you lower yourself back to the mat and go into downward dog pose by lifting your core off the mat in a triangle shape supported by arms and legs.
3. The Warrior Pose Tones your Lower Body
The warrior pose is great strengthening pose for your calves, thighs, and hips. In this you go into a deep lunge and place most of your weight on your bent leg. At the same time you keep your hips protruded towards the back. This creates tension that works that entire area. The warrior pose will also marginally help your arms, as they are held outstretched for the duration of the pose.
4. Flatten Your Abdominal Muscles with the Plank Pose
To tone your stomach and promote weight loss in that area, yoga offers a series of poses known as planks. As you hold yourself up in a plank you use all your core muscles to keep your body upright. A plank pose can either be done with your chest facing the ground or the side. In a standard plank, you hold your body in a way as if you are about to begin pushups. In a side plank, you balance on the side of your feet and hand and keep your core upright at the same time.
5. Firm Your Core with the Boat Pose
The muscles of your abdomen, hips, and lower back constitute your core area. The boat pose engages them all. Sit on the floor with your legs out in front of you. Put your hands behind your hips and lean back into them. Then lift your legs off the floor to a 45 degree angle. Once there, pick up your hands and extend them beyond your knees. Use your core muscles to keep your back erect and balancing on your tail bond. After three repetitions of 20 seconds each, you should feel all the muscles in your core working hard.
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