If you aren't familiar with Yoga, this blog post is for you. While not solely a Yoga studio, Dynamic You Fitness offers several Yoga classes per week, and today we're sharing some of the reasons why practicing Yoga is so important for everyone.
For more than 5,000 years Yoga has been a practice of millions of people. If you are accustomed to a workout involving moderate to heavy weights, intense cardio, and a lot of sweat you may think an hour spent practicing Yoga isn't really the key to building strength or reaching your ideal weight, body fat percentage, and size. Often times, it's challenging to find a full hour to devote to fitness in a given day and because of this some believe the best way to spend it is doing something related to resistance training or a workout which raises the heart rate. In other words, a major calorie burn = success.
The truth though is that if you'll add Yoga to your life you'll likely find yourself burning more calories during those intense workouts the remainder of the week.
We want to encourage you to add at least one hour of Yoga to your weekly routine for a variety of reasons. The health benefits of Yoga, as outlined by WebMD, are many. We'll keep it simple.
1. Yoga improves strength
Whether vigorous in style such as power yoga or less intense such as hatha, you'll build endurance and muscle strength
2. Yoga improves posture
Core strength is built through Yoga, and with a stronger core comes a heightened awareness of your posture
3. Yoga improves lung capacity
Deep, mindful breathing will enhance your fitness performance and endurance. Translation: when you do take TRX + Kettlebells you're going to be able to work a lot harder
4. Yoga relieves stress
We could spend days discussing the ways in which stress negatively affects our health. But that would be stressful. With regular Yoga comes a more calm mind, better concentration and improved mood.
If you've never practiced Yoga, we know our classes are the best place to start. Our Yoga instructors, Donna & Rachel, are committed to meeting you where you are. There's support, encouragement, and calm within their classes.
In other words, there's no expectation of this pose on the first day (or any other days for that matter)
We invite you to join Donna this coming Saturday morning at 9:00 am for Yoga at Dynamic You.
Namaste.
