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Chapter 5-—Is Yoga Asanas Appropriate for Weight Loss?

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If you do yoga poses, then your excess weight will disappear. For instance, when people start with kriya yoga, some people will begin to lose weight while some will gain. If your digestion couldn’t convert food into muscle when you started kriya yoga, then the poses will fire up your metabolism and get your body digestion food better than before.

Yoga poses for weight loss—Understanding the food factor

Yoga poses help rejuvenate the body and bring in a greater sense such that you won’t get the urgency to overeat. Once you reach a certain level of awareness, your body will re-adjust to just a situation that you’ll only eat when you need to. The body will able to tell you whether now is the time or eat or not, and what to eat because it will be in weight-loss mode.

Yoga, strength training, and weight loss

The body is a very phenomenal structure. What the human muscles can do is out of this world. And this can be further enhanced by strengthening them, and at the same time making them very flexible. If you do a lot of weightlifting, you will get big muscles, but they won’t be flexible. In general, people with huge and massive muscles can’t execute a namaskar properly. Furthermore, they can’t even bend.