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...By Karli Taylor
There are many benefits to doing yoga regularly. Yoga allows you feel better about your body as you become stronger and more flexible, as you tone your muscles, reduce stress and improve your well-being. But does it help you lose weight?
Exercising frequently is the key to losing weight and maintaining your weight after weight loss. Doing yoga can help you achieve your weight loss goal, but it depends on what style of yoga you choose and what else you are doing for exercise.
Any type of yoga will build strength, but usually yoga will not raise your heart rate enough to be the only form of exercise for your weight loss regime. Truly it depends on the type of yoga you practice and how frequently you practice it. Power and Vinyasa classes can get your heart pumping, which causes a greater calorie burn than slower yoga classes. These types of classes should be performed three to five times per week in order to help you help you not only strengthen, lengthen, and tone your muscles, but also to drop those extra pounds.
Yoga focuses on achieving mind/body awareness. Many would argue, that as a result you treat your body differently and are more careful about the foods you eat and inspires you to take better care of your body. As a result, many believe that having a daily yoga practice results in weight loss.
So in combination with the right diet and exercise, a healthy mind through yoga is what contributes to losing weight.
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