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Overcome Menstrual Pain With Yoga

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

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The practice of yoga is believed to cure many things. By practicing yoga, balancing one’s body can be returned. Now many women who practice yoga to relieve pain during menstruation.

Pain during menstruation occurs because the muscles around the abdomen and pelvic cramps. Pain is usually felt in the first three days of menstruation. There are some yoga positions that can be done to overcome them.

Kapalabhati (crossed)
This is the easiest position in yoga. This position is to train breathing, clean lungs. The effect will be felt relaxed during training this position. Because the body relax, the muscles will relax spasm.

Dhanurasana (bow position)
This position will strengthen the back muscles. This position could also overcome digestive problems such as excess stomach acid. Often when she was menstruating, bloating and stomach will be carbonated. By doing Dharusana position, flatulence problems can be overcome.

Pavanamuktasana
This movement away literally means wind. As the name implies, this gesture is also often used for digestive problems and pain in the abdomen. Therefore, it is very appropriate pavanamuktasana done to cope with menstrual pain.

Viparita karani (attitude Candles)
Lying by lifting hips until legs straight up it can overcome the headaches that come during menstruation. This movement could be the blood circulation to the head, so that pain can be lost.

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Her slender body with Yoga

Monday, February 1st, 2010

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Perhaps you are one of the many people who feel frustrated by the difficulty of losing weight. That’s not surprising. The reason, weight gain is a very complex problem. There are the influence of genetic factors, lifestyle, diet, and others.
The benefits of yoga exercises that directly felt physically it is loosening muscles stiff because of lack of motion, tension, and stress. Yoga movements also increase joint range of motion, increase flexibility, and help correct the wrong posture because of weight gain.
Yoga exercises to help strengthen and lengthen muscles so that the body was more slender and shapely after practice. However, the shaped body is not always followed by weight loss. Remember, muscle is more dense and heavier than the volume of fat tissue.
Potential to burn calories
In yoga there is also practice pranayama. These breathing exercises to make the vital energy or prana in the body move. This can help overcome the problem when you gain weight, but rather sluggish due to the body’s energy level decreased.
Another benefit of yoga is the psychological aspect. The weight gain often makes self-giving negative comments. Through yoga we try to prevent this by creating a safe environment and positive to reconnect the body and eliminate the negative messages that often arise in the mind. (more…)

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11 fitness trends, advantages and disadvantages

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

The options that we offer gyms and fitness centers are many and very different when choosing the right training for our body, personality and lifestyle should consider the good and the bad of each. We must also consider what our goals to achieve with physical training to choose those activities that allow us to reach them quickly and efficiently.

Here’s a round with 11 of these tendencies with their advantages and disadvantages, is in you select the most appropriate.

Boot Camp
boot campBased boot-style training in the military, boot camp combines the expertise of the instructor with the support of other participants and / or peer pressure.

The exercises include jump rope from high impact to later flights, which aims to increase aerobic capacity and strength and toning core muscles.

Advantages: Because the exercises are endless combinations, each routine is new. Innovation is great to involve both muscles and mind. In addition, small classes offer the bonus of personal attention from the instructor at a fraction of normal cost.

Disadvantages: Participants may overestimate their physical state, crossing the line and stop exercising, and routines can cause very severe injuries if training is not customized. To not hurt, it should listen to the body and inform the instructor about any injuries or pre-existing physical problem. Also, do not be afraid to change any of this if we exercise too difficult.

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