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Yoga for Weight Reduction

Kindly suggest yoga exercises to reduce my tummy and back?
( 1 Aug 2008)

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Yoga is a great treatment for weight reduction and it also helps in reduction in the tummy and the excessive deposit of fats near the abdomen and the back region. Yoga helps in appropriate reduction of the fat in the whole body. When the fat in various organs of the body is burnt out it also helps to reduce the excessive weight in gained in the tummy region and the back.

There are specific asanas in yoga which help in the reduction of the weight near the tummy and the back region. These asanas include pawanmuktasana (free breeze pose) and paschimottasana (seated forward bend pose). These asanas involve lying flat on the belly and folding the legs from back and stretching them with your hands. It helps in reduction of the belly fat along with reduction in the fat deposits in the thigh region. It helps to provide perfect reduction in the weight in order for the individual to look slim. It also provides a perfect shape to the waist and burning of excessive fat deposits in the body.

Taking up the asana of pavanmuktasna helps in reduction of the belly fat and staying in this posture for quite some time shows better results on the body. Other asanas that involve head lift and shoulder lift also help to burn the cholesterol around the tummy region and this helps in reduction of the belly fat. Taking up light diet while one is on the weight reduction spree also shows great results in reduction of the belly fat.

Yoga helps to reduce the weight uniformly throughout the body so as to give perfect shape. These exercises help greatly in the reduction of the weight uniformly along with having a flat tummy. This exercise of lifting the shoulders and the neck up vigorously helps to burn the cholesterol in the back and lower abdomen. This exercise should be taken several times with large number of repetitions in one sitting.

Other exercises like chakrasana (wheel pose) and ardh chakrasana (half wheel pose) helps to provide the required exercise to the stomach and the abdomen thereby provides reduction in the excessive weight gain around the tummy and the back. Sarvangasana (shoulder stand) is also known for the reduction of weight around the stomach. It provides abdominal crunch which helps in the reduction of the weight around the stomach and other relative muscles. It provides strength to the legs and other surrounding organs and thereby helps to provide stamina along with tummy fat reduction.

answered by R J on 1 Aug 2008, 8:17:07

 

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