Going To Gym Regularly And Doing Yoga Affect Menstrual Cycle

Doing both simultaneously do not have any negative effect.  The only pre-requisite is that you should do in moderation and not overstrain.  Both are fitness regimen.  Exercise at gym has physical effect on the muscles and bones, yoga helps in harmonious development of body, mind and soul.

Yoga ensures perfect health.  Menstrual disorders like pain, cramps, heavy bleeding, scantiness or irregularity all get corrected with regular practice of yoga.    The yoga poses which are good for women are:

1.  Salabhasana (The Locust Pose)
It tones spine, abdominal organs and hear.  The Locust pose tones thyroid, parathyroid adrenals and gonad.  It strengthens the muscles of back, thighs, arms and neck. It improves digestion and relieves constipation and dyspepsia.  It is also effective for ovaries and uterus,

2.  Dhanurasana (The Bow Pose)
It is good for backache and mild disc problems, cervical and lumbar spondylitis, reduces fat around the waist, thighs and arms, strengthens neck and massages the abdominal and pelvic organs.

3.  Paschimottanasana (The Posterior Stretch)
It helps in overcoming menstrual disorders.  It cures impotency and seminal weakness.  The Posterior Stretch is very effective for constipation, dyspepsia, flatulence and digestive disorder.  It also rectifies deformities in the spine.

4.  Ardha Matsyendrasana (Half spinal Twist pose)
It makes the spinal column, especially the lumbar vertebrae more flexible.

5.  Baddha Konasana (The Cobbler’s Pose)
It straightens the spine, tones gonads and pelvic organs and relieves pelvic congestion. It is good for genitor-urinary disorders of prostate, ovaries and urinary bladder.

6.  Janusirshana (The Head to Knee Posture)
This yoga pose improves blood flow to pituitary, pineal, thyroid and parathyroid glands, relieves congestion in pelvic organs, tones abdominal organs and is again tones the spine.  This is good for indigestion and constipation and menstrual and sex gland disorder.

7.  Pavanamuktasana (The Wind Relieving Pose)
It is good for digestive disorder. It is effective for people suffering from flatulence.  It reduces obesity of abdomen, thighs and arms.

8.  Bhujangasana (The Cobra Pose)
Strengthens the spine, stimulates thyroid, parathyroid glands and abdominal and pelvic organs.

9.  Shavasana (The corpse pose)
It eliminates toxins from the blood, calms the heart and nervous system and circulation becomes regular.

The above yoga poses correct the disorder of the menstrual cycle.  They should not however be performed during menstruation.

All inverted postures like Viparitkarani (The Inverted Posture), Sarvangasana (The Shoulder-Stand Pose, Halasana (The Plough Pose) and Sirshasana are very effective and beneficial yoga poses for women. Sarvangasana (The Shoulder-Stand Pose) is one inverted yoga pose which should be included in your daily routine because of its regenerating effect on the thyroid.  It is also good for over and uterine problems.

Yoga should be practiced under the expert guidance of a Yoga instructor.