Women who practice yoga more can not only strengthen their bodies, but also effectively relieve stress, improve sleep, improve a person's temperament, and delay aging. It is deeply loved by many women.
In addition, practicing yoga more can also improve a person's physical fitness and effectively improve the body's immunity. It can be said to be a very good exercise.
However, there are also many people who suffer from muscle strain , lumbar and cervical vertebra herniation, elevated blood pressure, fractures and other problems due to practicing yoga, thus affecting their health.
So even if you exercise well, if you don’t pay attention to protection, it may cause physical injuries.
You must pay attention to these issues when practicing yoga
1. Practice yoga within your ability
We will see that many yoga movements are very beautiful and stretch very well, but for a person who has just learned yoga, it is very difficult. one thing.
Especially some difficult postures, if we are not careful, it is easy to hurt our joints or directly fall, thus affecting our health.
Therefore, when you first start practicing, you must practice within your ability, because practicing yoga is to stretch our body and use body perception to do it, instead of blindly imitating its difficult movements. As long as you find that your body is relaxing step by step, Just make progress slowly as we practice.
2. Do not overeat before practicing yoga.
Yoga is a whole-body stretching exercise. It often involves twisting, forward bending, abdominal tightening and other movements. If you do not eat too much before practicing, you will not only It will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract, and may also cause symptoms such as dizziness and nausea.
Of course, you should not be too hungry before practicing yoga, otherwise low blood sugar will be dangerous. Try to eat something an hour before practicing to replenish some energy.
3. You must persevere in practicing yoga
If you want to practice yoga well, you must persevere, because only by continuous practice, the movements will gradually become standard, achieving the effect of shaping the body and improving the temperament.
Moreover, practicing yoga requires core strength, which requires a long process of practice to achieve.
In addition, if you don’t persevere, you will no longer be able to do what you were able to do before.
Therefore, if you want to achieve beautiful postures, you need to persevere.
4. When practicing yoga, you must pay attention to adjusting your breathing.
Many people rely on the breath to practice yoga, always thinking that they can just do the movements like the instructor.
But in fact breathing is very important for yoga. Only by adjusting one's breathing can the benefits of practicing yoga be truly achieved.
And only by adjusting our breathing, our bodies will truly relax during this breath.
Therefore, when practicing yoga, we must first learn to breathe, adjust our breathing frequency, let our body relax, and never hold your breath.
5. Not all yoga movements are suitable for
There are many yoga postures and types, and the effects will be different. You must choose according to your own physical condition.
Just like some handstands or some strenuous movements, it is not suitable for patients with hypertension or patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases .
There are also some patients with cervical or lumbar spine problems. If they do not pay attention to the correct posture and force, these conditions will be aggravated. For example, plowing can easily cause intervertebral disc herniation or aggravate the condition, so you must pay attention.
Also menstruating women are not suitable for doing handstands.
Therefore, when practicing yoga, you must choose the posture that suits you according to your own situation.
Although yoga is a very good exercise, it must be used properly, especially some postures must be accurate, otherwise not only will there be no fitness effect, but it will be very harmful to the body.
Reference:
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