The document discusses the benefits of practicing power yoga for weight loss and belly fat reduction. It explains that power yoga is a more vigorous style of yoga that can burn more calories than other yoga styles, providing sufficient fat burning and weight loss. Specifically, it states that practicing power yoga two times per week can effectively burn fat and lose weight while also strengthening muscles. The document emphasizes that power yoga offers benefits over cardio alone, as it burns calories and fat while building lean muscle mass for overall fitness.

1. Yoga for Belly Fat
There is widespread belief that an hour of physical yoga is enough cardiovascular activity to fulfill the average
person's daily fitness needs. The truth is that many schools of yoga burn calories at a low rate and are therefore
not the ideal form of exercise to target fat burn. Of course, it is also true that certain forms of yoga are
considered more active and do burn calories while tightening and toning the body.
Different styles and yoga instructors vary in the physical challenge they present. A person weighing 150 pounds
doing an hour of Hatha yoga burns 180 calories, for example, while an hour of Ashtanga yoga burns 350
calories. Asthanga yoga is considered one of the most physically difficult schools of yoga, but even this form is
outpaced by a slow run. In an hour, a runner going at a slow 12-minute-mile pace can still burn upwards of 500
calories.
So why practice yoga for belly fat?
It is true that yoga may burn fewer calories than running, but the overall health benefits like increased flexibility,
improved focus, stronger bodies and relatively low risk of injury have a lot to say in favor of practicing yoga
instead of or to complement other forms of fitness activities. However, because it may not burn calories at an
intense pace like running or elliptical training can, yogis who would like to use yoga to burn belly fat must
practice a targeted, intentional sequence of poses.
Four Tips for Practicing Yoga to Burn Belly Fat
1. Keep it moving! Choose a series that is designed to flow easily from pose to pose. Hold each pose for a
minute or two and move quickly into the next pose. The fast flowing sequence should simultaneously tax your
strength and elevate your heart rate, increasing the rate of calorie burn.
2. Target your practice! Make sure to use or design a sequence that strengthens your core muscles. Chair pose,
plank pose, sun salutations and forward, side and back bends all target your abs, back and sides.
3. Finish and repeat! Do the pose sequence several times in order to get the maximum benefit from your practice;
make sure your focus on the second and third repetitions is on correct posture since technique often begins to lag
as your muscles fatigue.
4. Go long! Ideally, it takes 40 to 60 minutes of moderate exercise for your body to start burning through its fat
reserves. So don't settle for a quick 30 minute session; you need to stay active for most of an hour in order to get
the best fat-burning results.
© Copyright 2012 - Aura Wellness Center - Publications Division
Faye Martins, is a Yoga teacher and a graduate of the Yoga teacher training program at: Aura Wellness Center
in, Attleboro, MA. To receive Free Yoga videos, Podcasts, e-Books, reports, and articles about Yoga, please
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2.
Power Yoga for Weight Loss - Sufficient
Fat Burn With Weight Loss and
Strengthens Your Lean Muscles
When modern teachers of yoga started transcending borders to teach yoga to their western students, they
invented the word "power yoga," which was more consonant with the western synonyms and easy to explain to
the students. Actually, power yoga takes its origin from Ashtanga yoga where a series of postures coordinated
with breathing. This procedure detoxifies the muscles and organs due to the intense heat and profuse sweat
generated during the process. It accounts for improved circulation, a calm mind and a body that is light and
strong. However, power yoga is a universal term that refers to an approach to Vinyasa yoga based on fitness, and
hence can vary widely in their connotations and applications.
This type of yoga involves total body workout, almost akin to cardiovascular exercises and has gained
tremendous popularity for its success in improving the body toning, flexibility and strength, and extracts all the
benefits that could accrue from vigorous aerobic exercises. Power yoga has drawn from the best parts of yoga
and adapted its application to weight loss and body fitness. Power yoga sets a fast pace, and brings down the
heart rate, instigating profuse sweating, which are features that serious yoga practitioners look forward to.
Among the several benefits accruing from are calorie-burning, enhancement in strength, flexibility and stamina,
enhanced metabolism, stress reduction and strength addition in inactive muscles.
The debate on the contrasting benefits of Cardio exercises viz-a-viz power yoga has raged on for a long time.
Everyone agrees that you could get to burn twice the number of calories in a one-hour Cardio session when
compared to yoga. However, yoga burns calories because it increases metabolism while it continues to build lean
muscle, leading to the universally desired process of fat burning and consequent weight loss. The point here is
that a cardio exercise can burn calories but not fat, and excess cardio can even reduce your muscle strength,
while power yoga, when burning calories and fat, continues to build the muscles.
Two sessions of yoga per week will give you sufficient fat burn and weight loss. Additionally, it also strengthens
your lean muscles, which is good, if you intend to go for cardio exercise later and to lift weights. Many experts
profess that a right blend of cardio and yoga is an ideal solution for weight loss. For those runners and heavy
weight lifters who are searching only for flexibility and strength of body in their pursuit of a body like Adonis,
power yoga is the best remedy.
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