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13 Simple Aerobic Tips
Aerobic exercise is vital for optimum health, but too many people approach it in a haphazard way. Here is Dr. Weil's advice for gaining maximum benefits.
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Aerobic Exercise for Well-Being
Aerobic exercise is any activity that increases your heart rate and respiratory rate, the kind that feels like work and makes you huff, puff, and sweat.
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Bridge Pose
The Bridge Pose calms the brain and rejuvenates tired legs.
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Cobra Pose
This posture promotes flexibility in the spine and encourages the chest to open.
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Cycling is Easy on the Joints
Cycling is the preferred activity for those with bad knees. It strengthens knee muscles without trauma, leading to less chance of future injury.
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Downward-Facing Dog
One of the most widely recognized yoga poses, Downward-Facing Dog is an all-over, rejuvenating stretch.
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Exercise Pitfalls
I must point out a few pitfalls of exercise that are seldom discussed, especially in our fitness-obsessed age. Exercise is not the sole determinant of health any more than diet is.
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Extended Side Angle Pose
This pose creates a stretch along the top side of the body, from the back heel through the raised arm.
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Full Boat Pose
An abdominal and deep hip flexor strengthener, Boat Pose requires you to balance on the tripod of your sitting bones and tailbone.
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Hate to Exercise?
"I hate to exercise." How many times have I heard these words I from patients and others? How many times have I said them myself?
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How Much Exercise Do We Need?
Just as a varied diet promotes optimal nutrition, a varied regimen of aerobic activity leads to overall muscular and cardiovascular fitness.
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How to Make Exercise a Habit
No matter how much you try to make it fun, when you first start regular aerobic exercise, you will probably dislike it. Here's how to keep going.
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Making Aerobic Exercise Simple and Fun
Making aerobic exercise more fun and less boring is your greatest challenge, because if you fail to do this, you are likely to let your program slide before it becomes established as a good habit.
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Mixing Yoga Styles
There are pros and cons to taking a variety of classes in different yoga styles each week.
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Muscle Trimming
Muscle trimming, the floor work of aerobics classes, is intended to increase muscle tone and improve body contours.
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Seated Forward Bend
Literally translated as "intense stretch of the west," Paschimottanasana can help a distracted mind unwind.
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Six Alternative Aerobic Activities
Running, walking and bicycling are common aerobic exercises, but they are far from the only ones. Try these to add interest to your workouts.
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Strength Training with Weights
The chief aim of training with weights should not be creating disproportionately large muscles, but rather a stronger, healthier and more resilient body.
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Stretching 101
Stretching is a totally natural conditioning exercise that improves the tone and health of muscles; limbers up tendons, ligaments, and joints; changes the dynamics of the nervous system; and just feels good.
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Swimming is the Lifetime Exercise
Swimming is the exercise of choice for anyone with musculoskeletal problems such as arthritis or traumatic injury, and provides a whole-body workout.
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T'ai Chi
T'ai chi, also known as Chinese shadow boxing, is a formal series of flowing, graceful, slow-motion movements designed to harmonize the circulation of energy (chi) around the body.
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The Pros and Cons of Running
Pleasant summer weather brings out runners in droves. Running promotes fitness quickly, but has some disadvantages as well.
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Tree Pose
Vrksasana clarifies just how challenging it can be to stand on one leg.
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Walking: The Best Exercise
Walking offers the great advantage of requiring no skill or practice. Everyone knows how to do it, and the only equipment you need is a good pair of shoes.
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Warrior II Pose
Named for a fierce warrior, an incarnation of Shiva, this version of Warrior Pose increases stamina.
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Why Exercise Programs Don't Work
The vast majority of people who start exercise programs do not stick with them. Health clubs make a lot of money selling yearlong memberships to men and women who make resolutions to get into shape.
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Why Must We Exercise?
The news media tell us constantly that physical fitness is not what it should be in our society, that standards of fitness are lax, that children today are not physically fit.
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Wide-Legged Forward Bend
The pose as described here is technically known as Prasarita Padottanasana I.
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Yoga: FAQs
Learn more about commonly asked questions regarding yoga.
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Yoga Journal Experts: Comparing the Approach to Exercise Training Vs. Yoga Practice
There are several distinctions between weight training, walking, and yoga.
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Yoga Journal Experts: Emotional Reactions During Yoga?
Emotional reactions during yoga sessions are very common.
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Yoga Journal Experts: Practicing Poses According to the Seasons and Time of Day
Your personal rhythm within a 24-hour period, as well as your relationship to the sun and moon, heat and cold, and the crispness or thickness of the changing seasons, can indeed factor into which asanas you practice when.
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Yoga: More Than a Workout
Yoga can do much more than just stretch muscles. In India, this ancient science is a philosophical-religious system for attaining unity of consciousness.
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Yoga: Moving Toward Mastery
Practicing new postures doesn't have to be overwhelming. Try these tips for approaching a new asana step by step.
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Yoga: Relaxation 101
There are several distinctions between weight training, walking, and yoga.
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Yoga: Restorative Yoga
Savor the deep relaxation of restorative postures by preparing for them carefully.
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Yoga: To Prop or Not to Prop
Are props a helpful supplement to your practice, or do they just get in the way? Here's how to decide when to use - and not use - these tools.
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