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Incentive to Stick with Yoga

22 September 2009 4 Comments

yogaIf there were a way to feel full of vim and vigor in your golden years, wouldn’t you want to know about it? Now that Tony Horton (famous trainer to the stars and P90X Guru) is pushing 50, he’s writing about the golden years. Here is his input on Yoga and incentive to stick with it.

More and more studies are saying . . . Strike a Pose.

That’s right. Even if you’ve never tried yoga before, regularly practicing some simple yoga stretches and poses when you’re older can give you back some of the energy and flexibility of your younger years. Here’s a laundry list of all the other health benefits.

After six months of taking beginner yoga classes, men and women ages 65-85 reported:

* Feeling more energized compared to how they felt before they started
* Less pain overall in their day-to-day lives
* Having better balance
* Greater flexibility in their trunk and limbs

Not only that, yoga may be good for your heart, too. A study used a group of people with heart disease who adopted a “yoga lifestyle,” a holistic approach to health including eating right, getting those zzzz’s, and maintaining a generally positive attitude. Heart disease lesions diminished in almost half of the people who had signs of the disease at the beginning of the study.

Ommmm . . .

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4 Comments »

  • Jemmah2 said:

    I practice Yoga at home mainly for the purpose of having a relax mind and body. Stress is really high on our workplace and yoga helps me relax.
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  • Kember said:

    it is easy to learn Yoga although it seems difficult at first try. I practice Yoga mainly for relaxation and for improving my blood circulation.

  • Winding Machine  said:

    i always do Yoga every week because it is essential to my overall well being**;

  • Floria Kealoha said:

    We really love this webpage. Iwish I could come here everyday\all day. Always keep on posting more info!

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