10 Amazing Facts about Yoga
Thursday, 09 July 2020
Source: thegoodbody.com
- Yoga is over 5000 years old!
- Male yoga practitioners are known as ‘yogis’, female practitioners are known as ‘yoginis’
- There are more than 100 styles of yoga
- The word yoga comes from the Sanskit language and means ‘union’
- The first yoga mat was created in 1982 by Angela Farmer who used carpet underlay to create a sticky surface while teaching yoga
- Yoga boosts your immune system – According to a recent Norwegian study, which looked at the health benefits of yoga in relation to the immune system, findings showed that practicing yoga caused molecular changes that encouraged the circulation of immune cells
- Regular yoga can help ease stress, depression and anxiety
- Yoga has 84 basic poses
- George Harrison from the Beatles was a famous yogi
- Prisoners in India can reduce their sentence by getting top marks in a yoga test
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Isolation Workout – Beginner to Advanced
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Home isolation is the new way of life for the time being, but that doesn’t mean we should be grinding to a halt. Now more than ever it is important to take care of our mental and physical health.
Here are 3 simple workout circuits designed to keep you moving at home:
Beginner: 1 set of each
Intermediate: 2 sets of each
Advanced: 3 sets of each
Circuit #1
15 push-ups
15 burpees
1 minute plank
Circuit #2
20 jump lunges
15 jump squats
20 mountain climbers
Circuit #3
15 triceps dips (use a chair or coffee table)
1 minute wall sit
15 reverse crunch
Always remember to warm up, stretch afterwards and stay hydrated. Fit Flask is your hydration partner for keeping fit; fill it with cold water and it will stay cold for 24 hours!
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