Yoga has many benefits and men can also practice yoga

　　Benefits of yoga:

　　1. Promote blood circulation

　　Yoga exercises can accelerate the heartbeat and circulation of oxygen-rich blood, thereby strengthening our blood circulation.

　　Almost any yoga class allows you to work up a sweat, practice deep breathing, speed up your heart rate (increase blood circulation), and massage and stimulate your excretory organs through twisting and bending postures. Regular yoga practice has great detoxifying properties.

　　2. Enhance physical strength and flexibility

　　Yoga poses are body movements refined over thousands of years of practice that strengthen and lengthen the connective tissues of the limbs. Whether your body is soft or stiff, weak or strong, yoga can improve your body and mind, as well as your body healthy。

　　3. Release stress

　　Regular yoga practice can make the body, mind and spirit calmer, promote the function of the immune system, and eliminate toxins produced in the body due to stress. There are many students who believe that yoga is the perfect cure after a hard day's work.

　　Yoga can eliminate fatigue and calm the mind. It allows people to maintain a comfortable and peaceful state and fully enjoy life.

　　4. Enhance self-confidence

　　Yoga makes us feel healthy, strong and supple and improves our external and internal self-confidence.

　　5. Strengthen respiratory management

　　Breathing quality often directly affects our mind and body. When we learn how to control and ease our breathing, we will find that we can control our body and mind more effectively. Yoga can help us learn to control the state of our mind and eliminate the stress we face in daily life.

　　6. Increase disease resistance

　　Yoga exercise Develop a strong physique and increase immunity. This enhanced resistance can deal with everything from cold to such as cancer various serious illnesses.

　　7. Improve vision and hearing

　　Normal vision and hearing mainly depend on Eye Get good blood circulation with the ears nerve Teleport. The nerves and blood vessels that supply the eyes and ears must pass through the neck. As we age, the neck, like other parts of the spine, loses elasticity, and nerves and blood vessels passing through the neck may encounter stagnation and difficulty. Such changes impede the supply of nerves and blood to the eyes and ears, thereby affecting their functioning. Yoga postures and yoga neck exercises can improve the condition of the neck, thereby enhancing vision and hearing.

　　Traditional yoga is only suitable for male

　　Zhong Jun, deputy chief physician of the Guangzhou National Physique Center, said that the earliest yoga practitioners were separated from society. They climbed on the snowy mountains of the Himalayas and meditated on the banks of the Ganges, but did not participate in social activities. Since the 20th century, people have begun to realize the benefits of yoga to the human body, and yoga has become popular among the general population.

　　Today, many people choose yoga as a way of fitness. Undoubtedly, this method is more popular. female welcome. Some people even think that yoga is only suitable for women to practice, and it is not appropriate for a grown man to practice yoga. However, Zhong Jun pointed out that judging from the origin of yoga, this exercise was actually first "customized" for men. A yoga master once wrote a book stressing: "Traditional Indian yoga is not suitable for everyone, only for men, because in ancient times, yoga was originally designed for men, especially for athletic and muscular men. ”

　　In India, at least 60% of yoga practitioners are men, and most of the real yoga masters are men. In some European and American countries, the popularity of men practicing yoga is even higher than that of women. “Yoga practice is gender-neutral. If you are fooled by the superficial flexibility of yoga movements and think that this kind of exercise is only for women, then it will undoubtedly be a loss for many men. ”Zhong Jun calls on more male friends to join the yoga army, especially those professional men who have been in sub-health for a long time. They should not continue to wander outside the yoga hall. They should try to sit cross-legged, close their eyes and practice breathing and stretching.

　　Yoga poses for men

　　1. Butterfly pose

　　Action: Sit down, bend your feet, and bring the soles of your left and right feet together relative to each other.； Hold your ankles with your hands and lean forward until you touch the ground. Take three deep breaths slowly and use your waist strength to get up.

　　Function: Let the mood slowly calm down.

　　2. Boat pose

　　Action: Keep your legs together and straight on the mat, keep your back straight, and place your hands by your side. Inhale, straighten your legs about 45 degrees away from the ground, straighten your back, open your chest, and stretch your head upward. Exhale and raise your hands in front of you. The abdomen and thighs should be tightened. Relax your face, relax your shoulders, and look at your toes. Breathe evenly for 30 seconds to 1 minute.

　　Function: Enhance body balance, strengthen the back; tighten the abdomen, reduce excess abdominal fat, and strengthen abdominal muscles； Promote intestinal peristalsis, improve digestive function; enhance prostate and kidney function, and improve sexual performance.

　　3. Camel pose

　　Action: Kneel down with your legs shoulder-width apart, hold your ankles with your hands, and make an arched body； Hips forward, legs should be perpendicular to the ground ； Take three deep breaths and slowly rely on your waist strength.

　　Function: Strengthen the spine and tail vertebrae, relieve back pain. (Reference website: Sanjiu Men)