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If you’re like anything like me, your conversations revolve around “Nothing works!”, “I need to lose weight.”, or “I want to lose weight – badly!” I have tried myriad forms of diets, traipsed through bountiful videos, and buried my head under never-ending listicles. Guess what? None of them worked, and I am glad that they didn’t, for I wouldn’t have turned to yoga. And, in the process, wouldn’t have made it a way of living. And, yes, I lost weight – tons of it. Let’s now talk about a few yoga asanas that help build your muscle strength, tone your body, and help you lose weight. Yoga For Weight Loss Given here are the effective yoga asanas for each body part: A. For Facial Fat B. For The Arms C. For The Shoulders And Upper Back D. For The Midriff E. For The Thighs F. For Calf Muscles/ Hamstrings G. For The Hip A. For Facial Fat  (Approx. 2 minutes) 1. Simhasana This asana is known to tone the facial muscles and is a good stress bust...

If you’ve got back pain, yoga may be the last thing you feel like doing. But after 12 weeks of a gentle, beginner-level yoga program, people  in a recent study  had as much pain relief as those who did physical therapy sessions. And either type of exercise worked better than doing nothing at all. If you’d like to try the moves yourself,  here is the guidebook  they handed out to participants. The poses start out really basic, and don’t take any special amount of flexibility or strength. In many, you’re steadying yourself against a wall, or doing a simplified “baby” version of the kind of thing lululemon models do. The participants weren’t experienced yogis, either: they were 320 people with back pain who lived in the Boston area, racially diverse and mostly low-income. They didn’t have back injuries, just a nagging pain that doctors couldn’t explain,  possibly related to a lack of strength and flexibility . They went to an hour-long yoga class every w...

You don’t even have to get off the sofa •  Tim Dowling’s lazy person’s guide to self-improvement L ots of people tell me that while they want to practise yoga, they just can’t get off the sofa. Well, no worries.  Yoga  can be done by the laziest of the laziest. Just stay where you are and do this routine; I guarantee that you will be abuzz with positive energy afterwards. 1 Surya Bheda (single-nostril breath) 1  Sit up straight in a comfortable, relaxed posture. 2  Close the eyes. Rest your left hand on your knee, with thumb and forefinger together. On the right hand, bend the index and middle fingers, and gently apply pressure to your right nostril with your thumb or fourth finger. 3  Inhale through the left nostril, retain the breath for a moment, remove your hand from your right nostril, cover your left nostril and exhale through the right. 4  Repeat, inhaling through the left nostril and exhaling through the right. Do this for t...

You don’t know what you’re missing if you’ve never owned a Himalayan salt lamp. It’s like having an open window – a softly glowing natural source of fresh, clean air – on your desk, in your living room, next to the bed, or anywhere you choose to put it. Looking to buy a Himalayan salt lamp?  This beautiful Crystal Decor Himalayan Salt Lamp is our top pick for the best salt lamp on the market – and at the fairest price. (Although we reveal four more great picks at the end of this article!) Get it on Amazon  here .   Before we dive into the health benefits of using Himalayan salt lamps in your home, it may be helpful to first have a brief chemistry lesson: All matter (the human body, air, water, etc) is made up of molecules which are made up of atoms which are made up of three types of particles: protons (positive charge), electrons (negative charge), and neutrons (no charge). Electrons orbit their molecules like planets revolve around a star. Oc...

This is an interesting time of year. As the new year approaches and getting healthier is top of mind for many, the holidays ramp up and it’s harder and harder to get to the gym and stick to a routine. Many skip workouts, but also increase calorie intake. That’s why this fitness plan is here! We don’t want you to get off track. Let’s focus on a simple strength training plan that you can do anywhere, anytime, so you can push through the holiday season and into 2018 stronger than ever. This progressive, four-week plan can be found in the Anytime Fitness mobile app, under the workouts tab (Plans > Beginner > Strength > No Equipment). Even though it’s labeled “beginner,” it’s great for any person of any fitness level. There are three workouts a week, with a recommended day of active rest in between. During week one, you’ll start at a moderate intensity. The exercises will mainly target the muscles that surround your knees, hips, and shoulder joints. These unil...

Bodyweight Conditioning The karate classes were set up into two parts: conditioning and technique.  The primary goal of the conditioning portion was to make us so fatigued we couldn’t rely upon our strength during the second part of the class. Instead, we were forced to rely upon proper technique in order to beat an opponent. Yes, the conditioning was that brutal. And the workouts we performed were entirely bodyweight based. But I remember looking into the mirror with my shirt off after a couple months of training and thinking,  “Dang! You look like a Navy Seal!” That bodyweight training delivered results. A Karate-Based Conditioning Program The program laid out below is based on the same style of training I did in Kenpo Karate and will help you get ripped.  Why? Because it combines three important components: No Rest Between Each Exercise : Below, you will see a series of exercises. After you complete one exercise, you’ll move immediately to the n...

We can’t all afford a personal masseuse or athletic trainer to regularly rub out the kinks, soreness, and tight spots in our muscles. But there is a way to massage oneself, with the benefit of being able to control exactly where and how much pressure to apply. For that reason, in recent years, doing exercises with foam rollers, massage balls, and the like has gained immense popularity. Yet with new products and cheesy accompanying infomercials coming out all the time, knowing what to do and how to do it can be an intimidating task. At worst, doing exercises wrong can lead to pain and discomfort, and ultimately injury. You may have heard varying terms for these exercises: trigger point release, active release techniques, or perhaps something similar. The technical term, however, is self-myofascial release (SMR). Other terms may mean different things for different people, so we’ll stick with SMR for the purposes of this post. Benefits of Foam Rolling Let’s dissect this science-...