Bikram Yoga – Hot, New Energy
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by Jolene
Schwartz
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As people search for curative and restorative effects to combat the
impact of a chaotic world, Yoga has become very popular in our culture.
Yoga is for everyone and can be done by every body. Yoga is the only
exercise from which you gain energy instead of burning it and it doesn't
matter how well you do each of the postures, only that you do it the right
way. Traditional cardio exercise works on 3-10% of the body, Yoga
exercises 100% of the body, from bone to the skin, from head to the toes,
and to every organ, gland, tissue and cell.
Bikram Yoga is practiced in a 105 degree heated room and consists of 26
postures and 2 breathing exercises ... "So what does the heat do," you
wonder? 105 degrees enhances Vasodilatation, and the capillaries
surrounding the muscles respond to heat by dilating and the greater volume
of blood brings more oxygen, helping in the removal of waste carbon
dioxide and lactic acid. When blood passes through warm muscles, oxygen
releases more easily from the hemoglobin, blood passing through cold
muscles releases much less oxygen.
Warmer muscle tissue temperatures produce a fluid-like stretch that
allows greater elasticity and range of motion. Cold muscles don't absorb
shock or impact as well, so they tend to be injured more easily.
Heat speeds up the breakdown of fatty acids and glucose, and burns fat
faster and more easily. The stress of intense exercise drops a deluge of
fatty acids into the bloodstream. If you exercise with cold muscles they
can't use the fatty acids as efficiently and they end up in places they
aren't wanted ... such as in the lining of the arteries.
Muscles are not the only beneficiaries of heat, higher temperatures
improve the nervous system function, meaning messages are carried more
rapidly to and from the brain by the spinal cord and other neural
transmitters and receptors.
Day by day as Yoga gains popularity, people sweat, strain, laugh and do
more for their body, health, and well being than they could ever have
imagined with Bikram Hot Yoga.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jolene Schwartz is a grooming specialist for over 20 years; as a master
barber and licensed cosmetologist in her own men’s salon. She launched http://appearancesformen.com/ e-com site; writing monthly
columns about men’s products, lifestyle, and offering the finest in men’s
grooming products.
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