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If you already know your way around a yoga mat, you can practice for free at home. Although yoga will give you a full-body workout, it won't put any impact on your joints. Focus on your own practice and don't compare yourself to other people in your class. Regular practice will strengthen the muscles of your arms, back, legs, and core. It takes a lot of strength to hold your body in a balanced pose. And even though yoga is not aerobic, some research finds it can be just as good as aerobic exercise for improving health. Yoga isn't considered aerobic exercise, but the more athletic varieties, like power yoga, will make you sweat. With regular practice, they'll improve your flexibility.ДЄerobic: No. Yoga poses stretch your muscles and increase your range of motion.

It's no wonder that research finds yoga may be good for relieving a sore back. Moves like downward-facing dog, child's pose, and cat/cow give your back muscles a good stretch. Yoga squats, bridges, and warrior poses involve deep knee bends, which give you a more sculpted rear.Д«ack: Yes. Yoga poses work all sides of the legs, including your quadriceps, hips, and thighs.

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Others, like the crane and crow poses, challenge your arms even more by making them support your full body weight. Some poses, like the plank, spread your weight equally between your arms and legs. With yoga, you don't build arm strength with free weights or machines, but with the weight of your own body. To really burn out the middle of your abs, you can do a boat pose, in which you balance on your 'sit bones' (the bony prominences at the base of your pelvic bones) and hold your legs up in the air.ДЄrms: Yes. Want to tighten those love handles? Then prop yourself up on one arm and do a side plank. There are yoga poses to target just about every core muscle. Bikram and power yoga are faster and more challenging. Techniques like hatha and iyengar yoga are gentle and slow.

The intensity of your yoga workout depends on which form of yoga you choose. A type of yoga that uses props like blocks, straps, and chairs to help you move your body into the proper alignment.

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Also known as 'hot yoga,' it's a series of 26 challenging poses performed in a room heated to a high temperature. A series of poses, combined with a special breathing technique. A faster, higher-intensity practice that builds muscle. A series of poses that flow smoothly into one another. The form most often associated with yoga, it combines a series of basic movements with breathing. Others are gentle and relaxing.Д®xamples of different yoga forms include: There are more than 100 different forms of yoga. It's a total mind-body workout that combines strengthening and stretching poses with deep breathing and meditation or relaxation. Yoga does more than burn calories and tone muscles. It's been around for more than 5,000 years. Workout fads come and go, but virtually no other exercise program is as enduring as yoga.

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