Can men lose weight by practicing yoga?

In daily life, we often hear many male friends complain about their obesity, and in more serious cases, they even have beer bellies, which makes them look several years older. Therefore, many men are looking for various ways to lose weight. Therefore, some friends asked, can men lose weight by practicing yoga? In response to this question, please join me in the following learning content.

Researchers have concluded that the real health benefits of yoga come from relaxation. Yoga activates the body's relaxation response, slowing down the heartbeat and breathing and returning blood pressure to normal.

The American Journal of the Endocrine Society also pointed out that a 50-minute yoga class can reduce stress hormones in the body. The Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York provides meditation and yoga classes to all post-heart surgery patients to help them recover.

Yoga, which relieves stress and anxiety, is also helpful for pain control. A study published in the journal Rheumatology and Joint Medicine in 1994 showed that practicing yoga can reduce finger pain and tightness during activities in patients with hand osteoarthritis.

Yoga is also helpful for calming down emotions. In 1997, the San Francisco Prison in the United States launched a Resolve to Stop the Violence Project for robbers and drug addicts, using yoga and drama therapy to help criminals calm down and find out the reasons for their aggressive crimes. A Harvard University study found that 80% of prisoners who stayed in this program for more than four months could reduce their chances of committing crimes again. In addition, in Europe and the United States, yoga is used as an auxiliary means of late-stage rehabilitation for mental patients.

But it doesn’t stop there.

Maharishi Patanjali, the "Father of Yoga", in his Yoga Sutras, advocates that yoga is an eight-limbed body, which are:

Yama - moral precepts, including non-violence, moderation, integrity, non-theft, and non-greed.

Niyama - Maintain piety and practice self-purification. This includes purity, contentment, practice, recitation, and prayer.

Asana - Yoga posture.

Pranayama – the control of breathing and the manipulation of energy.

Pratyahara - Practice sound meditation to focus your senses, which is a preparatory step before practicing concentration. Eliminate thoughts and free your mind from the senses and external objects.

Dharana - focusing your attention to enhance your life energy is a preparatory step before meditation.

I believe that through the above learning, most of our friends have a deeper understanding and more proficient mastery of whether men can lose weight by practicing yoga. Of course, I want to say one more thing to everyone, yoga movements are also diverse, of course, many movements are still difficult for beginners. So I hope everyone must have the determination to persist and never give up halfway.