Yoga - burns calories, helps to lose weight

Depending on what type of yoga you are practising, do you know that yoga can actually help you to lose weight?

Hatha Yoga can burns up to 180 calories per hour, while Ashtanga Yoga burns about 300 calories per hour, followed by Vinyasa Yoga which burns about 445 calories per hour and the Hot Yoga or Bikram Yoga burns up to 630 calories per hour.
(*recommends: always consult your yoga practitioner for the best suitable form of yoga for you before performing).

Yoga is one of today's most popular form of exercise, its activity calms the mind and soul, increases body flexibility and strengthens muscles.

Below are some of the benefits you can get from yoga:

• Strong body - Yoga involves all the muscles in your body to hold and balance the poses (yoga asanas). These postures banish fatigue and strengthen your feet, legs, hands, abdominals, lower back, legs and shoulders.
• Improved range of motion - Stretching your tight body in new ways will help it to become more flexible, bringing greater range of motion to muscles and joints. Over time, you can look forward to gaining flexibility in your hamstrings, back, shoulders and hips.
• Prevention of pain - With gentle stretching and strengthening of yoru neck and back muscles, yoga prevents back pain. It also improve alignment, which helps prevent other types of pain.
• Improved circulation - Yoga helps you get rid of tension headaches and migraine headaches because it circultates blood and oxygen to your head.
• Lower blood pressure - Gentler forms of yoga, such as Hatha Yoga, helps lower blood pressure because the poses keep blood bflowing evenly throughout your body as you focus on your breathing.
• Calmer and steady mind - Concentrating on yoga poses intently clams the mind. Yoga also incorporates meditation techniques, teaching you ways to disengage from your thoughts. You will also enjoy a better quality of sleep.
• Reduced stress - Yoga is an effective form of psychological therapy. Because it brings your mind to the present, yoga removes problems and troubling thoughts during the exercise and reduces anxiety and stress as well, which results in better mood and concentration.

Computer-induced arm pain

Repetitive strain is a creeping threat for any 21st century computer user.
Constant mouse clicking may seem innocent, but many computer users find that pain starts in their arm and eventually spreads to their wrist and shoulder.

“Anyone who hunches over a computer and makes a series of short, quick movements risks a painful inflammation of the lower arm and its musculature,” said Nils Graf Stenbock-Fermor, head of the German Orthopaedic Association.

Anyone spends long hours in front of the computer have begun to recognise the symptoms - the pain around their shoulder and up to the neck, this problem is known as RSI (repetitive strain injury).

Women can be more susceptible than men, but, in general, it depends on the person’s career.
The first signs usually range from prickling sensations to loss of feeling and numbness in the affected body parts. It involves various pains that develop between the wrist and shoulder.

Initial symptoms usually break out after long periods working at a PC, but will disappear overnight. In chronic forms of the disease, pain breaks out during everyday activities like ironing or shifting gears in a car.
To treat the problem you can use medication to minimize the symptoms, but in the longterm, they just mask the actual causes.

Therefore, it is important to take proactive steps to prevent the pain.
In therapy, stretching and strength-building exercises and exercise are used. Warmth can also be used to relax muscles while cold compacts can be used to relieve the pain.

The best thing to do is to change your work area, that could mean using keyboards, hand rests and computer mice that are designed like joysticks and force the user’s hand into a different position.

You should also have a chair that doesn’t force you to sit up too straight or hunch over and a monitor that can be adjusted according to viewing angle and the way a person sits.

So using proactive steps such as stretching , muscle relaxation techniques and strenth-building exercises could help alleviate repetitive strain injury symptoms brought about by working long hours at PC.