Don’t stress if you cannot head to your favourite yoga studio or your health club these days. Make quarantine the best time to lose weight and detox your body. Though the quarantine is a great way to lose some weight and tone your body, it can actually bounce back on you and make you gain weight too. Take caution, since you’re spending more than the usual time at home, many of you might eat anything and everything at any given time, resulting in more weight gain. Eating packaged foods, chips, chocolates, cakes, cookies, peanuts etc won’t do you any good either, so try and avoid. Stick to a few simple exercises every day.
Yoga guru Hemalatha K shares some simple yogasanas that you can follow at home.
Here are some tips and exercises that will help you lose weight and detox.
Don’t strain yourself, the main key is to listen to your body and exercise accordingly.
- Squats, lunges and leg kicks gives greater shape to the lower body.
- Yoga asanas like
- Tadasana
Improves postures, reduces flat feet and firms abdomen and buttocks.
- Padahasthasana
Improves digestive health, reduces lower belly fat, improves blood circulation.
- Trikonasana+
Stimulates functions of abdomen organs, beneficial to burn fat from stomach, waist, thighs and back.
- Naukasana
Tones legs and arm muscles, helps to reduce belly fat and strengthens back and abdominal muscles.
- Bhujangasana
Decreases stiffness of the lower back, stretches chest and abdominal muscles reducing belly fat.
- Pawanamukthasana
Massages the organs of the abdomen and also eases tension that occurs in the area of the belly and lower back, reduces stomach gas.
- Suryanamaskara
Helps lose weight, gives glowing face, helps your body to detox. Do 2-3 cycles at a slow pace.
These asanas will help you keep balanced, calm and fit during these stressful times and help you keep focussed on your goals.
