If you’re on a quest to drop a jeans size (or more), yoga can help you get there. I don’t recommend it as your main form of exercise to lose weight – heart-pumping cardio such as running or biking will burn more calories per minute – but it’s a great complement to any weight-loss program. Here’s why: Tones Muscle and Burn Calories Strength training burns calories and builds muscle, and yoga is definitely a form of strength training that uses your own body weight as resistance. Yoga is a total-body toning workout that effectively strengthens your arms, lower body, and core. And since many

classes are 90 minutes long, depending on how vigorous the style is, you’ll burn between 250 and 550 calories a class ! Helps You Avoid Overeating It’s not recommended to eat less than two hours before a yoga class – having undigested food in your belly while doing pretzel-like poses is not the smartest idea. If you know you have a 5:30 vinyasa class to get to, you’ll think twice about your 4 o’clock candy bar or muffin splurge. Read on for more ways hitting the yoga mat can help you drop pounds

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How Yoga Can Help You Lose Weight