What Happens When You do Regular Yoga?

Yoga, like all physical activity, contributes to your body’s well-being. Its constant practice will help you to achieve greater mental control and the ability to focus on the present moment.

Reviewed and approved by Doctor Carlos Fabián Avila.

Written by Solimar Cedeño

Last update: 15 December, 2022

Yoga is a discipline with multiple benefits. It provides a connection between the body and the soul. When you start practicing regular yoga, you begin to enjoy countless health benefits.

First, you’ll notice a change in your overall well-being. Your levels of stress and anxiety will decrease, and you’ll learn to become more grounded in the present.

Yoga as a medicinal therapy can be used to improve people’s quality of life. Through this discipline, you can solve health problems such as heart disease, blood circulation, arthritis, back pain, among other things.

In this article, we’ll explain what will happen to your body when you start practicing regular yoga.

The Benefits of Regular Yoga

It increases your lung capacity

Breathing is a key element in this practice because it will allow the brain to get oxygenated and perform the poses properly. In yoga, breathing from your abdomen helps you maintain your balance and give you strength for your poses.

Breathing deeply, inhaling and exhaling through your nose expands your lungs. This not only helps improve the health of your lungs, but the improved oxygen will also help to keep you healthy and clear your mind.  

It strengthens your muscles and joints

When practicing yoga, you will strengthen your muscles and tone your legs, buttocks, back and arms. The poses create resistance that allow your muscles to work.

Meanwhile, joint problems will also improve. The stretching and twisting postures will also help improve your flexibility.

It strengthens your heart and circulation

Yoga positions promote optimal blood flow.

Meanwhile, the breathing exercises will help you regulate your blood pressure. With that in mind, if you suffer from hypertension, this activity will be an excellent therapy to improve your health.

It helps improve your physical endurance

The practice of yoga postures also helps you develop physical endurance. This will help reduce fatigued and exhaustion.

In addition, yogic breathing will help you to have greater endurance while doing cardiovascular exercises. Overall, it will improve your endurance.

It promotes weight loss

Yoga helps you lose body weight because it helps promote the burning of calories. It’s a great form of exercise.

Although it can contribute to weight loss, remember to accompany any physical activity with a balanced diet and healthy habits. 

You’ll notice the benefits of practicing yoga throughout your body on multiple levels. Focus your energy on the practice, and you’ll notice progress after each practice.

Strengthen your mind, body and spirit with yoga!