Fitness Healts

According to a new study, average 50-year-old leads a fitter and healthier life than someone half their age.
The study says that people in their 50s are determined to get most out of life, by turning their backs on the car and the sofa to keep fit.
The average 25 year old takes 2,300 calories a day, exercises only thrice a week and munches on 12 types of junk food every month, researchers said.
Compared to 25-year-olds, 50-year-olds take below 1990 calories daily, spends exercising more time and does at least 4 different types of activity.
The older generation gives into the temptation of junk food just once each week. The survey also shows people in their mid-20s tuck into three takeaways a month, while 50-somethings have only one.
Many young people are not understanding the benefit of balanced and holistic approach to diet and lifestyle.

            Yoga pose works on your mind and body and makes your body lighter and healthier.
Yoga pose helps in supply of blood to brain and various parts of the body.
Your body becomes purified and you become healthy and conscious.
Some of the yoga poses are described here.
Lotus pose (padmasana): Lotus pose requires crossing your legs while keeping your back straight. Sit down on the floor with legs stretched and keeping your palms down. Hold your right foot and put it on the left thigh until it touches the hip joint. Similarly, hold your left foot and put it on the right thigh until it touches the hip joint. Keep your hands upwards or downwards.
This pose has lot of benefits such as increasing attentiveness, stimulating body parts, relaxing effect and increasing awareness. It also develops in maintaining good body posture.
Easy pose (sukhasana): Easy pose is a comfortable seated position for meditation. Sit on the floor by crossing the legs and placing the feet below the knees. Place your palms facing up on the knees. Press your hip bones down in to the floor. Drop the shoulders down and back and press the chest forwards. This pose is used to open the hips and strengthen the spine.
Yoga pose (yogasana): Yogasana requires sitting and crossing your legs. Put your hand behind you and hold the left wrist with right hand. With deep breath slowly bring your forehead and nose in contact with the floor. Exhale as you lower your head. Keep your head on the floor for about ten seconds and rise up slowly breathing in as you reach the initial position.
Hero pose (virasana): sit on your heels and legs underneath you. Keep your knees together, lift the buttocks and move your feet apart placing them on either side of the buttocks. Place your hands on the thighs, palms facing up. Sit straight, relax your shoulders and face muscles.
Corpse pose (shavasana): Lie down quietly on the surface on your back. Rest your hands at your sides and keep your palms facing up. Make your mind clear. Take long breaths with your mind in relaxed condition.
Bow pose (dhanurasana): Lie down on the stomach and reach back and grasp your ankles and inhale. Lifting your legs, head and chest, arch the back into a bow. Retain your breath, exhale and lie flat. Repeat it four to five times.
Wind relieving pose (pavana muktasana): This pose can relieve unwanted gases from your body. The excess gas would be removed from the stomach and the digestive system will be improved. Lie down on your back. As you inhale, bend your knees. Wrap your hands around right leg and press it to your chest. As you exhale release the leg. Raise your chin to your knee, breath and relax. Repeat the same procedure with the left leg.
Yoga poses are very effective and they have many benefits:
It helps in reducing the weight loss and illnesses and makes your body healthy.
It massages the internal organs of the body.
It increases the flexibility of the body.
It helps in reducing health problems such as arthritis, backache and digestive problems.

            Yoga is an integrated means of synchronizing mind, spirit and body and is an essential way of life.
Yoga is an ancient Indian body of knowledge that dates back more than 5000 years ago.
The word “Yoga” came from the Sanskrit word “yuj” which means “to unite or integrate.”
Yoga is an art and takes into consideration your mind, body and soul in reaching divinity. Your body must be purified and strengthened through various practices.
Yoga focuses on harmony and body. The aim of yoga is to strike the balance between mind and body to attain self-enlightenment.
To achieve this, yoga uses breath, movement, relaxation, meditation and posture in order to establish a healthy, balanced and lively approach to life.
Yoga offers various modes of effective physical therapy that can help alleviate painful conditions such as stiffness of neck, improved blood circulation, arthritis, constipation, back and feet, improving respiratory conditions, increasing lung capacity and relieving insomnia.
The basic idea of yoga is to unite the individual or atma soul with universal or paramatma soul. By cleansing your mind and controlling your thought process, you can return to that primitive state when you are nothing but a part of the divine self.
The three main aspects of yoga are:

Asanas or poses: 

The various poses of yoga give your body flexibility, strengthen the muscles and reduce the fat. Many asanas are aimed at improving the blood circulation and functioning of specific organs in your body.

Pranayama or breathing:

Pranayama is the important aspect of yoga which purifies the subtle energies flowing through the body. The breathing techniques of yoga are an effective tool to energize, harmonize, calm and tranquilize the body and mind. All poses are to be properly coordinated with exhalation, inhalation and holding of breath.

Meditation:

Meditation is a way to control the mind’s restlessness. Regular meditation trains your mind to be calm, relaxed and detached. It is extremely helpful in stressful situations. It controls overreaction, losing temper and emotional outbursts.
Meditation and pranayama have capacity to reduce the stress inducing hormones. It restores calm, promotes positivism and encourages patience. It will keep you fresh and rejuvenated both physically and mentally.

The aim of yoga is knowledge of the self. Yoga outlines methods of achieving this.
eternal vows or yamas
observances or yamas
yoga postures or yogasanas
breath control exercises or pranayama
withdrawal of senses from distractions outside the world or pratyahara
concentration on an object, place or subject or dharana
continuance of this concentration meditation or dhyana
ultimate stage of yoga meditation or samadhi
Benefits of Yoga:

There are numerous benefits of yoga. Some of the benefits of yoga include improvement in mental health, anti-aging, development of personal and social values, increase in knowledge and wealth, balance and flexibility of the body. Yoga also helps in improving sexual life, weight loss, and strength.
Yoga is a good way of relaxation. It can ease the tension building in your muscles and joints without experiencing overexertion and fatigue. Yoga makes you look younger. Yoga provides inner peace and radiant health.
Healing benefits of yoga are enormous that you feel better at the end of recovery. Yoga enhances your understanding of life. Yoga changes your perspective about life.
You can see positive effects of yoga as you practice it. The sense of feeling good envelops around you.
The driving force of yoga is aimed at monumental, life changing discovery of who and what you actually are. Yoga gives you the strength to unravel the truth with which you will begin to live with security, confidence and inner psychological peace. Yoga changes your life.

Before starting yoga remember these points:
If you want to enjoy don’t push too hard. You may hurt yourself in the process.
Know your body limits and workout.
It is recommended to start with a yoga teacher.
consult a health care professional before starting the yoga exercises if you have any medical conditions