According to the physiological characteristics and health status of women, the following age groups are the best time for women to practice yoga:
1. Adolescence: Women begin to practice yoga in adolescence, which can help them build a beautiful figure and improve their physical fitness. In addition, yoga can also help them relieve their study pressure and anxiety.
2.20-30 years old: Women in this age group begin to pay attention to physical and mental health and beauty beauty. Practicing yoga can help them adjust their endocrine, improve their digestive system, enhance their immunity and other functions, and also help relieve their work pressure and improve their mental health.
3.30-40 years old: Women begin to enter menopause at the age of 30-40. Practicing yoga at this time can help them adjust their mood, relieve menopausal symptoms and improve their sleep quality. In addition, yoga can help them maintain a healthy weight and figure.
4. After 40 years old: Women begin to gradually enter the old age after 40 years old. At this time, practicing yoga can help them strengthen their physique, improve their balance ability and relieve symptoms such as chronic diseases. In addition, yoga can also help them maintain mental health, enhance self-confidence and delay aging.
The difference between yoga and pilates:
1, Origin: Yoga originated in ancient India with a history of thousands of years, while Pilates originated in Germany during World War I, based on modern medical anatomy, and was used for the rehabilitation training of soldiers in battle.
2. Features: Yoga pays more attention to the cultivation of inner and thinking, and asana is only the external expression of cultivation, emphasizing the control of consciousness fluctuation. Pilates pays more attention to the correct arrangement of body joints and the stability of deep muscle groups, which is characterized by accurate and efficient training.
3. Effect: From the physical level, yoga needs long-term persistence to make obvious changes. Pilates has a short entry time and quick effect, especially in body improvement, shaping, pain treatment and injury recovery.
4. Breathing style: Yoga has abdominal breathing, chest breathing and Wu Jia breathing, while Pilates uses three-dimensional breathing style, and it is called with a nasal nozzle.
5. Exercise: Yoga can move the spine above the waist, expand the chest and improve the respiratory function. It can also change the curvature of the spine by twisting the spine, thus stimulating the adjustment of the nerve center. Pilates, on the other hand, emphasizes lying on the yoga mat, keeping the balance of the body through correct breathing and reasonable training movements, so that the whole body can be coordinated, thus achieving the purpose of exercising the whole body muscles and reducing fat.