Speaking of yoga, what can you think of? Most people think of health, weight loss, exercise and stretching ... but this is actually a misunderstanding, and yoga is bringing harm to women all over the world. Because there is a disease in this world, called yoga disease.

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Is yoga beneficial or harmful?

Yoga is a form of exercise that originated in ancient India. It was one of the six philosophical schools in ancient India at the earliest, and it was a movement that paid attention to the harmony and unity of body and mind. Early yoga movements are a series of exercise methods created by practitioners observing and imitating various postures of animals.

Yoga has the functions of promoting blood circulation, enhancing strength and body flexibility, losing weight, shaping, releasing stress and enhancing self-confidence. It is praised as a fashionable way of exercise by urban women. However, with the popularity of yoga, "Yoga disease" has also entered people's field of vision, and some people even made scary headlines such as "Yoga has poisoned women in China", "How many people will be harmed by yoga" and "Yoga can cure all diseases". Many people here don't understand. Is yoga beneficial or harmful?

First of all, yoga is a kind of exercise. There is no doubt that exercise is good for health. Because yoga has the characteristics of gentle movements, coordination with breathing, and more movements tend to control the stability and stability of the body, many people think that yoga with gentle movements and simple movements can be practiced by everyone. As we all know, the process of controlling the body and maintaining an action requires high strength and stability of joint muscles.

Many people who practice yoga think that yoga practice is to exercise the strength and stability of the corresponding parts, and few people do targeted strength exercises. In fact, this understanding is one-sided. With the increasing intensity and difficulty of yoga, it is difficult for the muscle strength and joint stability gained by self-exercise to keep up with the demand of action. At this time, if you don't carry out special strength training and continue to pursue the difficulty of action, you will enter the dangerous period of sports injury, because the muscle strength around the joint is weak, which is easy to cause joint injury.

In fact, the cause of "yoga disease" is not yoga itself, but the lack of necessary scientific fitness knowledge in the process of yoga. By analyzing the injuries of various "yoga diseases", it is found that the main reasons can be summarized as follows:

1, lack of reasonable warm-up exercise before yoga practice. In daily practice, many yoga lovers do not do warm-up exercises, or even directly use simple yoga movements instead of warm-up exercises. In fact, warm-up exercise is a signal to tell the body to exercise, so that the muscles and internal organs of the body have a starting time. If you practice yoga directly, the joint muscles, blood flow and oxygen saturation of the required parts of the movement are in a static state, which is easy to cause ligament strain.

2. There is no corresponding strength practice during yoga practice. Yoga is a whole-body exercise, involving many joints, so we must pay attention to the exercise of muscle strength around each joint. The muscle strength around the joint is the basis to ensure the joint to move within a reasonable range, especially some difficult movements. Without corresponding strength training, it is easy to cause joint dislocation, ligament strain and other injuries due to weak strength around the joints.

3. There is no cardio-pulmonary exercise after yoga practice. Cardiopulmonary function is the foundation of health, and there is seldom a strong state of breathing and circulation for a long time in yoga practice, which has little effect on the improvement and improvement of cardiopulmonary function. Therefore, after practicing yoga, you should also do aerobic exercise at least three times a week.

4, did not follow the "step by step" principle of exercise and fitness. The time, frequency and intensity of exercise are unscientific, without reasonable arrangement and control, and there are situations such as excessive exercise and weekend surprise. This kind of practice will not bring good results to yoga, but will lead to various sports risks and accidents because of excessive physical burden in a short time.

5. I didn't relax after exercise. After practice, many people take a shower, complete the role change, and then go to their daily work and life. And lack of relaxation. Yoga is also a kind of exercise with a certain intensity. Relaxation exercise is a process of telling the body to recover. Through meditation and stretching, all parts of the body can slowly adapt to the cessation of exercise.

Rumor expert: Wu Dongming, associate researcher of National Physical Fitness Research Center, Institute of Sports Science, State General Administration of Sport.

Expert: Sun Biao, Professor of Nanjing Institute of Physical Education.

Producer: Cop China-Scientific Refutation