Can postpartum yoga really slim down?
Using yoga to lose weight won't control your weight within a few weeks like taking diet pills, but the pills often rebound, which may bring various discomforts and diseases. Yoga takes a lot of time, but this method will not produce any side effects that will damage health, appearance, physiology and spirit. Even if you stop practicing yoga, as long as you still follow the principle of yoga diet, your weight will not return to obesity.
The following is the abdominal slimming method I summarized for myself. In the details of daily life, as long as we always pay attention to these basic laws, we can have a slim figure, especially a flat belly that everyone envies.
Eat quietly and carefully
Many people's stomachs are very sensitive, especially women, which leads to recurrent intestinal dysfunction and is always mistaken for colitis. The best preventive method is to have the correct posture when eating, chew slowly, have a quiet environment (such as turning off the TV) and chew fully.
The food should be cooked.
Nowadays, fashionable cooking is half-baked, which makes starch impossible to destroy. Starch sugar in most vegetables and grains accumulates in the large intestine to produce carbon dioxide, which can easily lead to bloating.
Drink more yogurt.
Yogurt and fermented milk can activate substances necessary for digestion and help improve the intestinal microbial system, thus preventing abdominal bulge.
Drink less carbonated drinks and chew less gum.
When drinking aerated drinks or chewing gum, you will swallow a lot of air, especially the polyols contained in chewing gum, which will not be digested by the small intestine.
Walk, drink water, massage.
Walking and drinking water is good for flatting your stomach. At the same time, you can do circular massage on your abdomen every day.
Increase minerals and avoid premenstrual syndrome.
If the waistline before menstruation is larger than usual, you can try to eat foods rich in iron (fruits and dried fruits), calcium (dairy products and mineral water) and zinc (red meat, fish, shells, seafood, etc.). These minerals can help you balance hormones and avoid this PMS.
Yoga movements suitable for postpartum
First, abdominal breathing:
1, kneeling, or sitting cross-legged on the mat, with straight spine;
2. Exhale, then inhale gently, feel the abdomen slowly expand, bulge outward, and separate your fingers. During this breathing, the chest and chest should not swell;
3. When exhaling, slowly close the abdomen, retract inward, and touch your fingers again. Repeat 6- 10 times.
Second, the shoulder arm:
1, inhale, open your feet, raise your arms horizontally in front of you, palms facing each other;
2. Exhale, bend your left arm, hold your right arm and stretch it to the left, while turning your head to the right. Repeat natural breathing for 2-4 times;
3. Inhale, put your hands above your head, put your right arm palm on your back, and exhale. Hold the elbow joint of your right arm with your left hand and slowly pull your right arm to the left. Repeat natural breathing for 2-4 times.
4. Repeat in the opposite direction.
Third, the abdomen:
1, lie on your back with your hands at your sides;
2. Exhale, bend your right leg, support your knees with your hands, and keep breathing naturally for 2-4 times;
3. Inspiratory reduction. Repeat in the opposite direction.
Fourth, the back:
1, the new mother must kneel down first. Then inhale, stretch your right leg backwards, look up and look straight ahead;
2. Bend your right knee, exhale, slowly retract your legs inward, lean on your chest, look down with your eyes, and the tip of your nose touches your knee;
3, reduction, and then repeat in the opposite direction.
Five, pelvis:
1, legs apart, kneeling. Then exhale, the upper body slowly leans back, hands and elbows touch the ground alternately, the head touches the ground, and the back touches the ground;
2. Slowly raise your arm over your head and keep your shoulder blades from leaving the ground. A new mother can put a cushion under her waist;
3. Exhale, restore your arms and slowly restore your upper body.