Best Time to Do Yoga for Weight Loss

Yoga is the ultimate practice of toning the body muscles, calming the mind and maintaining an overall wellbeing. The practice is widely known to treat even the most chronic of all diseases, including heart diseases, diabetes, and even cancer. Other than these, it is also helpful in easing fatigue, combating stress, depression, and anxiety. Yoga is the natural remedy for weight loss. If coupled with a proper weight loss diet plan, it can do wonders for your skin as well as overall health.

While yoga helps in weight loss, one should not practice it at any given time. Individuals should practice yoga opinionatedly at fixed times in the morning, afternoon, and night. Also, yoga poses must not be practised just after taking your meals. There should ideally be a gap of at least 3 hours between having your food and exercising as it can affect you otherwise. Practising yoga is not as tiresome as the other exercises, hence, it is always advisable to increase the time for yoga and number of repetitions gradually.

While practicing yoga in the evening, individuals can drink lime juice, fresh fruit juice or tea to energize oneself, 45 minutes to one hour before practicing yoga. And if you feel thirsty or dehydrated while exercising, you can drink a glass or half glass of water. Experts suggest that individuals must drink as minimum water as possible prior to the yoga class.

Some of the Most Effective Yoga Poses That should be done in the Morning

Practising yoga in the morning is good as you reap the benefits for the entire day - the extra energy, clarity and presence of mind will be useful in all your activities.

• Surya Namaskar


• Utkatasana (Chair Pose)


• Parivrtta Utkatasana (Revolved Chair Pose)


• Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog)


• Anjaneyasana (Low Lunge)


• Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)


• Viparita Virabhadrasana (Peaceful Warrior)


• Natarajasana (Dancer Pose)


• Prasarita Padottanasana (Wide Leg Forward Fold)


• Ardha Matsyendrasana (Half Lord of the Fishes Pose)


• Marjaryasana/ Bitilasana (Cat-Cow Pose)


• Eka Pada Adho Mukha Svanasana (Three-Legged, downward facing Dog Hip-opener Pose)

Some of the Most Effective Yoga Poses That Should be done in the afternoon:

• Prasarita Padottanasana (Wide Leg Standing Forward Fold Pose)


• Viparita Virabhadrasana (Reverse Warrior Pose)


• Utkata Konasana (Goddess Pose)


• Cobra Pose (Bhujang asana)


• Warrior II (Virabhadrasana II)


• Warrior 3 (Virabhadrasana III)

Some of the Most Effective Yoga Poses That Should be done in the Night:

• Bow Pose (Dhanurasana)


• Hero's Pose (Virasana)


• Pigeon Pose (Eka Pada Rajakapotasana)


• Child's Pose (Balasana)


• Upward-Facing Dog Pose (Urdhva Mukha Svanasana)


• Legs Up The Wall Pose (Viparita Karani)


• Corpse Pose (Savasana)


• Standing Forward Bend Pose (Uttanasana)


• Victorious Breath (Ujjayi Pranayama)

All the poses that are mentioned above extensively help to reduce the overall weight, boost metabolism, tone up your muscles and stretch hips, thighs, shoulders, ankles, back and other body parts. In addition, most of these poses, if practised in the proper manner, give deep rest to the body and mind. These also have emotional level benefits that help to leave one in a calm, peaceful, and meditative state, and peculiarly during meditation, the other systems of the body and metabolism slow down.

Conclusion:

While there is no clearly defined time as to when should one practice yoga or the exercises, individuals should preferably do it in the morning. If it is not possible to do it in the morning, then they can do it whenever they are free, after approximately 3 hours of eating. Experts clearly suggest that individuals should not eat anything just before or after practising yoga.