Best Yoga Moves

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raj7survey      

can someone suggest some yoga moves which will work the abdominal Pooch - that is the lower ab , belly watever...
i know cardio will only help in overall reducing body fat.. but still want to incorporate yoga moves - like the bridge or something pleas elet me know

Tue May 15, 2007 4:20 am 

RedRox      

Don't know any specifically. Would expect using yogasana to spot reduce would be as ineffective as using any other "ab only" program to spot reduce. You really can't target any particular area to lose fat. You can build core strength underneath it though. Things like plank, side plank, boat, cobra, locust, floor bow, etc. come to mind as possibilities.

You could try the yoga journal "poses" page here: http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/index.cfm?ctsrc=tnav and plug in "abdomen" for the anatomical focus and it comes up with a bunch of search results that might help provide some guidance. I'm not an instructor, but it would seem to me to be counter to basic yoga concepts to do a practice of only abdominal forward bending work though. Would seem to need some balance with backbends and overall body work as well.

If it's just lower abdominal work, I'd look into a stability ball and various exercise for that prop that are designed to work that area. I see a lot of accomplished yoginis that still have a "pooch" with an incredibly strong core. They are certainly not mutually exclusive.

Wed May 16, 2007 6:57 pm 

   
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