Poses
Health Benefits
Muscles
Yoga & Fitness
poses
100
Arms extended in front of you as you come onto the balls of your feet and lower your hips into a chair like position to engage your core and thighs. benefits: Strengthens the ankles,calves,knees, thighs, gluteals, core muscles, shoulders and arms.
What is Awkward Pose?
100
As you focus and relax your body, mind and breathing through each pose you release what? This factor negatively contracts your muscles and body which may also increase high blood pressure, insomnia and may lower your immune system.
What is stress
100
While performing balancing table these three muscles are being targeted and engaged
What are deltoids, gluteals, hamstrings, quadriceps, latissimus
100
As most people age, their muscles shorten and their tendons, the tissue that connects muscles to bones, become stiffer. This reduces the range of motion, preventing optimum movement of your knees, shoulders, elbows, spine, and other joints. Yoga helps you improve what?
What is Flexibility
100
At the end of your yoga session when you are ready to meditate you lie in this pose
What is Corpse
200
This pose engages and strengthens your core as you sit and form a V.
What is Boat
200
Twisting poses are thought to wring out venous blood from internal organs and allow oxygenated blood to flow in once the twist is released. Inverted poses, such as Headstand, Handstand, and Shoulder stand, encourage venous blood from the legs and pelvis to flow back to the heart, where it can be pumped to the lungs to be freshly oxygenated. What system in our body does this improve?
What is the Circulatory system
200
The muscles that are engaged as you perform the standing side stretch
What are obliques and rectus abdominals
200
Without exercise, all of us lose muscle mass as we age, which can eventually result in weakness and loss of balance and coordination. Because muscle is such active tissue, it also plays an important role in regulating your metabolism, with every pound of muscle burning about 35 to 50 calories a day.
What is Muscular strength/ Endurance.
200
In this pose you inhale and reach your tailbone up towards the ceiling letting your spine arch and belly drop and exhale as you round your back. This pose helps stretch the middle back,shoulders, abdomen and muscles along the spine.
What is Cat/Cow
300
This pose which is done upside down as you interlace your fingers and support with your elbows improves balance and aids concentration, strengthens the upper back and shoulders as well as the core.
What is half supported headstand
300
During Yoga you tend to take fewer breaths of greater volume, which is both calming and more efficient. In addition, yoga has been shown to improve various measures of lung function, including the maximum volume of the breath and the efficiency of the exhalation. What system does this benefit
What is the Respiratory system
300
As you perform Downward dog these muscles are being stretched and targeted
What are pectorals, deltoids, hamstrings, calfs, achilles tendon and latissimus dorsi
300
If your metabolism is slow, this hinders your body’s natural ability to use body fat efficiently for energy. There are several poses, such as the shoulder stand and the fish pose, which are specific for the thyroid gland. Fat metabolism is also increased, so fat is burned in the furnace of the muscle cell. Yoga also tones and strengthens the muscles, and muscles, being metabolically active, will increase the amount of body fat used for energy. What component of fitness does yoga help you with.
What is Body Composition.
300
As you perform this pose you lie on your shoulders as you lift your legs up and over your head. This pose improves the circulation of blood and lymph, stimulates the thyroid and activates the immune system as your blood from the lower extremities circulate back to the heart.
What is Half Shoulder Stretch
400
This pose strengthens the ankles, legs and upper back, stretches the shoulders, chest, abdomen, thighs and groin muscles. Improves balance and aids in concentration as you place your weight on one foot and grab the inside of the opposite foot and lean forward to counter balance your body.
What is King of Dancer
400
When you contract and stretch muscles, move organs around, and come in and out of yoga postures, you increase the drainage of lymph (a viscous fluid rich in immune cells). This helps the ________System fight infection, destroy cancerous cells, and dispose of the toxic waste products of cellular functioning.
What is the Lymphatic system
400
As you hinge forward bringing your weight to your front foot and reach both arms forward extending your opposite leg back you activate which 4 muscles groups
What is Ankles, thighs, core muscles, back and shoulders
400
Ashtanga yoga which is a much more intense and fast paced style that increases your heart rate for at least 60 minutes can improve what component of health.
What is Cardiovascular Endurance
400
This pose helps people alleviate lower back pain and sciatic nerve pain by loosening and stretching tight muscles around the hips, legs, and lower back.
What is Reclined pigeon or One legged King pigeon
500
This pose is performed by placing your front foot in a lunge position and the back one in a 90 degree angle as your arms are full extended evenly at shoulder level. This pose strengthens the thighs, gluteals, ankles, core muscles, shoulders and arms. As it stretches the groin muscles, chest and hips.
What is warrior 2
500
An important component of yoga is focusing on the present. Studies have found that regular yoga practice improves coordination, reaction time, memory, and even IQ scores. People who practice _______ demonstrate the ability to solve problems and acquire and recall information better—probably because they’re less distracted by their thoughts, which can play over and over like an endless tape loop.
What is Meditation
500
Most Yoga poses are considered Isometric exercise that engage these muscle that protects your vital organs and strengthens the spine.
What is your Core (obliques, latissimus dorsi, rectus abdominal gluteals)
500
Daily Double: Name two skill related components of health that yoga improves that can be used in several activities and in sports such as dancing, Gymnastics, Martial arts etc...
What is Balance and Coordination
500
When performing this pose you improve you balance and concentration as it stretched the hips, groins muscles, hamstrings, chest and shoulders. This pose also strengthens the, ankles, calves, knees, thighs, back and core.
What is Half moon
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