Is yoga harmful to your health?

"Recently, there are more and more patients with muscle strain and ligament sprain caused by practicing yoga. There are also articles that point out that yoga is very harmful to the body and is a beautiful lie. "

. So is yoga really harmful to your health? In this regard, the famous fitness expert Zhao Zhixin talked about his own views-

I don't understand the orthopedic experts' statement that yoga can easily lead to spinal injury. In the process of yoga exercise, excessive use of joints and abnormal exertion are very easy to cause muscle strain, but this is a very normal phenomenon. This is not to say that this sport is not good, but that the exerciser's own coping ability is not in place. I don't think we can deny this sport just because we are injured. Just as we can't stay indoors because of a traffic accident.

Yoga is quite beneficial to the exercise of human elasticity. In China, "tendons" are better in medicine, while yoga can exercise a person's extensibility, stretching force, quick strength and so on. Doing yoga can also reduce the chance of getting sick and improve work efficiency.

Zhao Zhixin reminded that before yoga, proper warm-up exercises should be carried out and relevant preparations should be made to avoid physical injury. For special exercisers, such as the elderly and people with joint problems, more attention should be paid.

In addition, Zhao Zhixin also said that practicing yoga should avoid the following misunderstandings:

1, a good one. Nowadays, yoga practitioners all have an idea that after practicing yoga, there is no need to do other exercises, which can achieve the miraculous effect of "one good and one hundred good" for health. In fact, yoga is just a kind of fitness, and you can't just give health to yoga. Take the heart for example. Running is far superior to yoga in exercising the heart.

2. The harder you move, the better. Many people think that if a difficult movement is done well, better exercise effect can be achieved. This is actually a misunderstanding of yoga. Everyone's age, gender, physical condition and other factors are different, and the difficulty of movement can vary greatly. Exercisers should practice according to their own situation.

3. Practice the same yoga at different ages. There are many kinds of yoga, and different ages should be different.

4. Don't think that yoga can only be practiced in a yoga studio. Nowadays, many yoga studios are not real yoga.