Yoga Also Help Tighten and Strengthen up your Muscles.

Yoga is also considered to be an excellent workout program for the whole body. Yoga has a variety of exercises for each of the separate abdominal areas. They start with the simpler moves for the novice and gradually move towards more difficult and intense movements for the more advanced.

As you become more experienced and your body begins to limber up you will be able to perform these more difficult movements with ease, and you will notice your complete body toning up and will gain a more relaxed state of mind. Yoga, again involves the whole body, as any good exercise regime should.

Keep in mind that just because one trainer may consider a specific exercise to be the best stomach exercise, it does not necessarily mean it is the best for everyone. Each individual's body is unique and will respond differently to certain movements.

Any one that is serious about working on the abdominal muscles should try a variety for each muscle group to determine which ones they are most comfortable with and that bring the best results. The best scenario is combining the stomach area with other areas of the body for an all around, unified work out system

If one exercise creates too much of a strain and is too difficult to do correctly, or if it feels as though it has not done anything for the muscle group worked, then clearly, that exercise is not the best for you and you should find what does work best. This, however, will not apply to Yoga exercises as they are geared to start out slow and easy. They might feel as if they are not accomplishing their goal, but with time, the movements will become more intense as the body becomes adjusted to the movements.

Whatever routine you should decide on, don't be in too big of a rush to achieve your goal. It is important to remember that, as with all things, it will take time to get the desired results. After all, it took time to get you into the state you are now in. It didn't happen over night.

You will need to make the commitment to stick to whatever program you are comfortable with until you have the flat stomach muscles that you want. The good news is that stomach muscles respond very well to even a little exercise. Add a good healthy diet to your exercise routine, and you will most surely see results.
HATHA YOGA

Hatha Yoga can help you towards a better physic, better health and calm your mind so that you can solve your personal problems. I do want to stress two facts.

Firstly, that the aim of Hatha Yoga is not to get you into prime physical shape, but is the discipline and the purification of the body that we may forget our earthly shell enough to reach a state of heightened awareness through the control of the mind. The physical attributes are a plus that comes with the discipline of the exercises.

Secondly, that Hatha Yoga is neither the easiest nor the fastest system of physical culture to show results, however when you first start out your yoga regime, the exercises are simple and fluid until your build your your muscle elasticity.

If Yoga isn't easy why should I choose it?

Why not weight lifting, aerobics, sports, swimming, or even dancing? All of these will improve the circulation, the figure, strengthen the body muscles and yes, tighten your stomach muscles.
What has Hatha Yoga to offer in addition to this?

Simply that Hatha Yoga will provide an extraordinary control over the body and awaken the mind and spirit, the higher self if you like, as no purely physical activity could possibly do.

Also, a large section of the community such as the aged, the infirm, the lame, and the physically frail are unable to perform the above mentioned activities. Those activities involve rigorous and rapid movement. Hatha Yoga does not. It is essentially a static science.

Basically one moves slowly into aYoga position or asana and remains so for as long as possible. Stress is laid on pressure of certain organs, glands and muscles rather than on movement. When movement is used it is always gentle and graceful, similar to a ballet.

Anyone and everyone can benefit from Yoga regardless of age, sex, race, vocation, or religious belief. It is a universal science. It can lead to more abundant living and a new awareness of higher things through ridding your body of the pains and diseases which drag your mind down into the earth when it wants to wing its way upwards towards the light.

Even if you do not aim at mental discipline, and I know, many of you do not, you can still, with disciplined practice, improve your general health beyond belief.

You will find that once you gain Yoga knowledge,it will begin to influence and help you in your daily life, no matter who you are. It will gradually influence every part of your life, from your attitude towards others to the way you sleep, breathe, think, and even eat.

Did I say eat? What has eating to do with Yoga?

It has very much to do with it. It is a strange fact that Yoga’s doctrine of non-violence very soon influences even the most enthusiastic meat-eaters to think again about adapting a vegetarian diet, or at the very minimum cutting out the red meat in ones diet. You will also tend to eat more fruits, vegetables and whole grains which will have a tremendous impact on your weight.

Whatever your reasons (and there can never be a bad reason for doing something good) for looking into Yoga as a means to tighten your stomach muscles or smooth out your wasteline, Yoga can help you with your everyday problems on all levels. As you grow healthier and more relaxed you become a gentler person, less inclined to fits of irritation and temper. Yoga provides the counter-weight so urgently needed to the ever increasing nervous, mental and physical tensions of our modern life.