
Yoga counts as more physical activity, especially doing yoga for weight loss is a great way, your best bet when the goal is to lose fat. Although no workout burns fat from specific body parts; Certain yoga poses, when done in the right way, can help you bring about a healthy lifestyle change. So if your body is inclined towards fat loss in your lower legs, a strength-training exercise with the benefits of yoga can help you add size there, but yoga cannot remove fat directly from your particular body part.
Yoga challenges overall health by building muscle, increasing flexibility, and combating stress. Yoga poses often aim to increase flexibility in tight calves, reduce the size of the calves, build longer and thinner muscles, and help your legs look slimmer while protecting the calves from strain.
Add a few simple asanas to your routine plan by targeting all the major muscle groups and paying more attention to your calf muscles – so that you can effectively tone up calves fat and change the shape of different body parts.
What are the different types of Yoga poses to Reduce Calves Fat?
There are plenty of poses and ways, especially curated for doing yoga to reduce calves fat, some of the poses might even help in doing yoga to reduce calves in 2-3 weeks. It depends on how disciplined you are in practicing and acing the necessary poses designated for yoga to reduce calves fat.
Let us have a look at a few sitting and standing calf muscles exercise that can be effective to increase flexibility in tight calves, and build muscle in your calves. The mentioned poses will help to gently release your calf muscles and reverse the shortening that happens every time you walk, run, cycle, etc.
Various yoga to thin calves include: (Calves muscle workout)
Setu Bandha Sarvangasana
- First of all, lie down on your back on the yoga mat and normalize the speed of your breathing.
- Now bend your knees and bring them near the hips, as close as you can get, and keep your hands by the side.
- While breathing in, try to raise your hips by putting pressure on the ground with your hands.
- In the meantime, the feet should remain on the ground, try to lift the waist as high as you can, and do not force any kind of force.
- You can join both your hands together or you can also give some support to the waist with your hands.
- Try to stay in this posture for a while and in the meantime keep breathing and exhaling.
- In the end, slowly come out of this posture and rest for a while.
- Similarly, you can repeat it 2-3 times.
Ardha chandrasana
- Stand straight, heels together, and keep a little distance between the toes.
- Bring both arms upwards, join hands and come to the position of Namaskar.
- Now, while giving full stretch to your hands upwards, inhale, first bend to the left as much as you can.
- Come back while exhaling and then do the same to the right, backward. Take care not to lean forward.
Garudasana/Eagle pose
- Take Squat Chair Pose.
- Putting weight on the left foot, place your right foot on top of the left foot and place it on top of the shin.
- Place the right thigh on top of the left thigh as far as possible.
- Adjust your arms and cross your left arm over the right, cross the wrist and attach your elbow.
- Holding your shoulders, lift your elbows to shoulder height, moving away from your ears.
- Keep your head and spine straight, hold this position for five to seven breaths and repeat with the opposite arms and legs.
Parsvottanasana/ Pyramid pose
- First, you come into Mountain Pose (Tadasana).
- Bring the left foot two to three feet behind the right foot and try to come into the pyramid pose.
- Place your hands behind your back in an inverted prayer position.
- Keeping your hips facing forward, exhale; Hinged at the hips, lean forward over the right leg.
- Take a long breath and lengthen your spine and as you exhale, bring your torso towards the thigh.
- Here you stay for some time and stay in this position for three to five long breaths.
- While inhaling you come back to Tadasana.
- Repeat the same process with the other leg.
Utkatsana/Chair pose
- First of all, stand on the mat and spread your feet at hip width. Keep all the toes of the feet together.
- Extend your arms up, palms facing each other.
- Bend both your knees and come to a sitting position on a chair.
- During this, most of your body weight should be on your ankles.
- Support your knees with your shins.
- Tilt your upper body forward slightly.
- Stretch your shoulder blades toward each other and down.
- Try to keep your shoulders away from your ears.
- In this position, create balance with the help of your tailbone.
- Stay in this position for 60 seconds.
Natarajasana
- First of all, stand straight, keep the claws together and focus on a point in the line of the eyes. Now bend the right knee and hold the ankle behind the body with the right hand.
- Keep both knees in balance. Now slowly lifting the right leg, it is possible to win the taunt backward. However, after taking this test, the right hip did not bend and rose towards the back of the body.
- Bringing the front part of the index finger and thumb of the left hand in knowledge posture, raise the left hand upwards in front of the body. Focus your eyes on the left.
- Create as much state as you can in the body.
- Keep the left hand together and release the right ankle and bring the paw to the ground.
- Bring the right hand down to the side. Now relax and repeat this asana from the left side.
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