teen yoga

Teenagers, unless they are interested, many tend to ignore physical fitness while they pursue more social activities. While this is not entirely a bad thing, it would be better if they could find a style of exercise that suited their personality. And they don't have to go to the gym or run 4 miles in order to achieve really great fitness. As a matter of fact, one of the best types of exercise for teenagers and even children is yoga.

One of the most overlooked aspects of fitness is flexibility. Football players, basketball players, and other sports put little effort and emphasis on flexibility and rely instead on brute strength and agility. But there are few athletes of any kind whose athletic performance would not improve with increased flexibility. One of the main reasons for this is that flexibility allows the body to put more strength into their performance.

But you don't have to be incredibly strong or agile to begin with flexibility. Playing professional sports is not one of your goals anyway, you can do just as much to lose weight or keep it off as well as improve posture and stave off stress with the regular practice of yoga as you could with any other combination of physical exercise combined. What does this have to do with teens? I'm glad you asked.

Yoga doesn't have to be practiced in public, although if you want to learn it with your friends that's always a good idea. All you need for yoga is a little peace and quiet and a few feet of open the floor space. While  yoga can benefit people of any age, young people tend to have more natural flexibility, and the early practice of yoga can lead to faster advancement than when your body has had years to get stiff.

Yoga has been proven to be one of the best ways of achieving and maintaining a healthy weight, posture and balance of all the available forms of exercise. It's cheap, easy and you can do it almost anywhere. Beginning to learn and enjoy yoga at 18 can put it somewhere on a lifelong pursuit of excellent health. Besides all of those benefits, is also an awful lot of fun, and once you learn some of the more difficult poses it's not a bad way to show off a little bit either.