Exercise On Your Own With Yoga And Weights - Top 5 Tips How It Can Be Done

If you are the kind of person like me who has no yoga instructors where you live then it can be challenging. Especially if you love yoga like me, here are five great ways to overcome this whilst enjoying yourself in the process.

Do not rush

We can never get it right first time every time; take your time to fully understand how you are meant to conduct each exercise. The good thing is that yoga is what they call an intuitive exercise. Ninety percent of the time you can 'feel it' when you are doing an exercise correctly. You can feel the muscle groups working in unison and comprehend how each exercise is there to challenge you.

Start your warm-up

If you went to a yoga class practicing yoga with weights they would never neglect this important step. Often though if you exercise at home a lot of people tend to skip this parts they wish to jump right in. please ensure you warm-up 10-15 minutes before your training session.

Practice yoga without weights at first

It can be very difficult to master a lot of yoga forms as it is especially with weights thrown into the equation. After you are comfortable with the yoga exercises and have built up sufficiently start to strap on ankle weights and use the hand weights.

Use a mirror for your exercise

At first when you start an exercise watch yourself in the mirror. Do not be embarrassed, by doing this you are making sure you are practicing the right form for the exercise so you are not leaving yourself open to injury or wrong posture. You may have seen people at the gym lifting weights in the mirror, they do this so they are practicing the right form (well some may just be looking at themselves to be fair), this is crucial in weight training and yoga. Do this the first few times you are practicing a new routine. Even with the many DIY yoga DVDs they are often good but you are too intent on watching it and concentrating on the television that quite often your posture and form can go out of the window.

Record your voice

When starting out one of the big problems that I had was that I was doing all the above but I was learning from a yoga fitness manual in the beginning, now there was nothing wrong with the manual and the how to do yoga with weights the problem was that I had to constantly keep referring to the book to ensure I was doing it correctly. Now in a yoga class of course you have someone to do that for you. But the method of recording your voice is really very effective. Record your voice reading the exercises out loud then play back the recording whilst exercising. It gives you the benefit or illusion that you are in yoga and weights class.

Now if you are not comfortable with hearing your voice aloud as I know that a lot of people do not like the sound of their own voice (I don't think I fit that category) then get your partner, relative or friend to do it for you..

For me the above five methods can really make it an enjoyable process practicing yoga with weights at home, and it doesn't cost you anything which in this day and age is a plus.

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