Fortunately, you can cover all three of your major exercise types (aerobic, anaerobic and stretching) through a low-impact activity like yoga. Yoga is not a recent practice.
As a beginner, it is especially important that you practice so that you may see and feel the benefits early on. With yoga, the frequency with which you work on your positions is as important if not more so than the length of the practice sessions. Aerobic exercise is great for burning calories, and strength training works very well for strengthening your muscle groups, but yoga goes far beyond either of those forms of exercise and can benefit you both physically and mentally.
Those who practice regularly report increased flexibility, improved muscle tone, an overall sense of well being and a decrease in stress. Also, breathing deeply into muscles helps lessen pain by altering your perception of it. Psychological benefits can also include an increase in self-confidence, decreased cravings for tobacco and food, better sleep, an increased ability to relax, improved concentration as well as a reduced likelihood of depression.
Each yoga practice ends with some type of relaxation. You can't change it overnight.
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