How Yoga Can Increase Your Strength

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• Yoga provides a variety of benefits. Stress
  reduction, mental focus, and reduced back pain
  are a few of its many perks. However, yoga
  practice can also improve your strength,
  mobility, balance, and concentration!
• There are several ways of strengthening the body
  through yoga. Let us take a look at the different
  yoga poses that can help you build up strength!

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• Yoga Poses for Upper-Body Strength
• Navasana (Boat Pose)
• The practice of Navasana requires sufficient
  core strength. Sit on your buttock with the legs
  stretched out in the front. Then raise them at an
  angle of 45 degrees to the ground, lifting the
  hands to the front and parallel to the ground.

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• This pose will strengthen the abdomen and spine.
  The core muscles of the abdomen get toned and
  tightened. The lower back muscles are also
  strengthened as well in this process.

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• Salabhasana (Locust Pose)
• If you practice Salabhasana then it will
  strengthen the vertebral column and arms. First
  of all, you have to lay on the floor with your
  torso facing downwards then lift your head
  towards the back and raise your legs upwards
  while raising your arms in parallel above the
  ground. The shoulders and hips are also
  strengthened. This yoga pose works as a full-body
  strengthening asana that relieves fatigue and
  tension in the back.

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• Bakasana (Crane Pose)
• This pose might look bizarre but it is effective
  in strengthening the abdominal organs and wrists.
  First, you lift your legs from the squatting
  position by bending your torso forward. Then you
  have to hold the raised body by the wrists placed
  in between the inner thighs. This will add stress
  to the arms and this type of balancing will
  strengthen both your arms and wrists.

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• Astavakrasana (Eight-Angle Pose)
• Astavakrasana is a hand balance with a lateral
  twist. You have to start it from a squatting
  position, one arm between the feet, the other
  just outside the other foot, palms on the floor.
  Pushing up and lifting both legs from the floor
  gives a variant or preparatory position, with
  both legs bent, one leg over one forearm, the
  other leg crossed over the first at the ankle.
  Straightening the legs gives the full pose.

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• Yoga Poses for Lower Body Strength
• Utkatasana (Chair Pose)
• This yoga pose might seem like a childs play,
  but its not. An Immense effort is required to
  sustain in the asana. You have to sit on an
  imaginary chair and the pose works on stabilizing
  your knees and strengthening your thighs.
  Utkatasana is perfect for making your legs and
  ankles limb and strong.

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• Padangusthasana (Big Toe Pose)
• Big Toe Pose will strengthen and stretch rigid
  hamstrings. First, you bend your torso towards
  your feet and then make your palms touch them.
  This will strengthen your bones, spine, and legs.
  Practice Padangusthasana regularly to strengthen
  your knees, toes, and ankles.

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• Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)
• Trikonasana is a solid lower body strengthening
  asana that works on the legs, knees, thighs, and
  ankles. The legs are stretched apart with a
  one-arm distance in this pose. You are to turn
  the right foot outside at 90 degrees, and the
  horizontally stretched arms make a vertical line
  when you bend on the right at the hip with your
  face looking upwards. This pose also strengthens
  the hips, calves, and buttocks.

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• Kapotasana (Pigeon Pose)
• This pose strengthens the leg muscles and
  joints. Sit in a kneeling position with your legs
  slightly apart. Keep your torso straight. Then
  bend backward, tilt your head towards the ground
  and place the palms on the toes. Kapotasana is
  beneficial in strengthening the thighs, groin,
  and calf muscles along with the joints and
  muscles of the feet and ankles.

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• Final Words
• All these methods above work in strengthening
  the body. But, performing yoga in the right way
  is crucial. If you have no idea on how to start
  yoga then check out our beginner tutorial and FAQ
  at our websitePies Fitness Yoga website which
  will broaden your skills and knowledge about the
  correct poses that are needed to strengthen your
  body.