#13 Understanding Fitness and Scientific Approach to Yoga with Yogaguru Shailender

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Yoga and fitness are often looked as contradictory terms in modern approach to fitness. However, yoga has all the means and tools to help achieve the fitness goals.

Yogaguru Shailendra Singh will is a Yoga & Pilates Instructor for 15 years and runs a Yoga & Pilates studio, he conducts Yoga Teachers Training Programs and Graduation and Post Graduation programs in Yoga. Yogaguru Shailendra has also done Diploma in Naturopathy and is a Reebok Core Pilates Trainer.

He is deeply into fitness yet has a meditative way of life. He practices Yoga as a part of life and possesses deep knowledge about psychology, power yoga and fitness yoga. He is also a been a sportsperson with keen interest in football, cricket, badminton & hockey. He is the founder of Holistic Health Care Foundation.

QUESTIONS

- Confusion about fitness and yoga are two separate forms. Discussion on right understanding.

- Difference between modern fitness such as pilates, zumba and fitness with Yoga?

- Fitness parameters a person must have to have a healthy life like cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility.

- Achieving fitness results through Yoga on the parameters of strength training, weight training, muscle endurance and others.

- In what case a person needs to merge modern approach to fitness like gym activities or zumba or pilate or weight training activities with Yoga.

- Does fitness training with modern approach help to achieve advanced yoga postures?

- If someone does Yoga regularly and intermediate to advanced level, do they still need any other form of fitness regime to support different fitness parameters?

- How can one do strength training and weight training purely with Yoga?

- Fitness focus one must one have in 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond?

- Women begin to lose muscle mass as late 30s hits that shows all over as sagging skin, loss of strength & energy concerns. How to support muscular health with yoga in that age.

- Impact of muscle loss on health in case women do not set up a muscle supportive regime.

- Dietary requirements of a person in yoga practice like lubrication for flexibility and calcium for bone strength, protein for muscles.

- Muscle soreness that happens with power yoga or advanced yoga often demotivates many. What is your advice on that.

- What form of Yoga is best to achieve the fitness parameters? Is it Hatha, Ashtanga, any specific Vinyasa or Power Yoga?

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