Blast 500+ Calories Doing Yoga

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This calorie-zapping yoga routine will melt away pounds while sculpting every major muscle in your body.

By Alyssa Shaffer; Photographs by Dorit Thies

Lose Weight with Yoga

How much can yoga really do for you? A lot. Cyndi Lee, founder of OM Yoga in New York City, has designed a total-body routine that is a mind and body booster. The workout is built around the classic sun salutation series, with challenging core and upper- and lower-body variations added for a fat-blasting twist. Do the entire sequence four to five times through (keep at it for an hour) and you'll burn off the calorie equivalent of a banana split while sculpting your arms, chest, abs, butt, and legs and improving your flexibility.

How it works: Start and finish each circuit with a sun salutation, a four-move series done forward and in reverse that is the foundation of the workout. Every time you do this main series, you'll add a challenging variation to keep your heart rate elevated while toning your whole body. Each sun salutation, plus all of our variations, should take about 15 minutes.

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coreytmitchell wrote:

This does sound good but I'll have a hard time moving away from dirty yoga - http://www.dirtyyogaco.com - It gives me a complete program fresh each week and I am always dripping and soaked through at the end. My entire body has been changing as I've been doing it so far - 8 months - and it's the best shape I've ever been in. I also run twice a week. Dirty Yoga. Like nothing I've ever done before and I can't recommend it more highly. Take a look.

4/9/2013 05:08:50 PM Report Abuse

taylor580 wrote:

I love doing yoga! I find it to be a great way to work out and burn calories with friends and family members. One thing I am really looking forward to is the Together We Yoga event in San Francisco later this month. My roommates and I all plan to go out and do it together!

9/5/2012 01:43:50 PM Report Abuse

a3984502 wrote:

A few months ago I started reading Brilliant Yoga: The Complete Guide to Upgrading Your Body and Life by Sarah Sanders. It helped me discover the amazing benefits of yoga: increased flexibility, stress relief, toned muscles, improved sense of health and wellbeing and so many more. It also helped me lose weight! You must check it out: http://goodlifefitness.org/yoga

3/24/2012 03:15:08 AM Report Abuse

a3984502 wrote:

A few months ago I started reading Brilliant Yoga: The Complete Guide to Upgrading Your Body and Life by Sarah Sanders. It helped me discover the amazing benefits of yoga: increased flexibility, stress relief, toned muscles, improved sense of health and wellbeing and so many more. It also helped me lose weight, which is great! If you want to transform your body, mind and spirit and improve your life quality, just visit Sarah's website at: http://tinyurl.com/yogaforyou

2/13/2012 07:01:22 AM Report Abuse

mattspenn wrote:

Yoga can be a great way to burn calories and lose weight. One of the best ways to lose weight and to keep your weight under check is some kind of an outdoor sport. Here is more on how to burn more calories: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1qaZbmIasM

12/4/2011 09:35:41 PM Report Abuse