These 2 yoga poses will strengthen your legs

Be proactive about keeping your legs healthy, start doing yoga!

By: Aishwarya Vaidya | | Updated: July 13, 2018 5:23 pm

Our legs bear the brunt of our busy lives the most and yet is the most neglected part of the body. In order to improve the leg strength, one should be physically active and lead a healthy lifestyle and yoga can be the best choice. Yoga can be a good way to build powerful legs. Also Read - Weight-free exercises to tone every muscle in your arms

Hiral Shah, Founder and CEO, Hiral Shah Wellness Solutions, Mumbai, says, “To keep your legs in great shape and to strengthen your leg muscles, take out few minutes from your busy day and do yoga.” Here, she lists 2 yoga poses to release knots in the legs, improve blood circulation and increase the strength of your knees. Also Read - 3 yoga poses that you can perform against a wall

Supine Garudasana
It releases knots in the legs and improves blood circulation. Also Read - 5 effective yoga asanas that you can perform on your bed

Ideally, garudasana is done while standing. But, many people cannot maintain their balance while doing it, but one can also perform the asana while lying down.
Lie down with back on the ground, legs joined together and hands straight by the side of the body.
Lift the left leg up and curl the right leg around it
Try to straighten and extend the left leg away from the body.
Your breathing should be normal while going and coming out of the asana.
Do 5 rounds of deep breathing while maintaining the asana.
Repeat 5 times alternating the legs. Do you know? Just 25 mins of yoga can boost brain function and energy levels

Supta Padangushtasana

This asana gives your hamstrings and calf muscles a stretch and strengthens your knees.

Lie down on your back with legs stretched out, pressing the feet through your heels.
Bend your both the legs in the knee and keep the feet on the ground.
Further, take the right knee to the chest and loop a strap around the arch of the right foot.
Now, straighten and stretch the right leg up to the ceiling, such that the shoulders are pressing the floor.
Straighten and extend the left leg, pressing the top of the left thing to the floor.
The extension of the right leg must create a comfortable stretch in the back of the leg.
Do few rounds of inhalation and exhalation keeping the right leg up.
Do 10 rounds, alternating the leg each time.

The takeaway message: Make sure that you are doing it the right way!

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Published : July 13, 2018 12:58 pm | Updated:July 13, 2018 5:23 pm

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