Build a stronger core with a touch of yoga (Video)

Say good-bye numerous crunches and sit-ups!

Say, hello to completing a yoga routine centered on helping you build stronger abdominals with yoga poses that help tone, strengthen and construct a leaner core.

During a regular yoga practice, the body uses different muscle groups that increase overall flexibility, balance, and strengthen the abdominals.

For instance, Boat pose (Navasana) and Arrowhead Plank concentrates on the abs while stabilizing, improving posture and core strength of the mid-section and arms.

Seated Forward Bend (Paschimottanasana), another yoga pose that helps shape leaner, stronger abs while trying to maintain legs in the air and engage torso in this particular pose.

Another great pose, Revolved Triangle Pose (Parivrtta Trikonasana) that allows slight twisting working the obliques.

Try completing these poses for a 15-minute to 25-minute sequence, with repeating each pose at least two to three times and holding poses for 4-minutes each.

Then finish your practice with some final relaxation of deep mediation breathing or corpse pose.

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, Baltimore Fitness Trends Examiner

Deborah Green is a freelance multimedia journalist, college professor, Registered Yoga Instructor, USATF Coach and Notary Public. As a contributor writer of Baltimore Fitness Trends Examiner she shares a wide-range perspective on fitness and dieting. The National Junior-Olympian became the first...

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