I have a Master’s degree in Exercise Science, so I have a good knowledge of human anatomy and performance. I’ve even conducted my own research on yoga in a lab and compared it to cardio exercise. And you may be shocked to hear what I learned from a recent experiment. Kris is burning as many calories as she would if she was jogging! I had a colleague hook me up to a special device that measures caloric expenditure. Then I did a series of simple yoga postures strung together in something I call a “flow”, which put my body into a perfect fat-burning zone. During one 10-minute flow, the device showed I burned 7 calories per minute. That adds up to 420 calories in an hour — about what I’d burn by jogging! Plus yoga is much better for your joints than jogging. With jogging, I’d have to worry about putting all that stress on my knees and hips. In fact, I had developed bursitis in my hip from all those years of jogging. But with yoga, my joints became stronger and more flexible, ins...
Now, chances are you may not think of yoga as “real” exercise. Maybe you think it’s simply stretching… holding what may seem like awkward poses… or humming “om”. But there’s so much more to yoga. That’s why I want to get the word out to as many people as possible about the amazing body-shaping and life-transforming benefits it can offer you. My name is Kris Fondran. Years ago, I was the last person you’d think of as doing yoga. I was a long-distance marathon runner — and a classic, hard-charging “type A” personality. I always felt I had to run harder and faster in every area of my life: wife, mother, graduate student, and teacher. Then I discovered yoga. Fortunately, I discovered it at a studio that taught yoga in its truest sense: slow-moving, focused, relaxing, and connected to the body. Doing yoga this way transformed my life by helping me finally slow down, instead of always going too fast. Yoga also transformed my body. It’s like the ultimate anti-aging medicine! ...