Recently, a holistic healing enthusiast and one-time Colorado resident told the Palm Springs Sun that he used Colorado yoga classes to shed 120 pounds.
Improving health and fitness with yoga is one thing, but losing nearly half of one's body weight? That's something else entirely. Recently, a holistic healing enthusiast and one-time Colorado resident told the Palm Springs Sun that he used Colorado yoga classes to shed 120 pounds.
Ron Splude, now 58 years old, revealed to the newspaper that he took his first yoga class nearly 30 years ago, and the mind-body regimen has stood him in good stead ever since.
He admitted that at one time he was too large, stressed and generally unhealthy to accomplish even basic tasks.
"I really struggled with [yoga] in the beginning," Splude explained to the news source. "I couldn't sit on the floor without falling over. I was just too fat."
While he had trouble with yoga initially, over time the system gradually made sense to him. Splude went from being morbidly obese to having a trim, healthy physique – and a studio of his own, at that. (He now teaches others to lose weight with yoga.)
Research has shown that holistic stretching and posing can both facilitate weight loss and prevent weight gain, as evidenced in a recent issue of the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine.
It's little wonder that Yahoo! Sports recently promoted yoga as a way to get thin while improving flexibility and relaxation.
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