If properly performed under able supervision, appropriate yoga postures can provide you with arms to move and perform tasks with confidence.
In a bid to develop strong and toned arms, the wishful ones inadvertently gravitate towards the gym with an aim to lift weights to help them achieve the desired result quickly. Yoga asanas, though are associated with gracefulness and the ones which can help with agility, is seldom seen as a discipline that can also aid in the sculpting of the arms and infusing them with strength.
If properly performed under able supervision, appropriate yoga postures can provide you with arms to move and perform tasks with confidence.
How Does Yoga Benefits The Arms?
When one performs the relevant asanas, it stretches, strengthens, and tones the limb to give them a uniform shape and in equal proportions. These exercises keep the rotation function of the arms and the shoulders active and healthy, and because they improve the blood circulation, the arms get nourished from the inside. Along with the practice of the art of balancing with your arms, which helps you achieve physical equilibrium, you, simultaneously build up your mental equanimity as well. To derive the best results, you will need to devote at least 20 minutes a day to do to the following routines.
Triangle Pose (Trikonasana)
An ideal asana for the arms, it not only enhances the strength and the balancing power of the arms but also stretches and tones the shoulders as well.
Upward Plank Pose (Poorvottanasana)
Since this asana will let the weight of the body exert on the arms, it is great for strengthening them as well as the breast and the shoulders too.
Superman Pose (Viparita Shalabhasana)
Along with stretching and strengthening the hands on the shoulders, this asana also improves the blood circulation to the arms and hands, thereby helping them maintain stability.
Cobra Pose (Bhujangasana)
Already instrumental in steadying and strengthening the arms, it also opens the shoulder in the neck further toning the limbs.
Downward Facing Dog Pose (Adho Mukha Svanasana)
This will rotate your shoulders and distribute the weight between the arms and the legs, to tone them up.
Dolphin Plank Pose (Makara Adho Mukha Svanasana)
A variation of the above pose stretches the legs to strengthen and tone the arm muscles.
Locust Posture (Shalabhasana)
This one tightens & tones the nerves of both arms and the shoulders and strengthens them.
Warrior Pose (Veerabhadrasana)
Stretching and strengthening the shoulders and the arms, it additionally also improves the balance instability e in the body, helping the arms to better perform their functions.
Bow Pose (Dhanurasana)
While exercising and rotating the arm & the shoulder muscles, it tones up the arms.
