Some important tips

• Potassium or calcium deficiency can cause weakness in joints and bones. Make milk and banana your breakfast diet.
• Don't go for long walks or spend hours on the treadmill. Exercise only to your capacity and increase gradually.
• Avoid flooring work. Do exercises sitting on a hard bed.
• Wear comfortable shoes, which are suitable for walking.

Here are some simple exercises to help you get leggy with it!

KAPALBHATI KRIYA

• Pic for representational purpose only

  Sit comfortably on the chair, neck straight.
• Place both hands on your thigh, palm facing upwards, eyes closed.
• Exhale forcefully through both nostrils, simultaneously pulling your stomach in.
• Repeat this till you are tired.

Note:

• Keep your body still during the kriya.
• Breathe out completely and relax.
• Increase the process gradually and repeat this kriya three times.

Benefits:

• Fights obesity
• Clears toxins from air passages
• Combats asthma
• Massages abdominal organs and muscles

Caution:

Though these ailments are unusual in the young, just in case you have heart disease, high blood pressure or hernia, please exhale gently.

TITALI ASANA

• Pic: www.ashramplus.com/

  Sit and stretch your legs forward.
• Bend them at the knees and spread them to join the soles of your feet.
• Interlock your hands and hold your feet at the toes.
• Now raise and lower your knees in quick succession, to simulate the fluttering of a butterfly.
• Repeat this continuously, 15-20 times.

Benefit:

Removes stiffness from leg joints

Ankle Stretches

• Keeping the legs stretched taut, move your feet at the ankle.
• Try and stretch it as far forward as possible and then as far back as possible.
• Repeat this 8-10 times.

Ankle Rotation

• Stretch your legs.
• Rotate both the foot in clockwise and anticlockwise direction, making a circle.
• Repeat 4-5 times.

Thigh Stretches

• Stretch your legs forward.
• Keep a pillow under your knees.
• Now press your knees downwards gently on pillow.
• Hold the position for some time.
• Repeat this 4-5 times.

Times Wellness Workshop on ‘Handling Knee pain’ with a yoga demonstration will be held on 26th February 2010 at Apollo Hospital, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi at 3:30 pm.

Call – 011 23782396, 23782765 for more details
To register, mail timesfoundation@timesgroup.com