Smooth Out Cellulite in 5 Yoga Moves
With 20 minutes of these yoga exercises each day, for six weeks, you can have nicer and smoother skin, with less cellulite.
1.Standing forward bend
- Stand. Keep your feet hip-distance apart.
- Bend forward your torso until your chest touches the upper thighs. Slightly bend your knees.
- Grab your ankles with your hands and slowly straighten legs, making sure your knees don’t lock. Keep your hips over the center of your feet.
- Hold for 5–8 slow, deep breaths.
- Stand with feet together, big toes touching, and ankles slightly apart.
- Bend at the knees, sitting as if into a chair and lift your chest up to the sky.
- At the same time, reach your arms up by your ears and lengthen through the fingertips, keeping shoulders relaxed and ab muscles held in.
- Lower your back as sitting as far as you can (try a 90-degree angle with your legs). Keep your back straight.
- Hold for 5–8 breaths before standing up; repeat 3 more times.
2.Chair pose
- Stand with feet together, big toes touching, and ankles slightly apart.
- Bend at the knees, sitting as if into a chair and lift your chest up to the sky.
- At the same time, reach your arms up by your ears and lengthen through the fingertips, keeping shoulders relaxed and ab muscles held in.
- Lower your back as sitting as far as you can (try a 90-degree angle with your legs). Keep your back straight.
- Hold for 5–8 breaths before standing up; repeat 3 more times.
3.Cow face pose
- Sit down. Slide your right leg back to cross over your left leg, squeezing high at the inner thighs. Open your feet out to the sides of your hips, and sit back between your heels.
- Hold for at least 8–10 breaths, then switch legs and repeat.
4.Bridge pose
- Lie on your back with knees bent and feet flat on a mat, hip-distance apart.
- Lift your hips and butt off the ground.
- Push your shoulders down away from your ears and interlace hands under your hips, pressing fists into mat.
- Tighten hamstring, butt, and core muscles, and hold for 5–8 breaths. Lower slowly to the ground, then repeat 2 more times.
- Lie on a mat; bend knees.
- Lift feet, butt, and lower back off mat and reach legs overhead, aiming toes toward the ground behind you.
- Bend elbows and place palms against lower back for support as you lift legs and reach feet toward ceiling.
- Hold for 30 seconds, working up to 5 minutes.
5.Supported shoulder stand
- Lie on a mat; bend knees.
- Lift feet, butt, and lower back off mat and reach legs overhead, aiming toes toward the ground behind you.
- Bend elbows and place palms against lower back for support as you lift legs and reach feet toward ceiling.
- Hold for 30 seconds, working up to 5 minutes.
Add 30 minutes per day of cardiovascular exercises for total success!