Ashtanga Personal Trainer for Fitness Goals
Lifestyle of Working Out, Weight Loss, and Well Being
Sep 21, 2009
A personal trainer is considered when weight gain seems unavoidable or when climbing stairs causes shortness of breath and bending over is distressful. Once the gym membership is ignored and physical activity is painful, personal training is a must. Consider an Ashtanga instructor before signing on to the usual training session in the gym or home.
Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga is a set pattern or sequence of poses which are repeated, modified, and deepened with progress from level 1-(primary) to level 3 (advanced, A, B, C, D). It is an intense sweaty exercise based on breath synchronization with movement. The practice improves mind, circulation, and body. Ashatanga yoga has the benefit for the solo practitioner of repetition of postures and order of poses. The future of fitness may be a return to its roots.
Benefits of Ashtanga Yoga
- Training improves sleep
- A fat burning exercise
- Non-interval training, non weight lifting but end result combines benefits
- Depression lifts with physical activity
- Smart training
- A repeating pattern of exercises allows the new yogi to learn a routine which can be practiced forever by advancing the poses as the student becomes more experienced.
- P Jois, the founder of Ashtanga believed the strength gained through the practice trains the self to control the mind and sense organs.
Advantages of Personal Ashtanga Yoga Training
- No distractions from other students
- Recovering from an injury and needing special attention
- A focused practice – complete concentration of yoga is a focus of the practice
- Convenient hours to suit schedule
- The trainer often provides equipment
- Home or facility location
- Setting personal goals with an experienced facilitator
- Personal guidance helps develop ones own practice
- The instructor helps share the philosophy; this is what makes Ashtanga more than simply an aerobic activity.
Mysore Ashtanga is an Individually Paced Practice
Mysore India is where the individual practice of Mysore Ashtanga originated. It is the home of P. Jois who developed this system based on the centuries old exercise and poses.
In Mysore tradition, each yogi enters the class on his own time and goes through the poses apart from each other yogi. A master instructor supervises by adjusting the asanas of each individual as needed. Mysore Ashtanga is the individual non-class form of Ashtanga yoga. By entering personal training, the new practitioner follows the ancient path of individual yoga self practice and individual pacing of sequences and progress.
Personal Trainer Certifications vs Ashtanga Yoga Certification
There are multiple certifications for personal trainers. There are seemingly thousands of yoga and athletic certifications. These range from the Aerobic and Fitness Association of America, the National Academy of Sports Medicine, the American Council on Exercise to name a few. There are numerous gym and club memberships offring certifications as well as college programs. Sports champions and body builders sometimes assume certification based on experience. Yoga certification consists of 200 and 500-hour course for registered yoga instructors of various skills and talents.
Ashtanga Yoga has one certification in Mysore India. The initial process requires a 3-month stay. This isn’t to say others may not be as worthy for the personal training situation and need but a genuine Ashtanga personal trainer is a luxury not to be brushed aside. One begins a lifetime experience and change. Practicing Ashtanga yoga will change the body and the way of approaching exercise as well as some thought processes.
Try out the instructor before signing for a longer program.
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