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A woman did yoga every day for 5 years. Here's how her body and diet changed.
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Klavdiya Finogina 通过每日瑜伽,彻底改变了她对运动、饮食和身体形象的看法。她最初为了外貌而被迫健身,但后来通过在线瑜伽找到了乐趣。如今,她不仅能完成引体向上,还享受着健康的饮食,并养成了冥想的习惯。这篇文章讲述了她如何通过瑜伽建立起可持续的运动习惯,并最终拥抱健康生活方式的故事,强调了享受运动的重要性。

🧘‍♀️ **开启瑜伽之旅:** Finogina 在2020年通过20分钟的在线瑜伽课程,开始改变她对运动的态度。最初,她为了外貌而被迫去健身房,但缺乏热情。瑜伽的趣味性和挑战性让她产生了兴趣,并逐渐形成了每日练习的习惯。

💪 **力量与肌肉的增长:** 瑜伽不仅改变了 Finogina 的运动方式,也帮助她增强了力量和肌肉。她现在能做引体向上,并且对自己的身体更加自信。瑜伽中的倒立等高难度动作也锻炼了她的平衡和协调能力。

🍎 **饮食的转变:** 通过瑜伽,Finogina 开始更加关注身体的感受,并逐渐改变了她的饮食习惯。她现在更倾向于选择全食物,并根据自己的身体需求来调整饮食。这种直觉饮食方式让她感到更有活力,也更享受食物。

💖 **拥抱身体,享受当下:** Finogina 过去的运动是为了达到某种外貌标准,而现在她享受运动带来的乐趣,并以此来连接自己的身体。她不再执着于外貌,而是欣赏自己真实的身体状态,这让她获得了内心的平静和满足。

Klavdiya Finogina has done yoga every day for five years.

Klavdiya Finogina can do a pull-up, eats nutritious whole foods, and meditates daily — but she never set out to lead such a healthy lifestyle. It started with a 20-minute yoga class in 2020.

Like many young women, Finogina, a 25-year-old freelance photographer based in Toronto, felt pressure to work out to look a certain way and restricted her diet in the hope of looking thin and "toned." Before the COVID pandemic, she went to the gym once or twice a week, where she used leg, arm, and core machines, but didn't enjoy it.

"It was very passive, mostly just out of obligation. There was no passion involved," Finogina told Business Insider.

But when lockdown hit, she switched to doing home workouts, mainly 20-minute abs-focused videos. One day, she stumbled across a yoga channel, selected a video, and something clicked.

"It seemed challenging enough and also fun because it wasn't just a repetition, it was kind of a flow," she said. It featured elements like balance, coordination, and flexibility that she said her previous workouts were missing.

Finogina was having fun and wanted to get better at yoga, so, inspired by a YouTube video about building new habits, she committed to doing 50 consecutive days of at-home yoga workouts. She felt more coordinated and it boosted her mood. "I really got sort of addicted to the lifestyle of moving every day, where that wasn't the norm for me before," she said.

Five years later, it's a daily habit that she said has transformed her body and helped her change her relationship with body image, exercise, and diet, she said.

Her experience chimes with advice from personal trainers who recommend choosing a form of physical activity that you actually enjoy if you want to build a sustainable workout routine.

The personal trainer Sohee Lee previously told BI: "it's important that you're enjoying the exercise you do" as it's hard to do something consistently if it feels like a chore or punishment.

Finogina can now do advanced yoga poses like handstands as well as pull-ups.

Yoga for building muscle

Without intending to, yoga has helped Finogina build strength and muscle. "I definitely look more powerful. I have a lot more defined muscle," she said.

But she measures progress according to the poses she can do not what her body looks like.

Muscle mass is important for metabolic health and helps keep us strong and mobile. By the age of 30, we start to naturally lose muscle mass, but strength training can help us live healthier for longer. More intense forms of yoga, such as vinyasa or ashtanga, can count as strength training.

Over time, Finogina selected more advanced workouts that included inversions, poses where your heart is above your head, such as handstands, headstands, and arm balances like crow pose, which require good balance and coordination. "I wasn't yet capable, it was just a fun challenge," she said.

With lots of repetition, Finogina got strong enough to hold these poses and felt motivated to add calisthenics and bodyweight exercises like push-ups to her repertoire.

"I recently got my first pull-up," she said, "that was something I had never thought I could do."

Eating intuitively helped her choose more whole foods

Daily movement made Finogina feel more in touch with her body, including noticing if a meal left her feeling full, energetic, and light or heavy and sluggish.

She described her past relationship with food as unhealthy, and was filled with guilt if she ate "too much" or had foods she thought she "shouldn't."

Now she eats more intuitively and gravitates toward whole foods and larger portions. "When I work out a lot, I eat a lot, and I let myself do that," she said.

She's found that whole grains, beans, and nuts make her feel most energized. These foods are features of the Mediterranean diet, which has been voted the healthiest way to eat for eight years running.

Yoga changed Finogina's relationship with her body.

Exercising for fun not aesthetics

In the past, the only reason Finogina exercised was for aesthetics.

Now she loves exercising because it gives her an opportunity to connect with her body and let loose. "It's like having a dog in a way, just let it run, just let it have fun," she said.

This shift has helped her let go of the beauty ideal she used to strive for and appreciate her body as it is.

"With yoga, I kind of got familiar with my body, and my body had the opportunity to be itself and express itself," she said.

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