Leg edema, poor blood circulation, an empty chair, carved beautiful legs

With beautiful legs in fashion, how can women who love beauty miss the opportunity to wear short skirts and boots and show off their leg lines? However, the winter that spans two years brings many opportunities for festivals and gatherings, plus the cold weather. Many women have an increased appetite but are too lazy to move, which leads to poor blood circulation in the legs, and accumulation of fat and water, resulting in leg edema or elephant legs. At this time, you might as well follow the yoga teacher to "move" gracefully. These three simple moves can easily slim your legs! (Video/Photographer Lai Yizhou)

Many women are afraid of the cold and too lazy to move in winter, and unknowingly accumulate fat and toxins, causing leg edema or elephant legs.

Tang Youxin, a well-known yoga instructor with a pair of well-proportioned legs, said that the legs are the second heart of the body. Many women have insufficient leg muscle endurance and strength due to the cold winter weather and lack of exercise. In addition, venous return is slow and peripheral blood circulation becomes poor, making them prone to cold hands and feet, edema or obesity in the lower limbs.

Is there any lazy exercise method that can promote blood circulation and metabolism in the legs to achieve the effects of burning fat, draining water and sculpting the legs? Teacher Tang Youxin suggested practicing the movements of lifting the chair off the ground and hooking and stretching the calves. It does not require intense dancing, but it can slowly warm up the body and sculpt the leg lines.

Yoga teacher Tang Youxin demonstrates chair-style yoga, which helps train the hip and leg muscles. (Photography by Lai Yizhou)

The first move: chair style

Chair yoga can train the strength of the buttocks and thighs and eliminate excess fat in the lower body. When standing, open your feet, raise your hands forward and stretch your spine, imitating the posture of sitting on a chair in the air. Your knees cannot go forward beyond your toes, do not shrug your shoulders, shrink your abdomen, and do not open your ribs outward. Slowly sit back on your hips and avoid lifting them. Raise your hands naturally to form an angle of about 135 degrees with the ground. Maintain the squatting position and take 4 deep breaths before slowly standing up, raising your hands to stretch your spine.

Teacher Tang Youxin said that if you want to increase the intensity and achieve the effect of sculpting long and beautiful legs, students can put their feet together when exercising, or clamp a small ball on the inner thighs to strengthen the inner thighs. Put your hands together. If the shoulder joints are too tight, keep them parallel and raise them up. Bend your knees but not past your toes, and don't let your ribs protrude forward. Extend your back and spine, and slowly sit back with your hips, transfer the body's center of gravity to your hips. After pausing and taking a deep breath, return to the preparatory movement with the last movement and exhale.

The second trick: wall chair

Compared with the chair pose, the "wall chair pose" has lower intensity, but it also helps to sculpt the leg lines. (Photography by Lai Yizhou)

When doing this exercise, your hips and back should be close to the wall, your arms should be straightened with your palms lightly touching the wall, then open your feet and slowly move forward until your thighs are parallel to the ground, maintain the posture and take deep breaths. Practicing this pose for 5 to 10 minutes every day can increase the strength of the leg muscles and prevent excess fat and water accumulation. If you can't achieve parallelism at the beginning, you can practice step by step.

Simple dancer yoga can strengthen leg muscles and beautify leg lines. (Photography by Lai Yizhou)

The third move: simple dancer

If you feel sore legs after exercise, it is suitable to do some exercises that both stretch the thighs and balance the limbs. The student stands, holds the wall with the left hand, holds the right foot with the right hand, and tries to bring the calf close to the thigh and buttocks, slightly stretching the thigh muscles. During the process, keep the thighs close together and avoid moving one leg and knee forward or outward.

To enhance the effect of limb balance, without holding the wall, pull the hooked leg back with both hands, straighten the back and spine, maintain the posture and take a few deep breaths before returning to the preparatory posture. Doing dancer yoga moves regularly can help strengthen your leg muscles and sculpt your legs.