Tried Hindu Squats and Hindu Push Ups


Part of what I read about when I was reading about the PACE method of exercise, where you do shorter bursts of very intense physical activity to burn fat and help condition your heart and lungs, all in twenty minutes or under per day, I read about how exercises called Hindu Squats and Hindu Push Ups were supposed to be excellent for strength training and burning fat very quickly while conditioning the lungs and the heart.

So of course I went out and googled them, and came up with a great instructional video of a man doing both exercises for several in a row. The squats were fast squats that were just traditional squats where it looks like you are going to sit down in a chair, and the push ups were a bit more challenging, because they were a combination of the chataranga in yoga, which is one of my hardest yoga moves since you use a lot of upper body strength for them, but yet you should be trying to force it to happen, since yoga is about gentleness and just “letting things happen” instead of forcing them to happen within your body.

The Hindu push up goes like this, and I’ll try to explain it as best I can without showing a picture. But if you want to see a video of a guy doing these exercises, the best one I found was here on Youtube : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v65uF0J0jDs.

I guess you start off in sort of a downward dog position, if you are familiar with yoga, but you have your feet spread wide apart as a solid base. You then lower yourself down into a sort of upward facing dog position, where you are looking up toward the sky, arching your neck backwards (be careful not to over do it), and then you wave back up to the starting position, which is downward dog again, so you end up again in an inverted triangle position.

These are great upper body strength builders, and they are also great for exerting yourself quickly and building up your lung capacity. Of course, they also look slightly erotic, just to let you know, so they might be something you only want to do in the privacy of your own home, but that’s just modest ol’ me talking :)

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