About the Yoga Center of Coral Springs

Here at YOGA 4 LIFE, we offer a variety of Yoga Styles including Hot Yoga, Kripalu Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Flow, Yin Yoga and Kids Yoga. In each class we practice a sequence of postures (asanas) to stretch and strengthen every area of the body necessary to create balance and restore all systems to optimal health.

7 REASONS FOR THE HEAT

1. Enhances vasodilatation so that more blood is delivered to the muscles.  This means that the capillaries that weave around the muscles respond to the heat by dilation.  This brings more oxygen to the muscles and helps in the removal of waste products such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid.

2. Allows oxygen in the blood to detach from the hemoglobin more easily.  When blood passes through warm muscles, oxygen releases more easily from the hemoglobin.  Blood passing through cold muscles releases less oxygen. 

3. Speeds up the breakdown of glucose and fatty acids.

4. Makes muscles more elastic, less susceptible to injury.

5. Improves coordination.

6. Reduces heart irregularities associated with sudden exercise.

7. Burns fat more easily.  Warmed muscles burn fat more easily than cold ones.  Fat is released during stress.  The stress of intense exercise causes a deluge of fatty acids into the blood stream.  If you exercise with cold muscles, they can't use the fatty acids, and they end up in places they are not wanted such as in the lining of your arteries.