Too much traditional yoga practice and yearning for more breakthroughs? Have you heard of the "Rocket Vinyasa Yoga" that recently is super tranding? More energetic, more interesting, this kind of advanced yoga, you should try it!
What is Rocket Vinyasa?
If you are a "yoga enthusiast", you must have heard of yoga master Larry Schultz. Based on the traditional Ashtanga primary and intermediate sequences, the post-modern yoga training system created through a series of asana changes is the so-called "Rocket". Yoga". The rich and diverse variants in the sequence can not only take advantage of the original traditional asanas, but also flexibly adapt to students of different levels. It can also help awaken the nervous system, supplement and quickly return to a good state.
The reason why it is called "RocketVinyasa" refers to the speed like a rocket, "it can help you reach your goals faster", and this genre strongly encourages the spirit of reform, freedom and innovation in practice, which makes this training process is full of challenges and fun.
Rocket Vinyasa vs Traditional Yoga
Can Rocket Vinyasa be practiced by all yoga lovers? The answer is negative. The technical difficulty of Rocket Vinyasa Yoga determines that it has high requirements for the practitioner's own conditions and technical mastery.
If your muscle strength, core strength, balance, flexibility, comprehension... any one condition above does not reach the standard, you cannot practice rocket yoga at will.
As we all know, a good yoga teacher can quickly improve your understanding of Rocket Yoga. If you have a certain base in yoga, you can safely give it a try. There may be unexpected surprises.
Action difficulty upgrade -- handstand
Rocket Yoga's movement difficulty is indeed a much higher level than ordinary yoga. Compared with basic training, it will add hand balance, handstand, back bending, twisting, and abdominal core strengthening exercises, so that you can build up your energy throughout the process.
Speed up -- One-legged Crane Zen
In your eyes, are yoga movements very slow? In fact, another feature of Rocket Yoga is that the connection between the movements is very fast. In the process of quickly changing the movements, the difficulty naturally gradually increases. However, the training of Rocket Yoga is not accomplished overnight. For enthusiast who have just upgraded from ordinary yoga, the exercise time is less than one hour, based on a three-month practice cycle, gradually extending the exercise time, and completing the upgrade of the difficulty of the full sequence of movements.
Powerful strength exercises -- Lotus handstand
Rocket Yoga has higher requirements for the strength of various parts of the body. Like this movement, it consists of a modified traditional Ashtanga Yoga standing posture. This sequence instructs students to strengthen their legs and open their hips to enhance their balance ability. All standing poses start from the right side, and continuous practice will make the body continuously generate heat, which is really full of energy like a rocket ready to go.
Significant increase in exercise -- Handstand straight leg back bend
If you experience Rocket Yoga for the first time, you will definitely feel sweaty. Under the extremely difficult movements, it is a huge amount of exercise. On average, every 30 minutes of Rocket Yoga practice can consume 200 to 300 calories. Intensive cardiopulmonary function enhancement state, under the state of uniform contraction of the whole body, the total amount of exercise is about the same as running for 10 minutes.
Difficult action -- Avoid guide
Those who have practiced traditional yoga for more than half a year, meantime no major diseases and are not pregnant can try Rocket Yoga.
When faced with any of these two situations, you should stop the exercise in time: when there is acupuncture pain at the muscle level, you need to stop in time; when you have obvious breath holding and dizziness at the breathing level, you need to stop the exercise.
In addition to the benefits of traditional yoga for improving physical fitness and enhancing flexibility, Rocket Yoga can balance the digestive system, nervous system, and cardiopulmonary functions through a combination of constriction and asana training methods.
People with heart disease, high blood pressure, and pregnancy are not suitable for practicing Rocket Yoga.
Post time: 03-08-2021