If you want a sexy, firm and strong booty yoga can help you to achieve that. Besides offering you with many health benefits, yoga can help you to target specific areas of your body. A great looking butt will always make you look sexier. Let’s find out how yoga can help you to create such a booty.

A stronger butt

Yoga moves will help you to build a stronger butt. Yoga will allow you to sculpt, mould and tone your lower body using your own bodyweight. The strengthening moves also stretch your muscles and it means you are elongating your muscles and at the same time working them harder. It means you are getting double benefit with a single exercise.

Specific poses

If you think that yoga is only a great way to stretch, reduce pains and simply relax, you are wrong. Yoga can do much more than the. Yoga cannot only help you to challenge your body, it can also help you to tone and define all your muscles. If you’re targeting specific areas, then you will need to focus on certain poses. These specific poses will put tension on the glute and leg muscles and will thereby make them stronger and more defined.

Such specific poses that you need to practice for a better looking butt include poses like Chair Pose (Utkatasana), High Lunge (Alanasana), Warrior III (Virabhadrasana III), Warrior II, Goddess Pose (Utkata Konasana), Bridge Pose (Setu Bandha Sarvangasana). You will find detailed instructions for performing it shove these asanas. You can also learn from different apps, websites and locally from a guru or yoga teacher. You will also find different yoga workouts which specifically focus on creating a yoga butt. You can follow one of them or you can create your own workout as per instruction of your teacher.

In most of these asanas, you will need to hold the position or asana for 5 to 10 deep breaths. You’ll also need to switch sides while performing these exercises so that both sides of your body can get benefited equally.

Yoga is powerful

Yoga may not be the first thing that you consider when you’re trying to build a better butt, but it is probably the best way to sculpt and define your booty. Yoga uses isometric holds and thereby helps you in building muscle strength and endurance.

Isometric training has been used by expert because they know its benefits. When you hold poses challenging positions, it puts the muscles under tension and resistance. In this process, your muscles become stronger. This has been a part of yoga for a long time. Many yoga practitioners have stopped using other forms of weight training and they completely rely on the strengthening benefits that you can achieve in yoga. In yoga, you use your own bodyweight and so the possibility and risk of injury is less but at the same time you are gaining the same benefits like other happy weight exercises.

Yoga can be done anywhere you like when you don’t have time and don’t have enough space to move around. It is a zero equipment training if you want it to be. You just need a yoga mat or a soft surface.

References 1. Yoga Booty Challenge
2. 10-minute firm butt workout
3. Anatomy, Bony Pelvis and Lower Limb, Gluteus Maximus Muscle