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Yoga for Women: How to Gain a Shapely Waist Through Yoga

Waist size is an indicator of overall fitness for many people. Most health experts agree that a smaller waist is healthier than a large one. The reason is that extra fat around the waist is linked to higher health risks such as type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

In evolutionary and biological terms, a small waist signifies youth and vitality. But endless sets of crunches alone will not give you the waist of your dreams, because you cannot burn fat from just one spot of the body. You will need to combine specific waist-oriented exercises with ones from other disciplines, together with a healthy diet.

Specifically, you will need to work the inner girdle of muscles, commonly known as the core muscles, with slow, controlled abdominal exercises that reach deep into these muscle groups.

While yoga is usually associated with flexibility, some exercises from yoga-based workouts, like those in our Yoga for Women series, also work the deep core muscles around the waist.