To You Who Are Still at Home

Exercise is essential in our lives. Exercises such as walking, running, and mountain climbing are helpful enough, but they can also be felt to be easy to do. Also, exercises can be hard to continue doing because they are only some of the activities you must do in your life. Do you feel bored by exercise? Then you need to read this article carefully. Recently, many people have been exercising in various new ways. Examples of these new activities include Zumba dance, a mix of various dances, Flying Yoga, a deviation from traditional yoga, and so on. Next, the Pharos will introduce one of the new activities that are rising in popularity these days: Zumba dance.

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Zumba is a fitness dance that mixes dance moves from various countries around the world and is based on stretching and Latin dance. Zumba dance has lively dance moves and exciting music to boost your mood. If you hesitate to do a dance exercise because you can’t dance well, don’t worry. Zumba is easy to copy because it repeats simple actions. Also, because you move your body a lot, as it is famous as a diet exercise that helps you burn calories, and it corrects your posture. Zumba dancers often perform waist-spinning and lunge movements that move the entire body quickly, and which increase physical strength and general body health. Zumba can help you consume up to 1,000 kcal per hour because it requires lots of energy. In addition, the body’s stretching can correct posture and increase flexibility. At first, the music can be unfamiliar, but at the same time, you will develop confidence and feel fulfillment, which can energize your body movements. Later, you may become addicted to the fast-tempo music and unknowingly hum, “Zum, zum, zumba!”

Second exercises are yoga and flying yoga. Yoga is in high demanded exercise very long time. Numerous yoga poses require long-time training, so there are many people doing yoga steadily. Yoga was began from India, and yoga is complex mental and physical training mixed with meditation, breathing and stretching. There are few kinds of yoga, and traditional yoga is Ashtanga. Ashtanga yoga is composed with eight levels. It is important to connect breath and pose when you doing each level. Also, keeping sequence is very important too. If you doing Ashtanga, you will feel your body’s balance in each pose’s order and your muscles’ relax. One of the biggest strength of Yoga, improved flexibility and increased lung capacity can also be greatly improved through Ashtanga. The Pharos recommends Yoga to students who have low flexibility and ill balance, especially have turtle neck syndrome students. You could realize your body changing through doing yoga steadily. Also, today’s rising exercise Flying Yoga is began by reversing basic yoga positions using hammock. With the help of a hammock, regular yoga poses can be carried out a little more than your limit. These days, flying yoga has become more advanced, making it possible to combine full-body exercise and massage, such as lymph node massage and circus movement. Flying Yoga also helps you to perform not only yoga but also Pilates’ (explain later) movements in the air. When you will first day of Flying Yoga, you maybe feel too painful and tired, so you can’t do many poses. However, if you don’t give up on this, you will experience less pain and less fatigue from your body.

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The last exercise is Pilates. There are few kinds of Pilates, instrument Pilates, mat Pilates, and small tool Pilates, etc. Pilates’ small tool include foam rollers, mini balls, jimball, Pilates circles and bands, which are used because they allow for greater exercise effects. When you doing Pilates, you use inner muscles that you didn’t used, so you could experience big pain at first. However, if you gradually increase the duration of motion and move one step further than the limit, it can have a great effect. Thinking of Pilates, many people think that it is a diet-oriented exercise. Pilates, of course, is effective for lose weight, but what can grow the most through Pilates is core strength and body balance. Depending on what theme the Pilates sequence is planned for, aerobic and muscular exertion can be done, and any motion of the Pilates can have great effect on the balance of the body. Also, Pilates breathing is as important as motion. Pilates’ breathing should be as strong as possible to keep the abdomen in place and not move, as if the ribs were being extended to the side If you breathe Pilates properly, you can experience sweating just by breathing for 30 minutes.

There may be many students who can’t exercise because they don’t have enough time or because they find it hard to do. However, exercise is not an option, but a necessity in our lives. Why don’t you try exercising no matter how busy you are or how hard it is? The Pharos is not asking you to keep exercising no matter what. First of all, you can keep trying for a month or three and then quit if you feel that it is not right for your tendency. Resultingly, doing exercises that suit you regularly will increase achievement and passion in your daily life as well as health.

Planning Editor•LEE GAEUN•antonia0504@naver.com

71st Reporter•KIM JIN•coo0714@naver.com