Mindful Running, HIIT Yoga, Ditching Fitness Trackers: This Fall's Sports Trends

In the new season, we continue to pursue a course towards awareness, including in sports. No extreme training, just acceptance and love for what you are doing. Even if you need to lose extra pounds, choose a gentle, but no less effective for the body direction of fitness.

The BeautyHack editors tell you what workouts will be in trend this fall. Hurry up to choose and sign up!

Yoga HIIT

This direction of yoga is suitable for those who want to tone the body as soon as possible. HIIT (from English High-Intensity Interval Training) is a high-intensity interval training, which is a load with alternating levels of intensity. Usually, a lesson takes no more than 20-25 minutes with breaks for rest of 1-2 minutes.

We can say that HIIT yoga is an exercise for losing weight, but with an emphasis on asanas, proper breathing and, of course, awareness during each exercise.

8 steps of yoga

Another area of ​​yoga that is gaining popularity in almost all countries of the world. With him you do not have to choose a goal for attending yoga classes, it includes everything at once - from exercises for all muscle groups to philosophical teachings and enlightenment.

So, 8 feet of yoga combines the following practices:

Yama is the observance of moral values ​​and restraint in all spheres of life, including sexual.

Niya - self-discipline, spiritual development.

Asana - steady body position, correct posture.

Pranayama is breathing in which energy is properly distributed in our body.

Pratyahara - detachment from external stimuli, the ability not to succumb to negative energy.

Dharana - maintaining concentration.

Dhyana is meditation.

Samadhi is the highest level of spiritual attainment, enlightenment.

During the lesson, attention is paid to the correct performance of asanas, even breathing, concentration and then meditation. The main goal of the 8 steps of yoga is work on the body and mind.

Functional training

In fitness, functional training is again in vogue, which is more focused not on losing weight, but on making us stronger. During the lesson, familiar exercises are used, which Cindy Crawford and Jane Fonda advised in the 90s: jumps, lunges, squats, push-ups, etc. As a result, all major muscle groups are being worked out, but at the same time, the risk of injury is practically reduced to zero.

Refusal from fitness gadgets

In recent years, we and almost everyone around us, from nephews to grandmothers, have used fitness trackers to count steps or apps that show the level of heart rate, daily activity, or even offer personal training. By this fall, and certainly by next year, all sports gadgets will fizzle out. Now it is fashionable to focus only on your own feelings and trust your body. Sometimes it's really more beneficial to skip fitness than to force your body to do what it doesn't want to do right now.

Running in the stream

Marathons for medals and photos on Instagram will also lose their relevance. If you run, then not for the sake of the result, but as a meditation. That is, jogging should be enjoyable: it is better to pay attention to technique than set a goal to lose extra pounds or get hung up on a distance. You can read about this in the books that have become bestsellers in our country: "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" by Haruki Murakami and "Runner in the Stream" by Philip Lutter and Christine Weinkauff Duranso. The main message of the authors is to listen to yourself and seek balance even in a healthy lifestyle!