Sweating

The high temperatures of summer may seem a distant hope, but each week the students like Yue contact Lena temperatures above 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

Yue is one of many students participate in a new trend in the year: hot yoga. While traditional yoga is known for its slow and conscious relaxation, hot yoga is an increase in popularity with the added benefits of working in the heat: burn fat more efficiently, sweat toxins and improve flexibility.

"Yoga has [be] a popular way back in the course of the past two years," said Yue. "I work out not too slow, hot yoga replacement if the power was very good for fitness training.

Set a 80 degree Fahrenheit temperatures of 105 rooms, hot yoga allows people to participate in the mind, body and sweat glands heated for an hour or more.

Tory Jenis, owner of Blackbird Studio in Ithaca, said the reason he uses in his heat during power yoga because it gives participants an intense stretch.

"The heat gives you a deeper stretch in the muscles and the muscles relax much faster than if not in the heat," he said. "It is also a more demanding workout sweat better. You get your heart rate is faster than in yoga without heat."

Hot Yoga is different from its counterpart Bikram Yoga style. Bikram Yoga is a series of 26 specific sequences of postures in a heated room, while hot yoga is a form of hatha yoga has done in the heat.

Jenis advice for those starting out with hot yoga is to come to class hungry and bring enough water to drink in class.

"Some people are a little dizzy when you can start doing hot yoga," he said. "But the key is to use changes or take a break and leave to cool."

With the increased sweating is the potential for dehydration, and with flexibility comes the ability to overload, causing pulled muscles or sprains. When stretching, ligaments can be difficult to return to its original shape and size, resulting in loose joints. Some common side effects short-term dizziness, nausea, muscle weakness and cramps, Jenis said.

Jenis also said that yoga is a very dynamic and challenging exercise, but it is accessible to any professional level.

"We talk all the time to honor your body," said Jenis. "You must pay attention to the difficult balance between yourself, but be careful, especially if you've never done before."

Mighty Yoga is another study in Ithaca, including heat in their classrooms. Yue said he has been attending classes there is a maximum of four times a week. Owner and trainer Heather Healey, who has done yoga for five years, said the heat allows the muscles to stretch more.

"By doing yoga in a room nonheated, I felt that not much of it," Healey said. "The heat makes it much safer for the practice of yoga."

Mighty Yoga offers classes for all levels. Healey said his philosophy is to have an open door policy to try yoga.

"Many people who dare to try yoga because they believe it should be super flexible or super thin or really athletic," he said. "Our classes are difficult, but you do not have to bend yourself into a pretzel to come and get a good workout."

On campus, the university currently offers two classes for beginners and power of yoga to students. Kathy Farley, Fitness Center administrative assistant, said it would be difficult to have a hot yoga class in the fitness center, due to temperature requirements.

"We have no control over the heat here," he said. "If we are warmer than we have put in an application. Under the university's energy policy of conservation, the set point temperature should be between 69 and 71 degrees Fahrenheit anyway. We had to beg and plead to get you just elevate to 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

A class on campus would be less costly and more accessible for many students, taking account of spending a semester in college costs $ 45 and one month Unlimited Yoga Mighty pass costs $ 105. But Sarah Hawkins, Fitness Center program coordinator, said it would be difficult for the Fitness Center to offer hot yoga classes.

"During the day, it would be difficult to be warm enough in [the aerobics room] in the short period of time, and then cool for other classes to take place," she said.

There are over 10 yoga studios in Ithaca, but only a number of offers to choose the classes that include hot yoga.

For Sophomore Julia Catalano, heat is one reason why he chose to follow a course off campus instead of just the normal power yoga.

"I always feel so clean and relaxed after sweating so much class," he said. "I certainly have never sweat more in my life. At first I found it disgusting, but now I think he feels good and detoxification.

Senior Katie Venetsky, which is the power of yoga university, said he believes the popularity of hot yoga will last.

Hot yoga is a fad, "he said." Yoga has always existed, and it is right that some types of yoga are more popular at different times now as hot yoga. "

But Healey said that the popularity of hot yoga will continue to grow, especially if students are constantly seeking new challenges to add to their training programs.

"Yoga in general has skyrocketed in the last 10 years," he said. "There are many more people willing to try."