This fashion workout can cause more harm than good: ‘extreme stress’

This hot training trend may not be a health hack that seems.

Experts are warning of fitness fanatics that hot yoga, popular by the influencers of Tiktok and celebrities of List A, can pose health risks.

As the name suggests, the exercise consists of making yoga at high temperatures about 105 degrees with 40% moisture – conditions that can set “extreme stress” in the cardiovascular system.

“I have seen how strong heat forces the heart to work overtime to cool the body,” Daily Mail told Dr. Veronika Matutyte, a lecturer at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences.

“This is not only a mild increase in heartbeat, but an important physiological requirement [and] accompanied by electrolyte inequalities caused by widespread sweating, [it] can create a perfect storm. “

Hot yoga temperatures, also known as bikram Yoga, carry a risk of “cardiac arrhythmias, strokes, or other serious and even fatal complications,” Matutyte explained.

“While deep extension and mental concentration may be useful for some, I find that the risks especially for the cardiovascular system are real, significant and should not be underestimated,” she said.

“Don’t assume that just because you are young or feel healthy, you are immune to these risks,” she continued. “Heat can affect all of us, and it is always better to go wrong on the side of care. I have seen the consequences of underestimating these risks and can prove that they can be devastating. “

Practice promises to improve flexibility and mobility, with the heat that allows deeper stretching, according to today. Moreover, hot yoga also aims to reduce stress and strengthen heart health.

In tiktok, the #hotyoga label is used in thousands of videos.

Content makers – who are often sweaty – record themselves in the classes of light training, with some calling the “most difficult exercise” they have done.

“Hot Yoga is not a joke,” said creator Katie Gallagher in an online video, comparing the temperature with “Hell Gates”.

But one influential said the fitness class “hit my butt”, while another admitted it would “faint” if he ever tried it.

Feeling light and sick head during hot yoga is usually a sign of dehydration due to the high heat and the amount of sweat you are excreting, according to experts.

That is why Alice Toyonaga, co -founder of Modo Yoga LA, advises hydration before and after the hot grade of Yoga. Fluid juices during the class “will not make many changes” if you already feel sick because you are probably already dehydrated, she explained today.

He also carries the risk of injury, according to sports doctor Dr. Jordan D. Metzl.

“The danger is that you can overload a hamstring or a quad or a hip, and sometimes put yourself in a position where you are getting a little more from that muscle than is used to being,” Metzl, who works in the hospital for Special surgery, said today.

“Sometimes you can do a slightly more pronounced injury than it would be normally because you get a little more exaggerated position than it would be normally because you don’t feel so much when you are in that really hot environment.”

His advice? “Just listen to your body.”

“You just have to be smart to not see the person near you and trying to imitate them,” he said.

For Newbies, Toyonaga recommended to start slowly.

“The first three to five classes, you are accustomed to heat. That’s what you are doing, ”she said.” You have to rest as much as you have to rest in that room in order to get used to the heat. So if you lie there for the whole clock, just pretend you are on the beach in Mexico. You are still doing it. ‘”