In recent years, some training trends have taken hold in Italy, bringing a breath of fresh air from abroad for those who want to embark on a training journey to keep fit far from classic fitness programs. Yoga, an ancient Indian discipline already practiced in the Bel Paese since the early 70s, has now entered the daily habits of thousands of Italian yogis. The success of this art of psychophysical well-being is partly due to its flexibility. Yoga can in fact be practiced anywhere and to put into practice the asanas, the positions of the discipline, all you need is a mat and possibly a meditation cushion and yoga blocks, which help you to best reach the positions to obtain optimal relaxation. After the yoga of laughter and power yoga, the latest trend of 2021 is urban yoga. In vogue in the United States for a few years now, this variant essentially transfers the practice of yoga from the classroom of the gyms and sports centres to the urban environment.
The city thus becomes the setting for training and it is not uncommon today to find groups of people practicing asanas on the roofs of buildings, in parks and in squares of the main Italian cities while in the summer yoga also moves to the seaside. An excellent way to fully benefit from this type of training considering that outdoors and especially in the spaces that nature manages to find between the streets and the concrete of the cities, you can breathe better and try to find contact with the greenery, enjoying the "company" of trees and various vegetation. Benches and any elements of street furniture become supports to facilitate stretching while the positive effects of the discipline, also in urban version, they always remain the same and the yoga variations to be practiced outdoors are always the classic ones from Ashtanga which focuses on the physique and is also more demanding on a muscular level (same goes for power yoga), at bikram yoga which instead uses high-temperature asanas to burn off fat (ideal outdoors in the scorching summer heat) through to Hatha yoga which instead prefers breathing or pranayama practices.
After all, yoga has now entered in the routine training of several famous athletes and also in disciplines that are not too physically demanding such as poker or chess, several practitioners integrate with targeted asanas and micro relaxing sessions their daily gaming sessions. Even several white collar workers have started practicing urban yoga to stay fit since this discipline can be practiced anywhere and avoids the disorder of taking out expensive gym memberships and possibly wasting time in traffic to get to your workout location.
Another trend of 2021 is cross training or cross training that suggests in its nomenclature the combination of different sports disciplines. The alternation of different stimuli It allows the body to burn more calories by not accustoming the muscular and nervous system to the same type of movements repeated and It also eliminates monotony since the training sessions are varied and range from running to strength training muscular both free body than with weights. So for example a cross training routine for beginners could include a muscle awakening in the morning (stretching or yoga for 20 minutes), followed by a session of running, cycling or I swim first lunch or before dinner. The next day, the classic morning muscle awakening could be followed by a kettlebell session, body building in the gym or gymnastics classic both free body or with the use of bars or parallel bars. The next day you could return to train at an aerobic level and so on. This practice promotes the improvement of the general state of fitness, bringing the athlete closer to reaching a correct percentage of body fat, increasing it at the same time strength, joint mobility and aerobic capacity while thanks to the mix of stimuli they are avoided the effects of the overtraining, it promotes muscle recovery and physical and mental overload is reduced.