Dear Friend,
The hidden trigger that’s making you fat…
If you’ve been looking for a way to lose stubborn pounds and inches…
If you think you’ve tried everything to flatten your tummy, slim your thighs, firm your butt, and tone those jiggly arms…
And if you’ve had it up to here with exhausting, boring exercise that eats up time you don’t have and leaves you sore and achy…
Then I’ve got great news for you.
I’m going to tell you about an easy, relaxing, and FUN way to lose the flab, lose the inches, and lose the stress. It can help you finally fit into your “skinny jeans” and get your sexiest body ever!
Not only that, it can help you enjoy non-stop energy, banish tension and anxiety, sleep better than you have in years, soothe everyday aches and pains, and much more.
You don’t have to join a gym or exercise class—in fact, you don’t even have to leave home. You can do it no matter how inflexible or out of shape you are now, and you won’t hurt or strain a single muscle. And you can see a significant difference in as little as 20 minutes a day, three days a week. That’s just one hour a week!
What am I talking about? A breakthrough approach to yoga—yes, yoga—that reshapes your body…while transforming your health and your life!
Slow down, relax…and get into your “skinny jeans” again
Now, chances are you may not think of yoga as “real” exercise. Maybe you think it’s simply stretching…holding what may seem like awkward poses…or humming “om”.
But there’s so much more to yoga. That’s why I want to get the word out to as many people as possible about the amazing body-shaping and life-transforming benefits it can offer you.
Kris Fondran, founder of Shapeshifter Yoga, 6 days before her 45th birthday.
My name is Kris Fondran. Years ago, I was the last person you’d think of as doing yoga. I was a long-distance marathon runner—and a classic, hard-charging “type A” personality. I always felt I had to run harder and faster in every area of my life: wife, mother, graduate student, and teacher.
Then I discovered yoga. Fortunately, I discovered it at a studio that taught yoga in its truest sense: slow-moving, focused, relaxing, and connected to the body. Doing yoga this way transformed my life by helping me finally slow down, instead of always going too fast.
Yoga also transformed my body. It’s like the ultimate anti-aging medicine! I’ve had three kids and am hitting my late forties. Yet I canstill put on a bikini and feel great about how I look.
I also sleep like a baby at night and feel healthier than ever. I don’t have the usual aches and pains that crop up at middle age, even as a former marathon runner. Plus I enjoy more energy than people I know who are 10 or 20 years younger than me!
Why yoga is better than jogging for burning off calories
So how can something as “easy” and relaxing as yoga do such amazing things for your body? It’s because while you can do yoga and not work up much of a sweat, it doesn’t mean you’re not working your body hard. Let me explain…
Are these yoga myths keeping you from getting into your best shape ever?
Myth #1: You have to do vigorous, grueling exercise to burn calories.
TRUTH: You can burn just as many calories (and even more fat) by doing yoga alone. When you do a series of yoga moves together, your body gets a great workout without wreaking havoc with your joints or leaving you out of breath. And you can burn just as many calories as jogging!
Myth #2: Yoga can’t help you lose weight.
TRUTH: Yoga can help you lose weight. Research proves people who do yoga weigh 19 pounds less on average. This could be because yoga lowers cortisol levels so you’re less likely to overeat or snack. Plus yoga is a great way to burn fat and calories (see myth #1)!
Myth #3: “No pain, no gain” is the rule when it comes to building muscle.
TRUTH: With yoga, you don’t have to lift weights because you lift your own body weight in many poses. This helps sculpt and tone your muscles while being gentle on your body. Plus the more muscle you build, the more you boost your metabolism…so you burn even more fat and calories!
I have a Master’s degree in Exercise Science, so I have a good knowledge of human anatomy and performance. I’ve even conducted my own research on yoga in a lab and compared it to cardio exercise. And you may be shocked to hear what I learned from a recent experiment.
Kris is burning as many calories as she would if she was jogging!
I had a colleague hook me up to a special device that measures caloric expenditure. Then I did a series of simple yoga postures strung together in something I call a “flow”, which put my body into a perfect fat-burning zone. During one 10-minute flow, the device showed I burned 7 calories per minute. That adds up to 420 calories in an hour—about what I’d burn by jogging!
Plus yoga is much better for your joints than jogging. With jogging, I’d have to worry about putting all that stress on my knees and hips. In fact, I had developed bursitis in my hip from all those years of jogging. But with yoga, my joints became stronger and more flexible, instead of stiff and achy.
That’s because yoga's fluid movements allow your joints—even if they’re swollen or painful—to glide smoothly over one another, improving strength and mobility… with NO wear and tear. And you’re able to burn off just as many calories—and even more fat!
The hidden trigger that’s making you fat…
and how to reverse it
You heard me right…yoga helps you burn off more fat—another huge advantage over cardio exercise. In the calorie study I just told you about, 6.3 of those 7 calories I burned per minute doing yoga were from FAT. That comes out to a whopping 90%—the same as with jogging! But yoga does something else to help you burn off more fat: it lowers cortisol.
Cortisol is a hormone your body releases when it’s under stress, which is why cortisol is often called the “stress hormone”. It’s part of your body’s “fight or flight” response, designed to help you flee from danger or protect yourself from predators. When your body releases cortisol, it floods your body with energy and gives you a higher pain threshold.
The problem is, many of us are walking around with high cortisol levels all the time—and it’s not due to the life-threatening situations this stress response was designed for. Instead, it’s due to everyday stressors, like an argument with your spouse or a rough day at work or at home with the kids.
Anything that puts emotional or physical stress on your body can increase cortisol. Even strenuous exercise like jogging can raise your cortisol to sky-high levels. And these increased cortisol levels could be making you fat!
That’s because when your cortisol levels go up, it signals your body to eat more—so you feel hungry all the time. This causes you to eat bigger portions and snack more often, leading to weight gain.
Cortisol also raises blood sugar when you’re feeling stressed. This spike in blood sugar makes your body store more fat. And the kind of fat you’re most likely to store is visceral fat—the dangerous belly fat that’s linked to diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol levels.
Helps you lose stubborn flab and belly fat—and keep it off!
You can see why you want to avoid stressing out your body and raising cortisol levels. Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to erase stress from our lives. But research shows you can lower your body’s cortisol levels by doing yoga.
In 2009, Indian researchers proved that cancer patients who followed a yoga program had lower levels of cortisol than those who did not. And another study published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine showed that healthy college students who practiced yoga had lower cortisol levels.
This means you can do yoga and get the powerful fat-blasting effects of vigorous cardio exercise, and reduce your cortisol levels at the same time. This can help you lose stubborn flab and belly fat…and keep it off! Plus you can forget about the boring monotony of jogging, running on a treadmill, or riding a stationary bike.
When you do one of the easy yoga flows like I did in my calorie study, it almost feels like dancing. So you can have FUN while you’re getting fit and toned! Plus you’ll be amazed how yoga really does help you drop those extra pounds…
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