50 and Feeling Fabulous: Kim Ji-ho’s 8-Year Morning Secret to a Healthier You
[셀럽헬스] Actor Kim Ji-ho’s empty stomach yoga
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Kim Ji-ho said she has been doing yoga on an empty stomach in the morning for eight years. [사진=TV조선 ‘식객 허영만의 백반기행’ 방송화면 캡처]
Actor Kim Ji-ho (50) revealed his secret to maintaining good health.
On the recent broadcast of TV Chosun’s ‘Gourmet Heo Young-man’s Baekban Travels’, Kim Ji-ho appeared and went on a dining table tour to Goyang, Gyeonggi-do.
On this day, when asked how he usually takes care of his health, Ji-ho Kim said, “I do regular yoga on an empty stomach every morning.” In the photo that followed, Ji-ho Kim caught everyone’s attention by freely performing high-difficulty yoga movements.
When Heo Young-man told Kim Ji-ho, who said that she had been practicing yoga for eight years, that “I did it for the second longest after my marriage,” Kim Ji-ho laughed and said, “That’s right. My husband always teases me, saying, ‘Ji-ho will soon levitate. He’ll go to the mountains. ‘”
Yoga is good for mental health, and it also has the effect of aerobic exercise
Yoga, which Kim Ji-ho has been doing consistently, relieves stress, improves flexibility, and improves body balance. In particular, abdominal breathing, which is emphasized in yoga, provides nutrients to cells and tissues smoothly and promotes blood circulation. It is also good for improving muscle mass and basic physical strength.
Yoga is also good for brain health. According to a study by a research team at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), yoga helps improve brain neuroplasticity and reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change its own neural circuits, which plays an important role in adapting to new behaviors or experiences.
In addition, when doing static yoga movements, you can achieve psychological stability through meditation effects, and through active movements, you can see the effects of aerobic exercise. Aerobic exercise refers to exercise that increases heart rate and body oxygen consumption. Regular aerobic exercise reduces the risk of various chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
When we think of aerobic exercise, we usually think of running, cycling, or swimming, but according to a study published in the international academic journal ‘Complementary Therapies’, yoga movements can also have the same effect as aerobic exercise.
A representative yoga movement is the sun salutation pose. This pose is energy efficient and highly focused, helps build full-body strength, and improves flexibility. It consists of a total of 12 movements, and the faster you continue the movements, the greater the exercise effect and the more calories you burn.
Sun Salutation Pose, which helps increase overall muscle strength and reduce body fat. [사진= 게티이미지뱅크]
Exercise on an empty stomach to promote fat burning, ideally within 30 minutes
Kim Ji-ho said that he does yoga on an empty stomach in the morning. According to research, when the body is fasting, there are fewer carbohydrates to use as energy for exercise, so if you exercise at this time, you can burn about 20% more fat.
However, some people should be careful. If you have difficulty controlling your blood sugar, exercising on an empty stomach can be dangerous. In particular, if you are taking oral hypoglycemic agents or insulin, you may experience symptoms of hypoglycemia such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, or even collapse due to excessive exercise and fasting.
Also, if you exercise for a long time on an empty stomach, you can lose not only fat but also muscle, so the exercise time should be less than 30 minutes. Since fat burning is most active for 1 hour after an aerobic exercise on an empty stomach, if your goal is to reduce body fat, it is best to eat 1 hour after finishing exercise.
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