Doing Yoga On Carpet

Our yoga room is carpeted so i made this board platform to act as a substitute floor.

Doing yoga on carpet.

Multiply this over multiple days a week and your carpet will quickly start to deteriorate in quality. Until now she had been doing it in our kitchen but it s not a great environment. There are a variety of safe and effective tips for working out on carpet. I ve been doing yoga at home on carpet for almost 6 months now and actually find that when i move to hardwood floors my balance is more stable.

Sometimes the best floor surface is not an option for home exercise. A few weeks ago jake had posted on the ybc yoga forum that he had found a solution to doing yoga on carpeted floors his hard surface yoga platform has served him so well and was generating quite a little buzz on the forum that i thought i should ask if he d be willing to share his step by step process with. To some doing yoga on the carpet only takes a few weeks of getting used to and then becomes a non issue. Today s guest post is from jake a 27 year old ybc reader from salt lake city utah.

Carpet can make it a lot harder to do stepping exercises but that doesn t mean you have to give up on sticking with your routine outside of class hours. Balance issues hard floors ensure that you ll be able to maintain your balance because the surface is even and steady and won t give more in some areas than others. It s made of 5 8 thick bamboo flooring planks glued to a 1 4 sheet of birch plywood with 1 8 bamboo trim around the perimeter. For those looking to practice yoga on a mat on a carpet we reviewed top choices in the market.

For one doing yoga poses against a carpeted floor might give your body friction burns or scratches caused by sliding your body against the carpet. So while the carpet may be more difficult once you find our balance there you will definitely have it on the hardwood floors. Lifeboard hemingweigh gymenist and a couple others based on thickness non slip or not material weight price. If you workout on your carpet in shoes every time you exercise you are gradually wearing out your carpet by doing repetitive actions that dull the quality of your carpet in the same spot.

It s difficult to do yoga on carpet.