Does practicing hatha yoga satisfy recommendations for intensity of physical activity which improves and maintains health and cardiovascular fitness?

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hagins, Marshall ^a   Moore, Wendy ^b   Rundle, Andrew ^b  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALORIMETRY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; ENERGY COST; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; SITTING; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VIDEORECORDING; YOGA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENERGY METABOLISM; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; WALKING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CORONARY DISEASE; ENERGY METABOLISM; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PULMONARY GAS EXCHANGE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WALKING; YOGA;

EID: 38949135517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-7-40     Document Type: Article

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