Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Yoga Clothes: A Style You Can Live With

By Elizabeth Bailey

There are truly no hard and fast rules as to what types of clothes you can wear when performing yoga exercises. Since yoga is a non competitive activity and you can do it at home if you want to, the guidelines are extraordinarily relaxed when it comes to yoga clothes.

However, performing yoga exercises means you have got to bend, stretch and twist your body a lot. To attain maximum pliability of movement, you need to wear cozy yoga clothes. Good yoga clothes will give you liberty of movement.

Note that tight garments will pitch your skin and impede your movements. Moreover, tight clothes are extraordinarily uncomfortable when you do stretching exercises. To help you choose the right sort of clothes, here are some tips...

The Right Fit

Any kinds of clothes won't really look or feel good on you unless they fit right. If your yoga clothes are one size too tiny or too large for you, you will not actually feel snug in them. To find the right yoga clothes, you need to take some time to try these clothes on before you buy them. When trying on yoga clothes, try to perform some yoga positions and see if you can move openly.

However, if you happen to live in a remote area and you don't have any choice except to shop online, ensure that you get the proper size of yoga clothes. You don't really want to end up returning the garments after you receive them. Note that most online stores charge the shipping and handling cost to their customers when they return or exchange merchandise.

Materials

When buying yoga clothes, pay very close attention to the materials used. Yoga clothes that are made of spandex, elastic and light materials are perfect for maximum suppleness. Forget about those yoga clothes that are made from cotton. Cotton may feel cool on the skin but after you start sweating, the cotton materials of your clothes will become heavy, sticky and uncomfortable.

Moreover, the texture of cotton materials will become coarse and heavy when wet so you can try and imagine the pain that cotton will cause you. Note that cotton materials can also chaff your skin.

To achieve maximum comfort, buy clothes that are made of sweat absorbent materials. Light and sweat absorbent yoga clothes are perfect for your routine.

Ask friends or your yoga instructor for recommendations as to which brands last the best and are the most comfy and suitable for yoga before you spend too much money on ill-fitting, incongruous yoga gear.

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