Why do I wear leggings for yoga?

Yoga is a trendy way of fitness, which can not only have the effect of fitness and shaping, but also cultivate one's physical and mental health, and has a good stress relieving effect. In the process of yoga practice, a professional yoga instructor will recommend that everyone wear professional yoga clothes, which are generally a combination of tight sleeveless crop tops and leggings. So why do you need to wear leggings when practicing yoga? After chatting with a professional yoga teacher, we learned that tight yoga pants:

• Enable students to see the teacher's movements clearly
• Makes people appear more upright and able to showcase their physical relaxation
• Comfortable and close fitting, completely without affecting the process of yoga movements
• make you look slimmer

For students, in addition to the above characteristics, wearing yoga pants is more likely for teachers to detect leg problems and facilitate correction.

The Role of yoga pants

• Provides support and protection for leg muscles. Yoga pants reduce muscle tremors by providing the right amount of pressure to wrap and support key moving muscles.

• Convenient to observe the force position is correct. If you are a regular gym-goer, you will know that finding the right position is something that the fitness instructor will emphasize over and over again. Especially in yoga, there are various poses, and finding the right position will make the exercise more effective.

• Dry quickly and sweat out. When exercising, sweating profusely can cause pants to stick to the body if they have poor sweating ability. Loose pants can also come into contact with the skin, making it uncomfortable. Yoga pants usually have a high proportion of nylon added to the fabric, making them more comfortable and refreshing during exercise.

Key points for purchasing yoga pants

1. Fabric composition and composition ratio

• Fabric composition: The comfort of yoga pants mainly depends on the properties of the fabric composition used, especially the perspiration and elasticity. With current technology, the most common combination is nylon + spandex. Nylon is light in texture, high in elasticity, strength, and wear resistance. Spandex, also known as elastic fiber, feels smooth, has small moisture absorption, not easy to deform. Generally speaking, the higher the content of spandex, the less efficiently the fabric deforms, and more wrapped.

• Composition ratio: The ratio of spandex and nylon is usually 80%+20%, 75%+25%, or 70%+30%, all of which can ensure the comfort and elasticity of yoga pants. If the spandex content is too low, there will be a sense of tightness when stretching during exercise; It's not necessary to have too much spandex content, after all, its price is too high. So considering both performance and price, the best yoga pants on the market have a spandex content of around 20% -30%.

Regarding current products on the market, specialized seamless clothing manufacturers suggest the 80%+20% ratio is more common in low-intensity sports products, such as daily leisure sports scenes such as yoga, walking, dancing, etc. The ratio of 75%+25% is more suitable for medium to high-intensity sports, with a better rebound effect and wrapping feeling, which can help shape more effectively during the exercise process.

2. Cutting techniques

Good looking is a demand that everyone cannot get around when buying yoga pants. Has there been any effect on optimizing hip and leg shape? Will it reveal the awkward triangle line? It mainly depends on the cutting. Cutting can be understood as the structure of pants.

• Structural design: a. Complex structure: the more complex the pants are, the more stitches they have, and the more they can modify the leg lines. For example, the side seam can modify the leg lines, and the arc design can build up the hip space, making the hips more upright

• Simple structure: Without the friction of side stitching, pants will be more comfortable and soft.

• For structural design, everyone can choose based on the sports scene and personal preferences.
• Embarrassment Line: Whether the awkward line in the triangle area will be exposed is the most concerning issue for everyone. Therefore, we should try to choose fabrics with a thickness of over 220g, and we can choose high-waisted yoga pants to avoid awkward lines when we lift our waists up.
• Waist curling: Girls with excess belly fat are prone to problems with waist curling after performing major movements such as bending. For those who are troubled by curling, they can choose yoga pants with elastic bands at the waist.