Yeah, these are the facts that people already know, but they just don’t apply it in their everyday lives.

I’m not your medical doctor, personal trainer or nutritionist and I’ve not met you in person, but from your comment I’d say that you’ll need to get the green light from your doctor for your elbow condition.

I’m a strong believer in weight training for women. I’ve been a hardcore weight trainer for over a decade now and have always been quite careful to avoid injury.

Yoga is fantastic for flexibility and you do work you core and building strenght. I’m sure that you’ve lost some weight by going yoga because once you start taking care of yourself it shows in so many different areas of your life.

That said, in my opinion, if you want to take you weight loss to the next level you’ll need to find a cardio excercise you like because you need that intensity + you NEED weight training.

The best thing I can suggest is for you to work with a personal trainer for a few sessions to learn the basics and get better results!

Once you have the basics, you can get some fitness and exercise DVDs for your home if you don’t want to workout at a gym.

I hope that helps and thanks for dropping by!

I started yoga, really enjoyed it (5 to 6 days a week), lost some weight. Felt so good added some scuplt classes to lift some weights and floor exercise. The elbow had problems, cut back on amount of weight, then stopped scuplt classes. Attempted to continue yoga but finally had to quit. Its been 3 months the only thing that has helped is acupunture. I think the elbow is about 90% back to normal. I think I’m ready to go back to yoga.

I was able to do cardio while the elbow healed but I get bored.

I need to lose weight, should I be doing or find some type of weight training even if I’m doing yoga?