General FAQ

What is Kukikan?

This is explained in detail in Essential Readings.

What is “The Search Within”?

This is explained in detail in Essential Readings.

I want to start exercising daily but I fear it would affect my studies / work?

This is a misconception. In fact, it is own fear which would affect your studies / work. If you start exercising and training your mind, body and breath, you will notice the focus will improve. This in turn will enhance your memory and studies / work efficiency.
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I can take out one hour out of my schedule every day for training, but cannot guarantee a "particular" hour. Will that affect my health adversely?

Ideally, between each training sessions, the body must get 24 hours rest. Therefore if possible you must train at the assigned hour. However, if you can not, you can train at your own convenience. This will not affect your health adversely. In fact, as you progress, your body itself will adapt and reschedule itself to your bio-rhythm.

How do I know which type of gym exercise is best suited for me?

Any exercise, if done in absolute comfort zone, is good exercise. Never exert yourself beyond your body’s permissible limits. Second yard stick is to maintain natural breathing rhythm whenever you are exercising.

Which technique out of meditation, body training, and pranayam is better to manage stress?

All techniques which integrate the training of body, mind and breath are good techniques. Essentially, the resultant yard stick should be a feeling of well being in the state of body, mind and breath. All the labels which these techniques carry are meaningless if they do not help you experience a sense of well being and all the three parameters of mind, body and breathe simultaneously. For example, you may feel sense of physical well being but mentally you would be experiencing total chaos. May be you will experience mental peace but no physical balance. So any technique of meditation, body training and pranayam doesn’t integrate all these three parameters is an incomplete technique.

This is explained in detail in Essential Readings.

What steps should I take to get rid of anxiety?

Anxiety is a state of mind which is reflected and manifested through the physical body. A simple way to tackle anxiety is to start training at gross level that is working the physical body with any activity which you enjoy doing. As you progress further, you can start training your breath which would further change your state of mind.

How many hours of exercise is needed in a week to stay fit?

If you are committed to health, exercise must become a part of your life - a habit as regular as your daily shower. This is the most important factor in the success of an exercise program. Here are some ways that people have successfully made exercise a part of their lives:

Log everything you do for a week (you can even make mental notes). Find the spots where you can fit in exercise. Make an appointment with yourself to exercise, and treat it as importantly as any other appointment you have. Make exercise a part of your routine

At my office place, work is all mental work. Would exercise help me improve my productivity?

Of course, yes. This is explained in detail in “Our offerings >> Preamble”.

Weight Training FAQ

I am new to weight training, how should I begin?

Seek advice from a professional.

I am carrying a past injury, is it ok for me to do weight training?

If the injury is healed, you may start weight training in consultation with a professional health expert and your doctor.

Is it true that overweight people are to avoid weight training?

The reverse is true. Over weight will benefit from a properly designed health programs which includes weight/strength training.

Is taking supplements necessary for weight training?

Not at all. There is no connection between weight training and supplements. The trend of taking supplement was started by the western society which has no science of dietary pattern. Their basic eating patterns are very erratic and incomplete in essential food ingredients. Therefore to have a complete healthy meal they have to complete their food with supplements. But any individual having a wholesome meal need not ingest external supplements. Weight training has no connection whatsoever with supplements.

What exercise would you prescribe to increase my height?

This is a myth that with exercising an individual can increase the height. The height of any individual is pre-decided by the genetic code he/she has inherited from their parents. What exercise does is to enhance your postural alignment thereby giving a feeling of increased height.

I am practicing yoga for last 10 years, why should I do weight training?

There are three essential physical parameters which need to be trained for overall physical balance. They are strength, flexibility, endurance. Weight training is the fastest way to enhance the parameter of strength. Most yoga schools in the world today are teaching only assanas (postures) in the name of yoga. These postures are nothing but flexibility exercises. They complete only one parameter, namely flexibility. Therefore for complete physical program weight training is an essential ingredient.

I have back pain, is it because of my sitting posture?

Back pain for any individual could be because of many reasons. But basically, it might occur due to an internal physical or mental imbalance. It might also occur due to external factors like improper posture, impact or accident.

Should girls do weight training? If so what would you prescribe?

Weight training is a unisex mode of strength training and can be practiced by anyone under professional suprevision.

In weight training, is “the more the better”?

This is explained in detail in “Pain in the mass”.