Body building, figure shaping workouts, aerobics, and other heavy exercises, mostly taken up by young people these days, increase one's appetite enormously. The young man starts eating more and builds up a good shapely muscular body. After a year or two he discontinues due to professional constraints and continues to eat the same quantity of food which he was consuming earlier as he psychologically got used to it. Consequently, he puts on weight, develops high cholesterol and subsequent complications by the time he reaches the age of 35. Walking as an exercise is meant for elderly people above the age of sixty

who cannot take up any other form of exercise due to medical reasons and age. People young and old who go for regular walks hardly cover a minimum of 6 kms in an hour is the usual observation. Those who have been doing regular walks for years, majority of them develop osteoarthritis of knees by the time they cross 60 years, the condition requiring knee replacement.

Hence, Yogic exercises, simple and practical for everyone, keeping in view the health of an individual have been worked out here.