Will this benefit my weight loss?

[Anonymous]

I run on the elliptical for 1/2 hour daily and walk my dogs several times a week. I also do strength training 3x a week. I was thinking of adding a short yoga routine, about 20 minutes in the mornings.

1) will the yoga have any benefits at all? I'm not trying to lose a bunch solely through yoga, but will it help lean muscle or is it basically a waste of time

2) I'm trying to lose about 15 pounds and just generally tone and tighten. Will this routine help me achieve that in 4-5 months or is there something else I should be doing instead?

[rachiee]

Make sure you do the elliptical at a high resistance. Yoga is good but chances are it won't do much unless you do the more intense yoga workouts. Even then, it won't tone your muscles. It'll just burn calories, and relax your body. As for if all of this will work, it also depends on your diet. You can do whatever intense workout in the gym but come home and eat a ton of food and everything will cancel out. Also, I suggest you up your time on the elliptical. 30 minutes is good to start off with but an elliptical usually isn't the best method of cardio so you want to get more intense and longer workouts in with it to get results.

[Caustic_Fox]

yoga probably won't do much if anything, wtf does tone mean

[Asker]

Toning...like making muscles more defined and visible. That's my main goal

[Caustic_Fox]

then lifting weights and losing fat is all you need to do, yoga won't do sh*t