{"id":54,"date":"2026-09-05T04:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/2026\/09\/05\/how-often-should-you-practise-a-realistic-guide-for-new-students\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T04:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T04:57:32","slug":"how-often-should-you-practise-a-realistic-guide-for-new-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/2026\/09\/05\/how-often-should-you-practise-a-realistic-guide-for-new-students\/","title":{"rendered":"How often should you practise? A realistic guide for new students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The honest answer is twice a week. Once a week is enough to enjoy yourself but not enough to change much. Five times a week is wonderful and, for most people with a job, unsustainable past the first month.<\/p>\n<h2>The first eight weeks<\/h2>\n<p>Two studio classes a week, ideally one flowing and one slow. Add a ten-minute home practice on a third day if you want to move faster.<\/p>\n<h2>What changes and when<\/h2>\n<p>Sleep usually improves first, often within two weeks. Flexibility follows at around six. Strength takes about three months to become obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The honest answer is twice a week. Once a week is enough to enjoy yourself but not enough to change much. Five times a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beginners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-yoga-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}