- Improves flexibility: practicing yoga will allow your over-worked muscles to lengthen and become more flexible. The yoga poses target muscles that are not used in conventional cardio routines
- Points out faults: practicing yoga will help you to grasp a better understanding of your body and where you are strong and weak, over-stretched and under-stretched
- Prevents injuries: the strengthening, lengthening, and stretching of muscles during your yoga practice will help you to prevent overuse injuries
- Tones and strengthens your body: the unconventional poses in yoga enhance your overall physique through the endless strengthening poses
- Increases muscle endurance: poses can be held for several seconds and are repeated throughout your practice. With a lot of focus on the core, muscles are strengthened to improve your form in your respective sport.
Still not convinced to practice yoga? Stanford’s director of football sports performance, Shannon Turley, has his players take yoga classes regularly to work on balance and flexibility. According to the New York Times, Turley used yoga to condition Stanford Football Players and reduce injuries by 87%. Combining strength training, flexibility and stretching is the perfect recipe for injury prevention among athletes.
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