Including Yoga In Your Fitness Training Program
Why not enhance your athletic performance, improve the results of your fitness training and prevent injury by adding yoga to your exercise plan now?
A well-rounded yoga practice includes dynamic flexibility training, core stabilization, strengthening and balance work. By focusing on these vital elements, yoga can help you recover faster after workouts, open up the tight areas that hinder performance, improve range of motion, and developmental focus and concentration.
You might be thinking to yourself, “Stillness? Acceptance? Balance? That’s boring.” If that’s the case, maybe you have not yet tried to stay still in an arm balancing pose or even downward dog for a good length of time. Yoga can test your body and push it to its limit, all while fostering intentional breath and mental focus and stillness. It’s a triple-edged sword.
Yoga fosters balance because it is itself a balanced practice, allowing you to achieve a wide range of athletic goals, mobility, strength, and flexibility all at the same time. And if you’re an athlete, yoga can bring a new balance to your training by helping you prevent injuries.
Yoga can also provide benefits for specific exercises and activities. With the right combination of poses, you can create flows to target muscle groups and skills that are specific to your sport.
Yoga widens range of motion and increases access to more muscle fibers, allowing for more substantial hypertrophy in any given muscle group. If you supplement your regular lifting routine with yoga classes, you’ll be able to activate ignored sections of muscle.
Deep abdominal breathing is a huge part of yoga, and it activates the parasympathetic nervous system. This lowers levels of cortisol, a hormone that forces your body to hold onto belly fat. Training yourself to breathe deeply through yoga can reduce stress and cortisol levels in your daily life.
Practicing yoga is lowering your heart rate. More intense yoga routines will challenge your heart and breathing rates, which strengthen your cardiovascular system and can lead to a reduction in overall heart rate. Your breathing volume can also improve, providing more oxygen for your body to work as efficiently as possible.
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