An interesting and effective way to improve as an athlete...
Hi
everyone! Here’s some advice from one athlete to another:
If
you are an athlete or a fitness enthusiast, building your strength, balance,
resistance as well as being skilful in carrying out different motion will be a
thing you will fancy.
Interestingly,
besides your regular and routine workouts, yoga is one of the cheat sheets with
which you can see your dreams come true in no time.
Sure,
it is based on this fact that a lot of athlete and other sports lovers have
found yoga to be one of their most favourite activities in which they engage in
to supplement their normal fitness workouts.
Well,
your next question will probably be “what exactly are some juicy perks why
athletes should practice yoga?” Hmmm! If that’s your query, here are some
reasons why athletes like you should beef up their workout sessions with yoga
Why All Athletes Should Practice Yoga
Sure,
practising yoga regularly can help you to improve your overall fitness by:
1. Yoga increase range
of motion and overall flexibility
One of the ideal
requirements for athletes is steady flexibility exercise, which is carried out
slowly, and this is exactly what yoga provides.
With regular yoga
practice, you are most likely to increase your body flexibility, increasing
motion around joints as well as relieving any form of tension around your
muscles.
With all of these and
more, it is a sure bet that your overall athletic activities will receive a
high degree of improvement.
2. Improving your
stamina and balance
If at all there is one
unique trait that makes yoga to stand out, it is due to its ability to boost
your balance and stamina.
This is usually as a
result of some balance exercises which are incorporated as a routine training
regimen for yoga practitioners.
Sadly, balance exercise
is one of the most overlooked exercises by many athletes. But with yoga, a
well-balanced training routine can be achieved by athletes, and this can go a
long way to prevent injury among athletes.
3. Increasing your core
strength
Most yoga poses are
designed to enhance the core strength of the practitioner. For instance, most
focused and slow yoga movements require isometric contraction as well as a
strong midsection that will help you to withstand pressure from each pose as
well as other machine-based exercises.
4. Yoga enhances mental
training
The mental ability to
remain focused and quiet even in the face of an intense or highly difficult
situation is one of the juicy perks of practising yoga by athletes.
This, you can tell is
true, especially when carrying out poses such as back-bending pose where you
have to remain in a particular position for about 20-30 minutes.
With such training/yoga
exercises, athletes can be able to develop a very strong mental capacity to
withstand tough pressures and situations.
5. Yoga enhances deep
and relaxed breathing
Deep and relaxed
breathing is a key requirement towards a better athletic performance.
Although some routine
training exercises may not be able to develop an athlete in this aspect, the
deep and regulated breathing patterns practised in yoga can enhance the
athlete's performance.
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