Enhancing Your Sporting Abilities With Yoga
For many, many years yoga has been helping people stay healthy and get in tune with their spiritual side but is there more to yoga than we think?
Yoga is getting more and more popular and the health benefits it can bring are well known. Athletes of all types are taking heed and now more and more of them are using yoga to achieve some great results.
Yoga is no longer a pastime of the wealthy or the elite of this world.
It is now something that everyone can get involved with and people of all types are turning out at the many yoga studios that have popped up.
A relatively new type of profession that has appeared is the Yoga Sports Scientist. These people train athletes in specific, targeted yoga exercises alongside their normal sports training.
The benefits and advantages that sports people are reporting range from some fairly obvious ones to some less obvious ones.
For instance, if a YSS was working with a soccer player, it might be obvious to say that the exercises taught by the YSS are going to increase the agility of the soccer player, and that could well be one of their goals.
One would not necessarily expect that the exercises taught by the yoga sports scientist would make the player better able to focus his mind on his game, which could easily lead to the player performing well above expectations during his match and winning the game for his team, directly stemming form targeted yoga combined with their normal training.
A less obvious example comes when you consider a boxer. The training they get will probably be designed to bulk them up and make them stronger and faster.
The bulking could result in shorter muscle length which in theory could reduce the boxer's reach. The shorter, tighter muscle structure may be good for the boxer while he is boxing but it wont be good for long term health.
Some of the postures and poses of yoga stretch tendons and muscles and those poses would benefit the boxer very much.
The boxer would also benefit from an increase in agility and movement, increased awareness and ability to focus.
Those who play tennis can benefit from improved agility as well as being more able to stretch for long balls, and reach them. Runners will benefit from greater back, leg and foot strength and the improved focusing abilities will certainly help those that run longer distances.
Professional sports men and women are lengthening their careers at the top level, and thus, increasing their lifetime earning potential at the same time, as in the case of Ryan Giggs, English premiership footballer who is still playing for Manchester United in the first team at the age of 38. Most professionals in that league finish in their early thirties, on average.
Archers can benefit from improved concentration levels and ice skaters can benefit from improved balance, thus proving that yoga and sports of all kinds really are a great mix.
With the advent of the yoga sports scientist we can surely expect to see some great achievements over the coming years in the world of sport.
Yoga is getting more and more popular and the health benefits it can bring are well known. Athletes of all types are taking heed and now more and more of them are using yoga to achieve some great results.
Yoga is no longer a pastime of the wealthy or the elite of this world.
It is now something that everyone can get involved with and people of all types are turning out at the many yoga studios that have popped up.
A relatively new type of profession that has appeared is the Yoga Sports Scientist. These people train athletes in specific, targeted yoga exercises alongside their normal sports training.
The benefits and advantages that sports people are reporting range from some fairly obvious ones to some less obvious ones.
For instance, if a YSS was working with a soccer player, it might be obvious to say that the exercises taught by the YSS are going to increase the agility of the soccer player, and that could well be one of their goals.
One would not necessarily expect that the exercises taught by the yoga sports scientist would make the player better able to focus his mind on his game, which could easily lead to the player performing well above expectations during his match and winning the game for his team, directly stemming form targeted yoga combined with their normal training.
A less obvious example comes when you consider a boxer. The training they get will probably be designed to bulk them up and make them stronger and faster.
The bulking could result in shorter muscle length which in theory could reduce the boxer's reach. The shorter, tighter muscle structure may be good for the boxer while he is boxing but it wont be good for long term health.
Some of the postures and poses of yoga stretch tendons and muscles and those poses would benefit the boxer very much.
The boxer would also benefit from an increase in agility and movement, increased awareness and ability to focus.
Those who play tennis can benefit from improved agility as well as being more able to stretch for long balls, and reach them. Runners will benefit from greater back, leg and foot strength and the improved focusing abilities will certainly help those that run longer distances.
Professional sports men and women are lengthening their careers at the top level, and thus, increasing their lifetime earning potential at the same time, as in the case of Ryan Giggs, English premiership footballer who is still playing for Manchester United in the first team at the age of 38. Most professionals in that league finish in their early thirties, on average.
Archers can benefit from improved concentration levels and ice skaters can benefit from improved balance, thus proving that yoga and sports of all kinds really are a great mix.
With the advent of the yoga sports scientist we can surely expect to see some great achievements over the coming years in the world of sport.
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