Set aside any misconceptions of Instagram girls posting yoga poses alongside their makeup demos and snaps of their coffee.
Yoga has benefits for even the most serious endurance and recreational athletes.
How can it enhance your high-intensity routine?
Take a look at these benefits of yoga for athletes.
Boost Body Processes
Your performance depends on the optimum functioning of processes like breathing, circulation, and digestion. Yoga improves all of those for more efficient energy use.
Better Channel Your Energy
Power leakages lead to wasted energy and effort. If your body is as perfectly aligned as it can be, you’ll make every single shot/punch/kick/run/ride/whatever count.
Improve Focus
Yoga is a practice in breathing and meditation. When you learn how to control your mind and emotions, you’ll be able to better focus on your goals.
Enhance Strength
Yoga won’t add bulk like weights do. But you will gain an agile kind of strength since the various poses have you supporting your body weight on different muscles.
Reduce Chances of Injury
As you strengthen your core, you will draw on the right muscles for power in more intensive maneuvers. Yoga can keep your spine flexible to help you avoid injury.
Get Better Balance
What sport discipline does balance not matter in? Yoga is a gentle yet powerful way to fine-tune your center of balance.
Recover Faster
Here’s where that stretching comes in handy. Most athletes turn to yoga with good reason while recovering from an injury.
Take yoga with our team where we harmonize it with performance and sports training. Get your first yoga class in Atlanta on the house when you sign up with STACK Sports Performance and Therapy.
Posted on behalf of STACK Sports Training & Therapy