Yoga has been around for thousands of years but this ancient practice can do more than just help people get in touch with their spirituality.
Over the past few years yoga has risen in popularity with its health benefits often being publicised. The medics of the sporting world have not ignored this and it is now being used in sport to great effect.
Yoga used to be seen as something for professional or intellectual types only but not any more.
It is accessible by all, but these days even more so due to the number of new yoga studios that are appearing in all parts of the world.
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 positive things being reported by sports people include some results that are pretty unexpected.
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.
An even less obvious benefit to the human body might be considered in the case of a boxer. The particular style of training for the average boxer is designed to bulk them up and make them balance somewhere between super strong and lightning fast.
This might mean that the boxers muscles are shortened as well as tightened and that in turn might mean a slightly smaller reach. The short tight muscles may be more powerful but long term health does not benefit at all.
Some of yoga's postures are designed to stretch the muscles and increase their length and this would surely be incorporated by the YSS into the boxers training.
His speed, movement and agility would all be increased and he would also have increased awareness giving him more 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.
Over the past few years yoga has risen in popularity with its health benefits often being publicised. The medics of the sporting world have not ignored this and it is now being used in sport to great effect.
Yoga used to be seen as something for professional or intellectual types only but not any more.
It is accessible by all, but these days even more so due to the number of new yoga studios that are appearing in all parts of the world.
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 positive things being reported by sports people include some results that are pretty unexpected.
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.
An even less obvious benefit to the human body might be considered in the case of a boxer. The particular style of training for the average boxer is designed to bulk them up and make them balance somewhere between super strong and lightning fast.
This might mean that the boxers muscles are shortened as well as tightened and that in turn might mean a slightly smaller reach. The short tight muscles may be more powerful but long term health does not benefit at all.
Some of yoga's postures are designed to stretch the muscles and increase their length and this would surely be incorporated by the YSS into the boxers training.
His speed, movement and agility would all be increased and he would also have increased awareness giving him more 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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