This is absolutely fantastic and inspirational. This once-quadriplegic lost over 140 lbs. and regained his mobility by doing power yoga:
Yoga: a great way to meet chicks, improve flexibility, and rehabilitate injured joints?
Count me in!
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The more athletic forms of yoga (vinyasa and ashtanga) are a kind of low intensity or sometimes even medium intensity conditioning. It develops they mobility in most, if not all the movements, and the exercises are usually taught progressively (there are ways to make the movements progressively harder). So it makes sense that it could be used for rehabilitation in some cases. I doubt it would be more effective than seeing a good physical therapist, though.
In terms of stretching for sport, it will probably have more stretches than you need. But I do find that it has lots of great stretches and mobility work for the piriformis, psoas, lumbar spine, SI joint, and shoulders. It seems like a basic 5-10 minute sequence of carefully chosen positions will keep away 99 percent of those niggles that I get around the middle.
Definitely good for meeting people, though.
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I have been doing Yoga for about 6 years. Been off anything serious for almost a year since my stupid gym got rid of it. An hour of intense Yoga is great for your mind and body. You should mix it with weight training, of coarse. But the meatheads who tried to do it because their GF were in there always quit after about 15 minutes. The Yoga where I was at was no joke under certain instructors.
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I was going to make a reference about DDP's Yoga for Regular Guys, and low and behold, there he was anyway.
I've done yoga on and off for a few years. It would be laughable to deny the strength and conditioning aspect of it.
Well, I did it for 8 years quite consistently and I can tell you that there is at best a minimal strength element. The standing postures have nowhere near enough resistance to develop lower body strength (although it can certainly develop muscular endurance). The full arm balances, like the handstand, scorpion and the headstand can involve a little strength, but they are mostly technique and balance.
The conditioning element shouldn't be overstated. Ashtanga and Vinyasa style have you moving around enough, fast enough and with dynamic poses a one get your HR up significantly and for a sustained period. Other styles are slower and more relax and have breaks between positions. For conditioning purposes, these are probably comparable to playing a round of golf. Doing it regularly will be good for you, it will keep your weight down, but calling it conditioning is a bit of a stretch (boom boom).
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