Yoga

WHIP IT!

Any of the weightlifters/fighters/footballers etc here do yoga? I've noticed there are lots of full classes on YouTube that you can follow at home... is it worthwhile and what benefits do people see from it? Looks like fun

Hanley

I think that yoga, like with most things, is probably something you should at least be taught for a while before going at it on your own.

I don't knopw much about it, but I know from watching and coaching people thru movement and mobility drillz it's very easy to compensate and completely miss the point of what your'e trying to do.

That being said I've a yoga place next door to my gym and I KEEP promising myself I'll try it and just haven't yet (cos I'm a lazy dickhead mostly)

WHIP IT!

You often hear older footballers etc talking about how it helped them steer clear of injuries and stuff like that... I've never been very flexible but, touch wood, have never had any serious injury problems, but I do suffer a bit with my hip, lower back and shoulder... just wondering if this might help... I would also imagine it would help with DOMS?

beggars_bush

WHIP IT! wrote: »

You often hear older footballers etc talking about how it helped them steer clear of injuries and stuff like that... I've never been very flexible but, touch wood, have never had any serious injury problems, but I do suffer a bit with my hip, lower back and shoulder... just wondering if this might help... I would also imagine it would help with DOMS?

yoga - it is quality
builds strength, flexibility and core strength.
go to a few classes, it is a good way to start off

fighterman

beggars_bush wrote: »

yoga - it is quality
builds strength, flexibility and core strength.
go to a few classes, it is a good way to start off

Agree 100%, never been so amazed by anything before.

Not alone does it improve your core strength and flexibility as beggarsbush says, it also improves your mental health.

You'll be in better form a greater % of the time.

I find it amazing that the yoga sequences and modern dynamic stretching warm ups are not that far away from each other. (A slightly more dynamic form of each Bikram yoga asana would be a very good warm up)

So the yogis in the 1400's or however old yoga is were doing dynamic stretching!

We can learn a lot from the Asians!

WHIP IT!

No kiddin... think I'll give it a whirl so, Lads. Thanks for the input...

g'em

Hanley wrote: »

I think that yoga, like with most things, is probably something you should at least be taught for a while before going at it on your own.

I don't knopw much about it, but I know from watching and coaching people thru movement and mobility drillz it's very easy to compensate and completely miss the point of what your'e trying to do.

This on a numbre of different levels.

When you start doing yoga you'll think you're doing a pose the right way, but when you can't see yourself doing it it's so hard to know how to self-correct. How you *think* you're doing it and how you *are* doing it are usually quite different. Just like when you video yourself doing a lift for the first time it looks quite different to the awesomeness you think you're executing in your head :pac:

Yoga is a lot more technical than people give it credit for, a yoga insturctor will give you the same much-needed pointers that a good coach would.

Hanley wrote:

That being said I've a yoga place next door to my gym and I KEEP promising myself I'll try it and just haven't yet (cos I'm a lazy dickhead mostly)

There's a New Years Resolution for you right there!! You'd enjoy Bikram Yoga (Hot Yoga), it's a hell of a challenge but very enjoyable.

Doug Cartel

If you stick with it , it may have benefits, but if you're looking to take a few classes and then work away on your own, you may be a bit disappointed.

It's been my experience that you basically end up getting fairly poor instruction and are expected to pick things up by watching what everyone else does. When they do give instructions, some yoga instructors have a habit of using very strange language to describe what you should be doing. You'll hear things like soften your hips or root your weight. Which can be very frustrating if you're used to taking instructions along the line of move this here, put that there, look in this direction. That's my experience with it and other people have told me the same.

fighterman

I have done a few forms of it.

Bikram Yoga is streets ahead.

WHIP IT!

fighterman wrote: »

I have done a few forms of it.

Bikram Yoga is streets ahead.

I've done this and found it very good. But the price is extortionate.

dragonkin

In my experience you are better off doing some of the exercises on mobilitywod, yoga is excellent if you have good mobility and flexibility but I don't think it is a good way of improving flexibility unless the poses are held for an extended period of time. Most of the poses require a lot of flexibility, much more than the vast majority of men have and as a result they simply can't do them without significant and potentially injurious adaptation errors (for instance rounding of lower back when doing downward facing dog).

fighterman

WHIP IT! wrote: »

I've done this and found it very good. But the price is extortionate.

Agree it is expensive.

But the value for money in my view is better than the other forms of yoga, which I have found to be a completetly mixed bag

Bikram Yoga is a standardised routine ( a class in Dublin would be the exact same as a class in Dallas) and pushes you very hard, but the rewards in terms of core strength, flexibility and general mental health are massive too.

diaquinn

i LOVE yoga! especially bikram. I was having the worst aches and pains (i think from sitting in an office all day) and bikram completely helped me. that, and muscle soaks, switching to a memory foam mattress, and getting sole inserts for my shoes, and I have been a new woman!

Burkatron

I was only talking about starting to take a yoga class with the OH yesterday! Since I gave up the martial arts stuff my flexibility has gone to ****! MobilityWod is only helping so much!(I can't take any more supercouching right now)
Anyway, for all the experienced people out there, how do you go about finding a reputable instructor? Over the years (some examples)I've had people tell me this physio is great, that Kettlebell instructor is the best, this PT is AMAZING etc. just to find out that they're crap & potentially dangerous in the way they teach! Is there a standard qualification to start with? Or is it just the usual case of go along and find out??