Many sports stars and teams, including the
AFL and the
Australian Cricket team now use yoga as an integral part of their
training regime.
Why? If you play sports or work in a job that involves repetitive movement
or heavy lifting you're likely to develop muscle tightness and imbalances
throughout your body. Ageless Yoga works to re-balance your entire body and return it to
a younger and more vital condition. Yoga also complements many other exercise disciplines and sports.
Until very recently yoga was practiced exclusively by men. But
many men are concerned that they will not be welcome in a yoga class
or that they are not flexible enough to try yoga. This is a basic
misconception: yoga will improve your flexibility, but you do not
need to be flexible to do it.
Since yoga has been practiced by men for so long, many of the
poses actually make more sense for a man's body and some require a
lot of upper body strength, which women often lack at first.
Yoga is becoming increasingly popular with men who recognize how it can
support them in very practical ways. Yes, yoga can help you get strong and
flexible, but it can also help you to recover from (and avoid) sports injuries,
reduce stress, relieve back and neck pain and improve your general sense of well
being.
Unlike many workouts which may leave you tired Ageless Yoga actually restores your energy levels
and increases your feeling of overall health and wellness.
Regular yoga practice can improve your athletic performance and
decrease discomfort after other workouts. Yoga stretches out your
muscles, which can relieve tension and muscle cramps.
Yoga helps you identify tension you hold in your body and in your
mind and can help you release it. Many men have higher stress levels
than women, which means that men may especially benefit from the
stress-relieving effects of regular yoga practice.
Yoga can improve your mental focus, in part by clearing your mind
during the workout. The same slow, meditative aspects of yoga that
provide stress relief also discipline your mind, which can make it
easier to focus on daily tasks.
