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Boost Your Strength Training With Yoga

By on August 21, 2015

Boost Your Strength Training With Yoga

We all know that the stretching is very important, whether you are a professional athlete or you are just visiting the gym from time to time. Why?

Stretching will help you improve your performance and reduce the risk of injury; will reduce the pain in the muscles and improve your posture; it will increase the blood flow in your body and help you to improve your coordination.

Many professional trainers believe that the yoga is the best form of stretching. If you give yoga a chance, you will notice the increase of your flexibility will make the pain in your back, joints and spine disappear and, besides that, you will discover a number of other positive effects of yoga that will help you to boost your strength training.

Proper breathing

Inhale/exhale sounds simple, but when it comes to exercise, the art of inhalation and exhalation is more complicated than you think.  Breathing is a crucial component of any successful training. There are people who do not breathe during workouts, thus CO2 is building up much faster in their body and that can be dangerous for their cardiovascular and nervous system.

Yoga teaches us how to breathe better, deeper, slower and fuller. It improves lung functionality and functional lungs are crucial for all types of training, including strength training.

Breathing exercises, also, detoxify our body due to rapid changes of carbon dioxide and oxygen. They help in lowering high blood pressure, calming the nervous system and reducing the tension and anxiety after a  hard training.

Strength and flexibility

Yoga will strengthen your body and also make it supple – unlike weight lifting where you could probably become stronger, but your body will be stiffer. A flexible body is one of the first and obvious benefits of yoga and with each new hour of yoga exercise, you will notice that your body is becoming more flexible which will make your strength trainings much easier.

Bigger and better looking muscles

Stretching achieved with yoga leads to lengthening of fascia that surrounds the muscles and separate them from other internal organs. At the molecular level, fascia is stronger than steel. When the fascia is stretched, thanks to yoga, muscle beneath it has more room for growth. This can also help in gaining a nicer muscle shape; therefore by doing yoga exercises it is possible to improve the muscle expressiveness.

Stronger Bones

Lifting weights and other forms of strength workouts can cause imbalance of the muscle system, which, in extreme cases, can lead to anomalies in the skeletal system. On the contrary, yoga holds the balance of the muscular system, while strengthening the bones. Therefore, it is clear that yoga should be combined with strength training, as it helps in balancing the muscular system; and when the muscular system is balanced, the possibility of damaging the skeletal system is reduced.

Combination of yoga, strength training and proper diet can help improve the bone structure of your body. Therefore, it is always wise to invest in healthy, organic food. Though many people believe that organic food is expensive, due to the big competition on the food market these days, we can find organics on a budget everywhere.

Yoga and sore muscles

Muscle soreness is actually a build-up of lactic acid in the muscles, which can cause irritation and soreness of the muscles – hence the pain! This is a quite normal consequence of the intensive trainings.  For “treatment” of the muscle soreness the cure is blood circulation. By stimulating circulation, we are helping our system to eliminate the lactic acid, which leads to sore muscles, from our body as soon as possible. Given that yoga improves circulation and enhances the flow of blood, enriched with oxygen, to all body cells, its importance in the fight against sore muscles is evident.

Peaceful mind

Yoga teaches us how to calm our mind. If you learn how to calm your mind, you will live calmer, healthier and longer. Another benefit of combining yoga with strength training, is a better sleep, which means that you’ll be less stressed and well rested for the next training.

Yoga and strength training go together! If you combine yoga with exercising in the gym and strength training, you will reduce the risk of injury, you’ll feel more rested, better and happier; your muscles will be recovered and by bringing enough “oxygen rich” blood to them, you will stimulate their growth!

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Mathews McGarry

Mathews McGarry

Mathews McGarry is passionate about many forms of strength training, and spent years lifting, dragging and flipping all manner of heavy objects. After graduating from the Faculty of Health Sciences, he started writing about his experiences, and sharing tips for better life at highstylife.com and other health blogs. Follow him on Twitter.
Mathews McGarry

About Mathews McGarry

Mathews McGarry is passionate about many forms of strength training, and spent years lifting, dragging and flipping all manner of heavy objects. After graduating from the Faculty of Health Sciences, he started writing about his experiences, and sharing tips for better life at highstylife.com and other health blogs. Follow him on Twitter.

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