Bulletproof Your Body With Yoga
For years top Sports Men and Women have kept it a secret that they do Yoga.
From Ryan Giggs to LeBron James,
Maria Sharapova, Paula Radcliffe and the New Zealand All Blacks,
For Giggs’s part, mixing navasanas and chaturangas into his fitness routine added “another 10 years” onto his career.
After a hamstring injury sustained in training in 2001, he tried lots of different treatmenets, but the only one that kept injury at bay was Yoga.
“Yoga was first about injury prevention, but later it became about recovery,”
Said Giggs.
“The day after a match, the adrenalin would still be in my body. But the following day, when I got out of bed, everything would hurt, so I would do yoga then.”
This weekend Dale from Bulletproofbodies will be starting his Teacher Training with Sarah Ramsden, the Yoga teacher that helped Giggs stay in the Premiership at Manchester United.
It’s not just reserved for yummy mummies with a chai latte addiction.
There is no typical yoga person anymore.
As for those who have been discouraged by feeling they are not
‘the yoga type’,
or don’t possess the required dexterity and flexibility.
“saying you are not flexible enough for yoga
is like being too dirty for a bath”
Backs out of alignment, necks crunched, hamstrings screaming out for mercy as the woman on the mat next to him effortlessly (or so it seems), does the splits or seems to put her toes in her ears!
The idea is to make Yoga a daily practice, all that is required is 10 minutes a day.
Apart from Yoga’s role in sports recovery, the mental health benefits Yoga affords are making it increasingly popular with everyone.
But, the best thing is, at the end of it all and all part of the session, you have a well-deserved lie down.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCXHz-WfykM&feature=emb_logo
