Athletes are engaged in regular physical activity. Physical activities can cause the hardening and straining of muscles and joints. This could result in some permanent damage to your body. Yoga provides strength and flexibility, and maintains the health and wellbeing of your mind and body.
- Yoga can correct your breathing and enhance your performance. Conscious breathing or pranayama exercises make you aware of your breath thereby relaxing your body. It soothens the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems of your body.
- Yoga exercises help improve the flexibility and movement of your muscles and joints, eliminates stiffness, lubricates the joints, improve coordination and prevent injuries.
- There are yogasanas to correct the imbalances of your body. Yogasanas improve your body’s balance by helping in loosening, strengthening and making your muscles more flexible.
- Yoga trains your body to coordinate breath and movement. Thus it caters to both the physical and mental wellbeing.
- Yogasanas and pranayamas increase the oxygen intake and helps in the efficient functioning of your respiratory and circulatory system.
- To sustain exercises for a prolonged period of time you need to have both aerobic and anaerobic endurance. Yoga can enhance your endurance and increase your physical and mental stamina. It enhances the body’s capacity to supply oxygen to various muscles of your body during physical activity.
- Your lower back supports a wide range of motions like jumping, twisting, bending and running. It protects your spine, prevents shock and provides stability during motion.
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