Yoga for athletes is specifically designed to complement your other workouts such as weight lifting, running, boot camping, rock climbing, sports, or crossfit. Not every type of yoga fits the needs and demands of the fitness-focused. Some types of yoga can actually do more harm than good.
If you’re an active fitness enthusiast already working out regularly, but looking for a type of yoga to help you get better at what you’re already doing, then you fit into the Yoga for Athletes path. You’re most likely already pretty strong, but you want to get stronger, and you’re looking for a fitness-focused, results-driven type of yoga to help you get there.
Hey guys, my name is Dean welcome to Man Flow Yoga. In this video I want to talk about Yoga for Athletes.
So my entire experience with yoga and my background in athletics and working out is based in sports. I’ve been playing sports my entire life…I’ve been running, jumping, playing lacrosse, soccer and swimming since I was five years old. So my interest in yoga was based in how can yoga improve my performance for sports? And so if you’re watching this, if you’re on this page, you’re probably interested in how yoga can help to prevent your injury, improve your balance, increase your flexibility, maybe work on your breathing and your mindfulness and basically address all of those aspects of fitness that you’re not getting from the other workouts you’re already doing. If you’re an athlete, you probably already have a lot of strength, endurance and you probably have a lot of skill for whatever sport that you’re doing so you don’t need yoga to fill all of your training needs. You need yoga to complement the training that you’re already doing and that’s what this path is for.
So you know there is a lot of type of there’s a lot of types of yoga out there and some of them are helpful for sports, some of them are helpful for athletes but they’re not made specifically for athletes, and this path these workouts that I’ve developed these programs are made for athletes. These are made so they can directly impact and improve your performance for sports. And as I said before you know you probably don’t need to work on a lot of things you’re getting a lot of strength and endurance from the other workouts that you’re doing what you need to do is work on that flexibility, your mobility, your balance, your slow controlled movement, the restorative stuff to complement what you’re already getting from your other workouts.
So I encourage you to check out the rest of this page, check out some success stories we have from athletes already in our community, look at the summary of programming to see what programs and what workouts I recommend for athletes, and then if you have any questions there’s a comment section below…put a comment in there. And that’s it…so guys thanks for watching this video hope you enjoyed I you enjoyed it hope you learned something and I hope to see you in the Man Flow Yoga community soon.
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Summary of Programming
Program 1 – The Strength Foundations Course
Program 2 – Yoga Strength for Resistance Training
Supplementary Content
What specific workouts should you focus on in the Workout Library?
I recommend restorative yoga for days after your more intense workouts (yoga or otherwise), and yoga workouts the day before or after normal training days. (If you’re in the Workout Library, use the search filters to find workouts focused on “mobility”, “balance”, and “restorative”.)
What other workouts / types of exercises should this person be doing?
- In addition to your yoga programming, I recommend doing at least 2 strength training workouts and two 20-minute cardio workouts every week.
- Whatever you are doing, make sure that you are also incorporating pulling exercises into your workout routine at least 2x per week. You can use the Poses, Tutorials, and More section in the Members’ Area to learn how to implement pulling exercises into your training schedule.
