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Lee

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my training parters mom was talking to us about Yoga the other day, and said that it would actaully help muscle growth and strength, as well as increase felxibility tremendously (obviously). i was just wondering if it really would help muscle growth at all or if she was wrong.
 
dunno about muscle growth, but you could probably lift more in the end by being more flexible and def reduce risk of injury but everyone already knows that. I am looking into doing yoga because i have a huge flexibility problem... I have none
 
muscle growth compared to the masses in the world who lift no weights and sits on there butt all day than yes....... its muscle growth.

to you and your bad self.......... no muscle growth

lol........ hey i would think you would see any benefit, but i may be wrong. i would bet money on it though. maybe stabilizers........ but stabilizers for bodyweight only. flexiblity, yes.

oh well, just my opinion.

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Hey I have done a bit of Power Yoga and I highly recomend it if you are serious about being a complete athlete....It may just be your bodyweight but that was enough to make me work hard, seriously how many people here really work on flexability? Yet everryone always says it is so important
 
I have a Yoga DVD and even the more basic stuff on it is tough work, especially if you're not all that flexible. It works really well. I memorised a couple of very simple "sequences" that stretch key muscles (mainly the posterior chain) and use them often, although this thread is really a wake-up call that I need to stretch more, because I'm getting increasingly tighter...
 
i stretch3-4 times a day for 15 minutes, but yet im not gaining any flexibility, can anyone point me in the direction of a good stretching routine???
 
Do it
If anyone ever tells you it hinders progress or is a waste of time...go look at old pics of Tom Platz doing full splits, or Lee Haney doing SL deads off a flat bench damn near to the floor.
 
ffknight84 said:
dunno about muscle growth, but you could probably lift more in the end by being more flexible and def reduce risk of injury but everyone already knows that. I am looking into doing yoga because i have a huge flexibility problem... I have none
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actually increased 'flexability' often times increases risk of serrious injury
 
I don't see how being stiff is any better...

Yoga works on flexibility AND stability...at when I've done it.
 
I don't know about Yoga, but I'm very flexible to begin with. I stretch alot. I can do splits front-to-back like nothing once I'm warm, and going out to the side I'm almost crotch-the-floor.

I find being so flexible to be a bonus of anyone who's not, especially if it comes to a fight. Being able to perform those splits proves extremely useful when it comes to kicking.

If you have the time and money, try it out.
 
Yoga increases circulation. Circulation is what gets precious nutrients and protein to the muscles where it increases functional size. So yes, yoga will increase growth if you've trained within a couple days beforehand.

-casual
 
I do yoga twice a week. It is great, but only if you have a good instructor. The first yoga instructor I had was very sexy, which was part of why I kept coming back.

It is 95% women in yoga, so you will definitely meet some.

Other benefits:
Burn fat
better circulation
better balance

I feel very relaxed and focused after yoga, so it is beneficial to my total health.

The circulation I get will definitely do me better than cardio. Previously worked body parts are flushed with blood and I feel like this helps me recover.
 
First time I tried yoga I was amazed at how hard it was. Bear in mind I had been involved in kickboxing for about a year and was in pretty good shape cardiovascularly.

I didn't know jack about it and just figured we'd be doing some toe touches and stretches and sitting around indian style. Wrong! After 15 minutes of that class I was literally drenched with sweat and dyin. It was awesome. Definitely worth trying a couple of times.

And yes. The scenery in the yoga classes beats the hell outta the rest of the gym.
 
maybe ill go by a tape on it and learn some of the shit, cuz i definately need to increase my felxibility
 
Huh...
That's kinda weird.

I guess hitting the BACK button on the browser caused the double post.

oops.
 
ffknight84 said:
Zander - thx

Lifter - how so???
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hmmmm its explained pretty well in beyond stretching... the short of it as i recall is increased ROM requires increased strength for that ROM, something thats overlooked... i can look it up if you want.

also I recal poliquin has said that you want only as much flexability as your sport requires, and a tad more.
 
Im looking into yoga classes now. Im as flexable as a 2x4 and uncoordinated to boot, so I think it will help a lot.

Is it ok to have wood in yoga class? :P
 
The strong force that keeps you from streching farther is the same force that would come into play in a sport that could prevent an injury. Having good flexability would allow you to strech and conturt (if thats a word) into unstable and dangerous positions where injurys are dominant.
So I don't think flexability is all that important as long as you have even for your everyday life needs. I actually do do yoga occasionally mostly because its relaxing.
 
PlatnumKowboy said:
The strong force that keeps you from streching farther is the same force that would come into play in a sport that could prevent an injury. Having good flexability would allow you to strech and conturt (if thats a word) into unstable and dangerous positions where injurys are dominant.
So I don't think flexability is all that important as long as you have even for your everyday life needs. I actually do do yoga occasionally mostly because its relaxing.
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I totally disagree. You have it backwards bro. Its too early to get into it, but this is so wrong that I had to point it out. Flexability is an important asset in prevention of new injuries, as well as the safe recovery and protection of prior injuries.
 
Thaibox said:
I totally disagree. You have it backwards bro. Its too early to get into it, but this is so wrong that I had to point it out. Flexability is an important asset in prevention of new injuries, as well as the safe recovery and protection of prior injuries.
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I actually think he's pretty close on this one... i'm gonna go search for beyond stretching and i'll get back to you guys later today or tommorrow.
 
I think flexibility is the single biggest injury prevention, and performance enhancing tool there is, I don't think anyone who has played sports at a high level would disagree. Being flexible has saved me from countless injuries, think about it if you can't do the splits and you get put into a position violently where you are doing the splits, something is gonna tear.

On another note being strong through an entire rom is more performance enhancing in almost any sport, than being strong only in specific joint angles...
 
I may not have been so clear on what I was trying to say. Look at this http://www.dragondoor.com/b09.html these are the people who sell the beyond streching collegiateLifter mentioned. I wasn't saying flexability has no place in sports simply that too much flexability can be dangerous. It's not necessary to be able to put both legs behind your head or be able to lick your elbow. In a physical sport like weightlifting, football, rugby, ect. if your in a strech position you would be compromising your safety. Not only will you be in that position but a person or weights will be giving force onto you as well.
People don't train streches with weights attached to the moving part. In a sport you will want reflex tension to get you out of any unsafe position, assuming normal addequate flexability. If you can't touch the back of your neck or keep your knees locked and even touch your shins that is not normal addequate flexability. Which would also pose potential dangerous situations. What I believe is the safest is a happy-medium or balance of flexability.
 
PlatnumKowboy said:
I may not have been so clear on what I was trying to say. Look at this http://www.dragondoor.com/b09.html these are the people who sell the beyond streching collegiateLifter mentioned. I wasn't saying flexability has no place in sports simply that too much flexability can be dangerous. It's not necessary to be able to put both legs behind your head or be able to lick your elbow. In a physical sport like weightlifting, football, rugby, ect. if your in a strech position you would be compromising your safety. Not only will you be in that position but a person or weights will be giving force onto you as well.
People don't train streches with weights attached to the moving part. In a sport you will want reflex tension to get you out of any unsafe position, assuming normal addequate flexability. If you can't touch the back of your neck or keep your knees locked and even touch your shins that is not normal addequate flexability. Which would also pose potential dangerous situations. What I believe is the safest is a happy-medium or balance of flexability.
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there we go... can still pull stuff outta the book though if you guys are still skeptical. In short be flexible as will tangibly benefit you, don't work on flexability for the sake of being flexable nor for some abstract benefit that you perceive it to benefit you.
 
I will never belive that there is such a thing as too flexible. I belive in developing dynamic flexibility and not just static. jmo
 
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