Why Yoga and Bodyweight Strength?
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Why Yoga and Bodyweight Together?
Yoga and Bodyweight training is kind of like a PB&J. Two very different ingredients but compliment each other beautifully. A combination of the two has amazing health benefits over just one and no doubt improves performance in both! Here are my top 5 reasons for choosing each discipline.
Why Yoga?
- Stress relief: Yoga reduces stress and anxiety which in turn lowers our levels of the stress hormone cortisol. Added benefits include lowered blood pressure, improvement in digestion and a boost to the immune system.
- Increased Strength: Yoga is a full-body workout. You are using your own bodyweight, targeting all your muscles with both static holds and dynamic movements.
- Increased Flexibility and Mobility: Mobility has been termed functional flexibility which is that thing that makes it easier for you to complete everyday tasks. In addition, if you lift weights or play a sport, the strains and stresses add up. Mobility allows you to move as efficiently as possible training through the full range of motion improving your performance and reducing the risk of injury.
- Builds self-confidence: Every time you come to the mat, you will be challenged in a different way. Maybe some days the challenge is physical and other days it may be mental. But no matter what the challenge, you will continue to grow stronger with each practice. These experiences not only lead to improvement in your practice but spill over and help you build confidence to take on challenges off the mat.
- Improved weight management: You will burn calories doing yoga but even better, the stress reduction, improved mindfulness can translate to your eating habits, and provide a heightened sense of well-being to your lifestyle.
Why Bodyweight?
- Builds global strength: A bodyweight practice utilizes global strength, meaning you’re engaging your entire body (arms, core, glutes, lats). While you may be using your upper body for a movement such as a push up, you are using your core and legs to create stability in the movement.
- Improved balance: Bodyweight exercises help to create stability whether you are doing unilateral or bilateral work. It strengthens the muscles to help you stay balanced while doing daily activities and helps to prevent injuries.
- Convienence and cost-saving: No gym, no problem! Just like yoga, there is no equipment needed. On vacation, a road trip or at the park with your children and only have 5-10 minutes to spare? Then you are able to knock out a workout. And since there is no equipment needed, you don’t need to pay for weights or a gym.
- Always creative: Bodyweight workouts let you switch things up which will help your workouts from plateauing. You can change it up by mixing in some yoga or cardio and if you ever get bored, you have a myriad of movements to choose.
- Great for everyone: Bodyweight exercises have so many modifications and progressions that fit your fitness level.
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"Siobhan has combined bodyweight strength training with yoga to design a complete workout plan for me. These workouts have improved my fitness and generated an overall better quality of life for me. My strength has improved greatly and my flexibility/mobility have increased as well, which allows for a quicker recovery. Her attention to detail, observations, and coaching enable me to get the most out of my workouts with her. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to workout and Siobhan’s workouts bring the best out of me!"
