Quote: (11-24-2016 11:06 AM)Cr33pin Wrote:
Also I'm not 100% sure if its due to the yoga but I Monday I had my first push day in the gym where I didn't have shoulder pain in years.
I noticed a similar sort of development when I first started doing yoga as well. I had a tendency when I first started hitting the gym to pinch muscle groups around my neck and upper back. Not bad enough to cause serious injury but enough to keep me sidelined for half a week to a week. After about a month of yoga these minor strains disappeared. I'm guessing it was due to the muscles being wound up like a spring in a box and then coupling that with heavy resistance training resulted in injuries. I typically did yoga straight before a gym session and being relaxed certainly helped (analogous I guess to how drunk drivers suffer less serious injuries in car crashes due to being relaxed and limp when the crash occurs).
On a different note, from a Game perspective for anyone curious to give yoga a try I'd suggest starting off at a class that gets offered as part of (or add-on) to a gym membership. The girls at these classes tend to be fairly novice and don't get an arrogant attitude that I found a lot do when they get to the intermediate level. At a proper yoga studio they tend to be a lot better and I've noticed more of an attitude problem. I'd also say that the gym classes tend to get a better rotation of new girls coming through, especially if it is a large gym.
Add onto that the lifestyle factors of being way less costly and focusing more on the physical stretching than the meditation side and I find it an easy choice to do gym yoga. I'd probably only go back to a studio again if I decided to make it a true lifestyle change rather than just a hobby as I currently do.