Yoga Poses For Endurance

If you come to Revolution Training in Stamford, CT, you wouldn’t expect to see people doing yoga poses. Boxing requires many elements of fitness and endurance is one of those. People who participate in boxing are athletes who focus on maximizing their workouts to get the best results. Yoga is best known to aid flexibility. Improving flexibility can reduce injuries and keep you in the ring, not on the sidelines. It’s a combination of balance training, both static and dynamic stretching, and mobility work. It’s a way to repair your body as you build strength.

Endurance comes from building stamina and improving breathing.

The breathing techniques in yoga can help you stay fresher through every round. Proper breathing is necessary whether you’re doing roadwork or in the ring. Practicing breathing with yoga will help you breathe better when you’re under stress in a fight. Yoga increases your stamina mentally and physically. You utilize your oxygen intake better when you add yoga to your training. More oxygen goes to the muscles and you don’t tire as quickly. Extending your peak performance time and outlasting your opponent can make you a winner.

Yoga offers other benefits, like an extended reach.

No matter how long your reach, an extended reach is not a guarantee you’ll be great, but it helps. The more you punch pads, sparring partners, and bags, the more you shorten muscle fibers. Yoga can stretch the muscles in the arm, hip extension, gait, and stride. You’ll also increase your balance that’s critical for boxing. It allows you to move fluidly and punch opponents while maintaining balance. You can move faster with quicker reaction time.

Yoga is a good recovery exercise.

After an intense exercise session, your body needs a day or two to heal. Lying in bed or on the couch all day is not an option. Your body requires recovery exercise. It needs one that increases circulation and encourages healing. Yoga is an excellent recovery workout. Yoga can relieve neck and shoulder pain and stiffness due to maintaining a tight guard. It’s beneficial for carpal tunnel, so it can help relieve hand and wrist soreness. Whether it’s back pain from quick movements to tensed muscles or head movement, yoga can help bring relief.

• You’ll learn to calm your mind and relieve the stress from training and fights using yoga to help you sleep better. Adequate sleep improves recovery and ultimately improves overall performance.
• Yoga increases your brain power and attention span. You’ll become a smarter boxer who can judge opponents by identifying the correct movements to use.
• Yoga can help avoid muscular imbalances and build strength. Stretch your hip abductors, pecs, and triceps doing Gomukhasana—the cow face pose. Doing that also strengthens hip adductors, rhomboids, and the traps.
• Varying your workout to include other forms of exercise can make you a better boxer. Our trainers will help you find the best methods to help you improve.

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