I recently got a back injury while racing with karts with my friends and heeard yoga is very good for the spine. I also had scoliosis since I was a kid and hope it can correct it atleast a bit.
I follow a 30 day challenge video and just finished the second day sesion. Feels pretty good. I'm a manlet and being stiff has been a part of me all my life but now I feel like I can gain the flexibility I always lacked with this activity.
Whats your opinion on yoga? Very useful activity or soccer mom meme?
same here but im autistic and life in my imagination.
oh wait we are the same sad losers lol
Nathaniel White
Yoga is a marketing gimmick. You can get stretches online. If you don't know what stretches to do go find a torrent of gymnastic bodies "front split". even though its called front split it has a whole series of stretches, in order, with the amount of time you need to hold it for the thoracic spine.
Brayden Thomas
You life in your imagination? haha, i think you meant to type LIVE instead, absolutely epic blunder by you
Christopher Fisher
This might be an unpopular opinion but here goes:
Yoga is great for developing good posture and flexibility, but getting deep into yoga is a bad idea imo. Once you start to enter weird contortionist levels of flexibility, all you're doing is creating hyper mobile joints that are unstable. Yoga only requires enough strength to support your body weight in odd, static positions; what's gonna happen when you're playing a field sport, and your weak, hyper mobile knees get taken out by a guy running at full speed? This could happen in recreational soccer, not just uni rugby or something hardcore. I'd rather be a lifter dude than a yoga dude in that situation.
My mom used to work for a "back" doctor, (several qualifications and methods) and she saw an over-representation of regular yoga practitioners getting injured from car crashes. I'm sure that yoga can be a very good tool for rehabbing joint and spine issues, but you'll probably see diminishing returns once you start getting into above average feats of flexibility.
I don't really have experience with yoga though, so take this with a big grain of salt. It'd be interesting to hear an experienced yoga person weigh in.
Please, for the love of God, if you have a spine injury, please do not do any form of exercise without consulting your doctor first, asking specifically about each exercise whether these are okay for you. This. Yoga has numerous physical, emotional and mental health benefits, but don't assume it's impossible to hurt oneself doing yoga, especially if you have an injury and don't know what you are doing.
Charles Myers
I do it for 20-30 mins upon waking up. I find its a good way to start the day. You can ease into it and by the time its over you're wide awake and ready to get shit done with a good attitude. Women fucking love yoga too so its easy to use as a conversation piece if you have trouble talking to them. Theres some cool poses you can learn as well that aren't super hard either. Theres also alot of spiritual bullshit crammed into it. I would look for strength yoga or yoga for men type routines unless youre into the spiritual side of it.
