Is yoga a meme or does it actually have substantive benefits?

I like yoga, by the end of a yoga session i feel so good that i have a rock hard erection.

Thread almost derailed. Yes yoga is good
flexibility=easier movement

I do it every tuesday and thursday. Benefits yet to be seen for me, but i am sweating pretty good by the end.

>flexibility
For what? Sex? You fuckin cumbrain, stretching isn't necessary. Stop thinking with your goddamned dick.

Can the mods just do your jobs
This amount of beta orbiting is making me sick

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Spoken like a true faggot

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makes pulling your ankles behind your ears easier for optimal access to your pussy

Yes the only reason for flexibility is sex.

Thanks for your input. Retardo.

have sex

It’s good for flexibility, core strength, and relaxing. It builds some strength but not at a rate that makes it supplant normal strength training.

post body or go back to school

Shut up, cumbrain. Flexibility is not making gains. This board is about gains. Not cumbrain exercises.

Usually things that have a high population of women doing it are memes

what kind have you been doing and how long?

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the classes i teach are 80% men. we mostly do core, shoulders and either hips or hamstrings which is probably why

Vinyasa Flow, 1 hour

Its pretty amazing . Counteracts sitting all day. Just go classes with a hot af instructor too

You gotta do it alot to progress

lmao, anyone who says its a good workout doesn't actually do any physical activity. You may as well ask a skelly on how to gain weight

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Its beneficial to make you flexible, but its not actual exercise.

lol i meant how many weeks my bad.
you can always make poses harder/more challenging to up the work out if you wanted.
ie. you can widen your stance with warrior 2 to get a perfect 90' in the front leg, focus on your core to keep is tight (not flex in the mirror tight but engaged), relax your shoulders away from your ears and take eyes of the elbow and palms to ceiling to engage chest shoulders and forearms

Yoga is for fat bitches who want to pretend they exercise because they decided to barely move without sitting on the couch

t. Femanon

my skinny ass friend does yoga all the time. Not hating on it but don't go around calling it a good workout

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depends on the type you do

also post body

as with all workouts, if you OHP 10 pound weights all the time you will never make it even though it is a good workout. there are many levels of yoga to increase the workout, however it will always be body weight workout i know

thanks friend. i go pretty deep with everything and the instructor always encourages us to go deeper with each breath, which i do. I'm almost 90 degrees on warrior 2. i love doing the vinyasas. I despise everything that does my quads, which is a lot.

I always have to remember to engage the core, which i don't always do.

I consciously pull my shoulders back as instructor always is talking about that, so that one is second nature.

using just 10 lbs for the rest of your life isn't working out either. Why even use an example of not working out to prove your point? Jogging would be a better workout

why not just learn gymnastics? Not only will you become more flexible, you gain strength and crazy mobility as well.

good, it sounds like youre doing great just keep at it.
the point was that 10 pound ohp is still a work out and easy yoga is a work out. you can make either more intense to make them harder to get better results. it was an analogy.

>10 pound ohp is still a workout
sheesh. Just walking to the mail box is a workout too huh?
Im really trying not to be a dick here other than trying to convince you to stop calling it a workout. Im being a dick in that respect. But wth man... Stop calling it a workout

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Nonsense. Many athletes find yoga beneficial for breathing, flexibility, and posturial management. Entering uncomfortable positions and keeping yourself calm and relaxed is a fantastic skill.

If anything, it is not good at building muscle, but not all of fitness revolves around that.

You sound so heated that somebody called you a cumbrain.

You are being a massive dick, tho. You have some strange sense of superiority as it comes to "working out". I have played a number of sports, have lifted tons of weights, run a lot, and work on a farm, but even I don't find it necessary to call what other people are doing "not working out." You aren't being objective or insightful. You're just being a cunt trying to prove your superiority.

Stfu roastie

You'd know, cumbrain

Shut up cumbrain

Good argument. Way to prove the point of you being irrationally motivated by your ego.

>this is a superiority thing
>not one of syntax
jesus christ, if anything you are making it into a superiority thing to stroke your ego. Its like if a student said that their job was studying to an employer. Studying is not working just like how yoga isn't working out. Nobody says, "hey lets go workout" to do yoga. You say, "lets go do yoga." Its purely all syntax on my side.

Fucking cumbrain

I like Yoga. by the end, i'm really breathing pretty hard.

Not last set of deadlifts hard, but hard nonetheless.

you are very dense. i will try to help
>Just walking to the mail box is a workout too huh?
they are called farmer walks so yes it can be.
you can make lifting or yoga more intense to make it a better workout. add weight to lifts, go deeper and preform harder poses for yoga. you can also do yoga with weights if people wanted. DDP yoga is a good example
a workout is not just lifting weights or running

You mean "semantics" not "syntax" you absolute idiot

if your response to
>do you workout?
is yoga, no one is going to take you seriously.

>you absolute idiot
Yea you fell for it hard. Way to be emotionally invested in calling it a workout to stroke your ego.

Tendons get tighter as you get older. Keeping them elastic means you are less likely to develop tendonitis which takes fucking forever to go away thanks to poor bloodflow

>farmers walk = walking to the mailbox and back
Carrying your mail isn't a workout either.

>yoga is a workout
No. Gymnastics is a workout. Running up many flights of stairs is a workout. Yoga is not.

youtube.com/watch?v=R2gfbF3VUDs
This is what this reminds me of. I am Hank trying to deal with your stupidity

>Yoga is not.
why not?
please add some detail for my tiny brain

Sounds like you don't know what syntax means. It also sounds like you're making up your own definition of "working out" without any real authority or credentials other than you wanting to be the big guy. Even something as simple as walking is a work out. Is it extraneous working out? No, of course not, but not everything has to be extraneous to meet the basic definition that most health and fitness professionals would agree on.

Most people who do yoga probably also have a number of other things they do.

The irony of the episode is that the yoga actually helps Hank.

What exactly are you working on other than flexibility?

As therapy. It wasn't to help strengthen lower back or anything.

What's a good yoga program for a beginner?
I want to get into it for the flexibility gains but have no clue where to start.

>even walking is considered a workout
You may as well call going to your job a workout then if you don't want to differentiate what is and isn't considered a workout. Also, that syntax thing was bait because of the user saying how emotional I was with my argument. user immediately went to that word and used it as a counter argument against me

Physical therapy is working out. It's just doing lighter, gentle movements to deal with pain, but it's working out, and it is often streghtening muscles to fix muscle imbalances. Again, this is my point. Your definition of working out is not objective and is based completely around what you think makes you appear better than others. For an 80 year old woman, walking around for half an hour is a work out. For someone who is injured, physical therapy is a work out. There's no point in changing the definition just because you don't find it cool enough.

balance, entire core, posture, breathing, arms, legs, back(lower and upper)
an astanga yoga class has over 80 pushup in 1 class.
ill ask again, why isnt yoga a workout? please be specific

Well, I work on a farm. My job involves a lot of working out.

>for those who are very disabled, its a workout
>therefore, its a workout
>you're just too retarded to understand me
Are you trolling me or are you being serious?

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>arcanine
Somebody got the university wifi banned from Jow Forums for 3 days by posting Arcanine porn on /vp/

I don't understand where the fault in the logic is. I'm sticking to the standard, generalized concept of exercise that most experts would agree on.

It's like if I say blue paint is still paint, but you don't think it's paint because you don't like the color blue. It's still paint.

>incorporating pushups into yoga
Pushups is a workout. Yoga is not. Learning how to balance yourself is not a workout, thats just a skill you have to attain for nearly everything.
>Entire core
yeah, you develop this maybe after the first week and it doesn't get any better than this.
Breathing is not a workout. Lmao at you thinking your legs and back get a workout doing yoga.
A person half asleep can get through a whole session. YOu dont need recovery time, you don't need a minute to catch your breath, you don't need to encourage people they can finish the set, etc. Its like gamers thinking they are playing sports or soemthing.

oh well excuse me. However, i have met a lot of farmers and most of them are skinny. So i dont know how good of a workout that is alone

>A session of vigorous physical exercise
>yoga
choose 1

What about them being skinny would imply that it isn't a good work out? Is this the crux of things? Have you narrowly defined exercise to be muscle development?

im saying how its not effective enough to translate into other physical activity. My lord. What is with you and the whole muscle size thing?
Construction is also very physically straining but most of them are fat. How about that? Do you understand me now?

We aren't talking about "vigorous physical exercise". We are talking about exercise. Again, you don't like blue paint because you don't like blue. You don't like this exercise because it's not as vigorous as you assume it to be. You aren't catching onto the logic here. You keep making your own narrow definitions and aren't comprehending the main idea.

>We aren't talking about "vigorous physical exercise."
Well good. Because thats what working out is. I'm going with your argument on the "standard definition"

What's with me? I'm only asking clarification on what you said. I'm trying to understand what point you're making because you're very unclear what you actually mean because you say x isn't y, but you won't give a clear definition for y and keep changing shit up based on what you think it should be and not what is commonly accepted by most people.

>its an exercise because it is to me
>it may not be to you but since it is to me, its definitely an exercise
do you not see the irony in your logic?

Working out is equivalent to exercise. Exercise doesn't need to be vigorous to be exercise.

>A session of vigorous physical exercise
>Literal definition of workout
>You aren't going by the standard definition user!
Its not working out. Plain and simple. Its literally just glorified stretching with some added exercises. Holding a pose does not help with strength or endurance. It only helps with maybe balance but thats it.

No I'm saying most people with authority in health or fitness would call it exercise.

>Exercise doesn't need to be vigorous to be exercise
wat?

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Blue paint doesn't need to be blue to be paint? Holy fuck you're stupid.

Every dictionary I have found does not have any sort of "vigorousness" as a clarification for something to be working out. You're the one that made it up.

>widening the goal post, the post
Holy shit, are you the same user i was arguing about how its not a workout?

>Every dictionary I found
Google it you moron.
Also
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/workout
implies you gotta prove some sort of athletic capabilities which yoga does not

lexico.com/en/definition/workout

It's not widening the goal post. It's nailing down that you created a clarification for something that exists no where else but your own head. Every single dictionary from OED to Webster to various online websites to even Wikipedia say nothing of what you require as necessary for something to be defined as your own personal narrow clarification.

Here you go The original argument was about how if it was a workout or not. I kept saying its not a workout and now you are trying to say its about calling it exercise. Im out though, keep talking about the syntax again if you want

Great so we just argued for 30 minutes because one definition out of many involves "vigorous" and we both wasted our time and got nowhere. Great.

Here you go Talks about proving athletic capabilities. Yoga is not athletic either

No, I'm saying it's a better definition for vigorousness to not be necessary as clarification for exercise which OED and Webster both have as equivalent to working out.

We got nowhere here.

imagine telling your friends you workout and what you actually meant was yoga.

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I'm not about to argue definitions of athletic and whether or not your definitions are too narrow because you're too much of a cunt to allow things you don't like into your classifications.

You already made up your mind that you don't like yoga and will stretch definitions out as you choose.

>Standard generalized definition
>Several definitions
Yeah, you really proved to me how there is a large consensus on what is considered exercise or not...

. This was the original argument you autist. I already said no hate, its just not a workout.

Because I can't prove it. You have one smaller dictionary and although I have OED and Webster which are generally considered the best, you can always still point out the small counter examples and attack the credibility of the larger. This won't get anywhere, and we both know it.