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Yoga makes you strong as hell, though? Have you ever done yoga or do you think it's just stretching? It's basically a set of advanced bodyweight exercises.
by ahelwer 8y ago
Yoga makes you strong as hell, though? Have you ever done yoga or do you think it's just stretching? It's basically a set of advanced bodyweight exercises.
- TheCapn 8y agoHaving done both Yoga and Strength training myself they're not the same. If anything, they're complementary in the same way that cardiovascular training complements strength training. There's lots of ways to be fit, I just think OP is trying to say you can't put all your eggs in one bucket and expect all the benefits to come to you.
- astazangasta 8y agoOn the contrary OP is saying only strength training matters. This is horseshit. In Eastern traditions people who lack flexibility are considered weak and unhealthy no matter how strong their muscles are. If you can't bend you can't move.
- throwayEngineer 8y agoNo. That's not at all what the post said. I even said stretching, manipulations, and massage have their own merits. These are all used to change the body, but strengthening is the long term change. Best practice is to do stretching, manipulations, massage before the strengthening. But these are my Engineering summary, you can get treatment from a doctor of Physical Therapy that does this as a job.
- throwayEngineer 8y agoJust to clarify, yoga in this context refers to ONLY the stretching. If your instructor is having you do low rep, weighted exercises, it does hypertrophy and would improve that muscle. Yoga is a generic term.
- ahelwer 8y agoThere are ways to become strong other than the 3x5 Starting Strength program. Why even use the term yoga if you meant stretching? I guarantee you any Starting Strength hero who walks into a halfway decent vinyasa class will get wrecked.
- throwayEngineer 8y agoPhysical therapy is not lifting weights. Read the context
- ahelwer 8y agoBecome better at communicating so people don't have to "read the context" and infer meaning in your words that exists only in your head.
- throwayEngineer 8y agoThat is the point of context
- mikestew 8y agoyoga in this context refers to ONLY the stretching. Then you should have just said "stretching". Yoga is a generic term. So is "strength training", but it's not so generic that I get to just make shit up.
- throwayEngineer 8y agoNo strength training is specifically hypertrophy where your body creates new cells. You are more like doing endurance training which make cells for ADP/ATP. And you likely aren't doing it like a perscription where they target the weaknesses. Rather general. In the context of the original post, it is clear why I mentioned yoga in that list.
- albertgoeswoof 8y agoThere's yoga and then there's yoga
- decebalus1 8y agoNot a fan of yoga but this is one of the reasons for confusion. As I understand it, there are several types of yoga, some are as you said, bodyweight exercises and some are basically adult nappy time. Not at all familiar with the terminology but when I used to do weightlifting, I had a minor injury and it was recommended I attend a yoga class. It did not help and I really don't believe it makes you stronger. I mean, probably if that's the only type of exercise, it will clearly beat running or whatnot wrt to strength.
- ahelwer 8y agoYeah, the adult nappy time one is usually called restorative. Things like vinyasa or hatha are pretty intense, though.