Yoga and distance running

if you are a guy, you will be easily treated as a creep who loves to stare at girls tight pants. I guess thats your major benefit

LOTS of runners do yoga.In smaller towns, you will have to deal with buttf*ck hicks like dude above me. In major cities you will find yoga centres are full of other runners who are secure in their manhood.

Multicolored Nike Yoga Pants wrote:

Does anyone do yoga as a regular part of their training program?

What benefits does it bring?

oh I know. my ex is a runner and he does yoga, I believe he most goes for those tight yoga pants on sweaty girls. haha they might or might not be secure in their manhood. hahaha they might not even have manhood at all. thats why ge became ex.

tightpants wrote:

oh I know. my ex is a runner and he does yoga, I believe he most goes for those tight yoga pants on sweaty girls. haha they might or might not be secure in their manhood. hahaha they might not even have manhood at all. thats why ge became ex.

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tightpants wrote:

if you are a guy, you will be easily treated as a creep who loves to stare at girls tight pants. I guess thats your major benefit

I did yoga for a 6 month stretch when I was injured. About 15% of the people in any given class were guys (though probably half of those were gay). People were pretty social across gender lines before and after class, and the regulars all knew each other. More often than not, when a woman set her mat down next to mine before class, she'd say hi. In my experience, everyone was welcome. We'd get food or drinks after class on occasion. There was certainly no presumption that the guys were creeps just looking to ogle girls.

Which isn't to say that there are no creeps who go to yoga class, but creepiness is about how you act, not what kinds of exercise you choose to do.

The reason I quit doing it was because it was so time consuming. The core of each practice session was a great workout, but there's such a slow buildup to get there. After 6 months, I knew the positions well enough that I could do a pretty good 20 minute session in my living room without paying $100/month or spending all that time. I also was never really into the mental/spiritual stuff.

Yoga is just aerobics without motion. They charge obscene amounts of money, you get a tiny square of floor, and you do "exercise."

It's just a social activity, like any other. If the benefits of core workouts for runners are still hotly debated, then yoga is right up there with it.

I have gotten into yoga in recent years. I don't go very often, but every time I do I feel better afterwards. Most recently it felt like my back had been significantly adjusted in a positive way.

Yoga gets a bad rap because a lot of girls think it's exercise and that doing yoga once a week counts as some sort of legit exercise regimen, but it IS good for you. It doesn't burn a lot of calories, build a lot of strength, or work your cardiovascular system, but that's not its goal. It's basically intense stretching that improves flexibility, muscle imbalances, breathing, and posture, all of which are important and relevant to all around health as well as athletic performance. Beyond that, it IS calming, and because physical performance is affected by mental attitude, stress, etc, it can be helpful in that way also.

Overall I think it's helpful to runners but probably not something they should focus a lot on. I've decided to start going once per week, and I think that is enough for me.

he maybe a gay he just hasn't realized it. is this what you are interested in? hahaha I bend a guy to a gayyyyyyyyyyy

I have read in a book written by an experienced coach or physiologist, I can't remember which one, than yoga can mess up your running form because the improved flexibility can result in more lateral hip/upper body movement.

Apologies for the horrible explanation, I'll look it up.

please find the article and share here. Thanks

I'm not sure why so many here seem to assume yoga must be done as part of a group or class. For me, it is done solo as part of my post-run stretching. I have an app on my iPad that guides me through a routine designed especially for runners.