5 Reasons Why You Should do Yoga!

  Do your workouts include spending many hours on the road running? Or perhaps lifting heavy weights in the gym? As important as conditioning your heart, building muscle and burning calories are, it’s also important to spend time on your recovery. Yoga is great for recovery and offers tremendous health and wellness benefits for everyone. Below are reasons why you should make time for yoga in addition to your current workouts:

1. Yoga enhances recovery. Most intense activities generate lactic acid in muscle tissue. If lactic acid isn’t removed properly, it can affect future performance. Yoga can help with the removal of lactic acid by increasing circulation and allowing the lactic acid to exit the muscle tissue and into the blood stream where it can make its way to the liver for processing.
2. Yoga helps with sleep patterns. Muscles recover while sleeping so the better you sleep, the better your muscles will recover.
3. Yoga restores balance and can help reduce injury.   People who are active and play sports tend to become dominant on one side of the body due to specific movements. This mechanical dominance can create musculoskeletal imbalances that can lead to chronic injury. Yoga can help reduce these tissue and joint imbalances.
4. Yoga improves body awareness and focus. Controlling your breathing is an important part of yoga. Breath signifies your vital energy. Yoga teaches that controlling your breathing can help you control your body, quiet your mind and help reduce stress and anxiety.
5. Yoga can also enhance your mood and overall sense of well-being.

TeaME Fitness has teamed up with Kary Sinkule, a local yoga instructor with over 15 years of yoga experience (Sumits & Mountainside) and is offering monthly yoga classes in the park for $10 per class. For more information including park location, you can email [email protected].  Everyone is welcome!