Yoga has many benefits for runners everywhere. If you are a runner, having your own yoga practice can enhance your practice.
You can use yoga poses like runner’s lunge or standing forward fold to stretch and strengthen the muscles in your knees, feet, glutes, hips, and groin. The stronger the muscles in your lower body are, the easier running will be.
Yoga can be especially helpful for long-distance runners, so if you love to run marathons or participate in triathlons, you might want to consider incorporating yoga into your exercise routines.
Yoga also offers breathing techniques which can be very useful for runners who are looking to strengthen the muscles of the abdomen and lungs. The better your breathing capabilities, the easier it will be to keep up when running while ensuring you are distributing oxygen to the entire body.
Even if you are a beginner who has never stepped foot on a yoga mat before, you can still integrate yoga into your fitness routines by using it on rest days or for warming up or cooling down.
When you practice yoga after running, you can stretch out your muscles and relieve tension in them while helping to improve recovery.
When using yoga before running, you can properly warm up your muscles and gently stretch them so that you are less likely to pull something during your run.
Yoga also enhances mobility throughout the entire body. Strength and mobility in the lower body are incredibly important when running. In addition, yoga is great for one’s balance, and if you are a runner, balance is essential.
A yoga practice can also help reduce the risk of injury by making your muscles more flexible and increasing your endurance. You can also improve your posture through yoga which can reduce back pain while running.
With so many amazing benefits that yoga has to offer for runners and athletes of all abilities, it just makes sense to incorporate it into fitness routines. If you are a runner, we recommend starting your yoga practice today.
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Runners lunge strengthens the knees, quads, glutes and hips while stretching the ankles, calves, hamstrings, hip flexors and groin.
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