Your first instinct is probably to add a bunch of weight training or bodyweight sweat sessions to your weekly workout schedule while you are trying
Your first instinct is probably to add a bunch of weight training or bodyweight sweat sessions to your weekly workout schedule while you are trying to boost your strength. Why can't you develop solid legs, use deadlifts, and jumping squats? However, one thing you may not realize is that yoga flow is also an incredibly effective way to increase your strength.
Nike Master Trainer Traci Copeland shared a yoga flow for strength in the latest episode of Good Moves which increases your muscle strength and offers relaxation all at once. Perhaps the best two-for-one deal you 're going to get all week. "I like a lot of different styles of workouts — running, spinning, yoga, HIIT, and power — but I feel like yoga is a perfect mix of strength and balance," she says. "We 're doing power yoga here today."
You will start with all the energizing stretches that relieve tension in your body and make you feel amazing again after sitting all day, every day, in the yoga flow for strength workout-which runs a little over 20 minutes long. Then come all the poses that will give you muscles toned at yogi-level without even realizing it, such as half-moon (stronger abs, butt, and legs), forearm downward dog to forearm plank (stronger arms, legs, and core), and triangle pose (stronger obliques, back, and leg). Even the tiniest muscles you hit as you move from pose to pose.
According to Copeland, in order to reap the muscle-boosting benefits, this yoga flow for strength just needs to be performed a few days a week. "It's great as being a stand-alone workout, and it's great to do before or after running," she says. Click Play on the video above when you're about to work your body from head toe. It isn't going to be long before you feel better than ever before.
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