Shamefully this is what the people I meet on a daily basis see. Yoga is the feel good stuff and exercising is for people who want to look like bodybuilders. May seem funny to some but this is seriously the feedback I get from lots of people from all over the world and all walks of life.
Even worse are the studies that place yoga against "conventional exercises" for hypertension and overall health improvements in the elderly. I simply can not believe people who study the science of exercise can not see the big picture here. They literally are in the middle of trees but can't see the friggin' forest.
There is not a difference between yoga and exercise. Yoga is a specific and generally dynamic form of exercise. Yoga is not just stretching and breathing. That is like saying gymnastics is just swinging and jumping. Gray Cook once brought up a good point about complex movement patterns creating an environment where the body stabilizes, balances, stretches, and contracts all during one exercise. Yoga is quite similar to this. I personally do not call myself a raving fan of yoga, but I know that yoga is just another form of exercise or movement patterns we should not attempt to segregate from other forms of exercise.
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Good for you!
Yes, Yoga is good exercise.
I had this discussion with a couple of trainers and they want to have this "well its good for stretching", but from a non professional point of view if your using your body weight for lifting, balancing and stretching then why isn't it isometrics?
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Hm hm.. that's very interessting but honestly i have a hard time visualizing it... wonder how others think about this..
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