Bulletproof Your Body With Yoga

                 

Bulletproof Your Body With Yoga

For years top Sports Men and Women have kept it a secret that they do Yoga.

From Ryan Giggs to LeBron James, 

Maria Sharapova, Paula Radcliffe and the New Zealand All Blacks,

For Giggs’s part, mixing navasanas and chaturangas into his fitness routine added “another 10 years” onto his career.

After a hamstring injury sustained in training in 2001, he tried lots of different treatmenets, but the only one that kept injury at bay was Yoga.

“Yoga was first about injury prevention, but later it became about recovery,”

 Said Giggs.

“The day after a match, the adrenalin would still be in my body. But the following day, when I got out of bed, everything would hurt, so I would do yoga then.”

This weekend Dale from Bulletproofbodies will be starting his Teacher Training with Sarah Ramsden, the Yoga teacher that helped Giggs stay in the Premiership at Manchester United.

It's not just reserved for yummy mummies with a chai latte addiction.

There is no typical yoga person anymore.

As for those who have been discouraged by feeling they are not
 ‘the yoga type’,

or don’t possess the required dexterity and flexibility.

 “saying you are not flexible enough for yoga
 is like being too dirty for a bath”

Over the years the Bulletproofbodies Boys have watched many, blokes (including ourselves) struggle, 
unintentionally competing with implausibly bendy ladies and not doing themselves any favours at all.

Backs out of alignment, necks crunched, hamstrings screaming out for mercy as the woman on the mat next to him effortlessly (or so it seems), does the splits or seems to put her toes in her ears!

This is exactly why we are doing "injury prevention" Yoga training, that we can all add to enhance our training.

The idea is to make Yoga a daily practice, all that is required is 10 minutes a day.

Apart from Yoga's role in sports recovery, the mental health benefits Yoga affords are making it increasingly popular with everyone.

So get on the Mat and show me your downwards facing dog!

But, the best thing is, at the end of it all and all part of the session, you have a well-deserved lie down.

Video:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCXHz-WfykM&feature=emb_logo

Bulletproofbodies & Sports Yoga

                     

The OM Yoga show at Event City last weekend was amazing!

Two days of everything Yoga from Laughing Yoga to Yogi Tea.

The highlight for the Bulletproofbodies Team was Sarah Ramsden’s “Yoga and Injury” Workshop.

Sarah has been a Yoga Practitioner for over 20 years.

She is trusted with some of the most expensive bodies in Football.

Most notorious for working with Ryan Giggs and keeping him Premiership Fit with Man Utd up until he was 40!

The DVD with Giggsy is 8 years old now but nothing has changed in the Yoga practice, it's all about being safe in every posture.

Sarah highlights that we need to talk about Yoga and Injury, which is the conversation that we have at Bulletproofbodies on a daily basis.

We love CrossFit, OCR, Yoga, Distance running, Triathlon, Power lifting, Olympic lifting, Gymnastics, to name but a few, but there are risks associated with everything, including the Sports which we all love!

Sarah posed some interesting questions.

In Yoga, we are either just "making shapes" and it doesn't matter how you make that shape.

Or.

Every single posture and joint placement is important and it all matters.

We agree with Sarah, because this is exactly what we teach in Extreme Sports with our clients.

The Workshop focused in a deep dive on only two postures.

The importance of the pelvic position was key.

In Yoga, which has more Female clients than Male there is a tendency to default into an Anterior Tilt position in every posture.

This effectively creates slack in the system.

However, by simply correcting your pelvic position to a more posterior tilt, it changes the whole posture.

Sarah Ramsden

Sarah has been working in professional football with top players at both Manchester City and Manchester United - including working with Ryan Giggs since his early 30's.

In football, Sarah's work includes seniors, reserves, U18’s, U16’s – in large groups, small groups and individuals.

Sarah’s clients in football include: Manchester City, Manchester United, Derby County, Preston North End and additional work for Sheffield Wednesday FC, Notts County FC, and the Football Association.

Sarah also teaches open classes in Chester as well as working with individual clients.

http://www.sportsyoga.co.uk/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/KeepFitDVD