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Yoga sessions specifically structered towards Football teams and Athletes
While yoga and football may seem unlikely bedfellows it seems that more and more professionals are using the discipline to help improve their ball skills.
In Yoga, both the body and mind are exercised. And the focus is on stretching, postures, breathing, and meditation.
Benefits of Yoga for the Competitive :
The benefits of yoga are unlimited. The obvious is the increased flexibility throughout the muscular system, but there is so much more. The athlete can benefit by increasing mobility in the joints, thus increasing range of motion for overall enhanced performance. The athlete will be able to reach farther, fall harder while preventing and minimizing injuries because their muscles have a memory (like a rubber band) from the deep stretching obtained in practicing yoga on a regular basis.
Other Benefits:
Strengthens deep connective tissue preventing or minimizing injury.
Creates overall body flexibility.
Increases range of motion and mobility.
Dramatically enhances physical balance by developing the athletes awareness of his body's center
place, thus keeping their body balanced in action, moment by moment, giving the ability to recover
from or prevent falls, while enhancing agility and maneuverability.
Improves circulation, massages internal organs and glands for optimum health.
The yoga breath circulates and detoxifies the lymph fluid to speed up recovery time from training 15% faster, eliminating fatigue.
The yoga breath builds up increases one's life force energy.
Enhances sensory acuity, mental focus, concentration, mental clarity, will power, and determination.
Dissolves pre competition anxiety and stress. Helps to balance & manage emotions that could cloud
focus, concentration & judgment.
Trains the athlete get and stay in the mental zone.
Quickens mental response time for more effective game play and strategy.
