Personal training is a proven way to get the help and motivation you need to reach your fitness goals. Just like nutrition, what you do between your personal training sessions can have a great impact on your overall progress. Yoga classes are a great addition that can be added to your weekly routine to help your performance and minimise the chance of injury.
Improves flexibility
While your first class might see you struggle to touch your toes, with weekly attendance your flexibility will improve dramatically. With this will likely come a decrease in overall pains that could be preventing you from getting the most out of your personal trainer, and diminishing your overall quality of life.
Assists with posture
Yoga helps to align your body on a regular basis, specifically focusing on your spine. We now spend hours every day looking down at our phones, and it is important to correct this posture. While yoga helps to build strength and flexibility, it also helps to improve our overall posture – even outside of class. Yoga will also leave you with new knowledge on stretches to do at home to target specific areas which may be causing an issue, commonly your lower back.
Increases quality of sleep
There’s nothing worse than getting ready for a personal training session and feeling like you need to take a nap. There is so much stimulation in our world that our brain gets no rest in the waking hours and struggles to calm down when we should be sleeping. Yoga helps to provide much-needed downtime by taking time to reflect inward and seeing what our body needs. We often have aches and pains that go unnoticed without taking the time to listen to our body, which can cause injury during more strenuous exercise sessions. Yoga will help to give you a great night’s rest that will provide you with the best chance of a successful workout the next day.
Helps develop strength
Instead of using weights, yoga encourages the use of your own body weight to build lean muscle mass. Yoga is a full body exercise for the days between your gym session and will leave you feeling relaxed and well-rounded.
