(Australia-NewsWire.Com, December 26, 2014 ) North Adelaide, SA -- Yoga has been proven to offer a number of physical benefits, including improved respiration, cardio health, increased muscle strength, and more. Athletes, including many big-name pros present and past, are using yoga to increase flexibility and recovery time. Joe Johnson, LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Dwayne Wade included.
Rigorous yoga, such as bikram yoga, can produce sustained physical benefits that meets the results of harder workouts. Routine and hard yoga sessions can provide health benefits such as improved athletic performance, heightened ability to sustain injuries, regulated metabolism, and more.
In a comparison of the effects of yoga and physical exercise in athletes, conducted at the Govt. Vemana Yoga Research Institute, Raju and researchers found "The results in both phases showed that the subjects who practiced Pranayama could achieve higher work rates with reduced oxygen consumption per unit work and without increase in blood lactate levels. The blood lactate levels were significantly low at rest." These results provide support to yoga's benefits in providing athletes with a more efficient body, that could work harder, using less oxygen, and recover faster.
The Yoga Towel Experts spokesperson Jessica Lauren said, "Yoga provides a number of benefits, but tough yoga workouts can produce surprising results. When an athlete really commits to making yoga work for them, over the course of an extended period of time, the physical benefits easily rival more traditional cardio and muscle strengthening exercises. The longer the athletes continues their yoga practice, the better the results may be. That's exciting news for professionals looking for the most from their body."
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