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And now for your YD sports update! The big story here? YES, there is YOGA in FOOTBALL! And these guys aren’t afraid of pastel mats and farts. As far as sports go, and really any kind of athletic activity, especially where your body is tossed around like a pinata, it’s not just post-injury rehab, but [...]
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In our next installment of ‘Yoga is not too wussy for HS or football‘, come the Santa Monica Vikings! Let’s hear it for the boys! And Yoga. And coach Jason Battung who pushed through the snickers and giggles to help improve the team! Taking a page from the playbook of a handsome handful of pro-athlete [...]
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Now here’s something to cheer about!
By now we’ve heard lots of great news about pro sports teams adding yoga to their training regimens (LA Dodgers, Cleveland Cavaliers, Ireland’s Connacht Rugby team) and how some stars like Lebron James are inspiring kids by bringing yoga to schools. Elementary aged kids are even getting yoga in the [...]
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UTC Quarterback Edges Out Competition with Yoga
Junior quarterback, Tony Pastore, is vying against four other dudes for the starting position at University of Tennessee at Chatanooga, so basically he’s willing to try anything to give him an edge, even yoga. Since he lunged into his 4-class a week practice the man has lost 25 pounds, [...]
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Darren Markle is a 6-foot-1 233-pound high school senior – a pretty good stature for a linebacker, and a powerlifter who can bench press 400 pounds and squat more than 300. Impressive! But we’re cringing just thinking of all that compression on his spine! Indeed, some critics say the chap is too stiff to play [...]
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You may have heard Superbowl XLIII this Sunday pits the Arizona Cardinals against the Pittsburgh Steelers (no? don’t worry, to be sure we had to look it up!) But did you know both sides have yogis on their team??
We mentioned way back in September about yoga making baby steps into the Pittsburgh Steelers’ training regimen. [...]
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MORE Yoga at Football Practice!: The Titans and Rams took time out from their joint practice sessions to work out the kinks and ease the frustrations of their aggressive sport.
OK, when we said we sensed a budding trend of yoga in football we had no idea it was spreading so rapidly. These big hunks of muscle [...]
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As a University of Georgia freshman football player, and No.1 place kicker in the nation, Blair Walsh practices yoga to keep focused and limber for the game. Picking it up in his sophomore year of high school, he’s found that yoga practice helps his game both physically and mentally.
“You just have to get in that mindset of [...]
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Former stoner, Miami Dolphins retiree, and generally nice dude, Ricky Williams, 31, has failed more drug tests than we can remember, but he wants you to know he’s through with his pot-smoking days and is fighting his way back into the NFL again, you know, for the love of the game money. “No. 1, it’s a good salary,” he said. [...]
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