Yoga is increasingly being embraced as an ideal form of cross-training for martial arts. More and more martial artists are including some basic yoga workouts in their daily workout routine and they’re seeing benefits in both their performance and their recovery.
So if you’ve been curious about how yoga can benefit your own martial arts training, let’s take a look at 3 key areas in which yoga can up your game.
It will improve your focus.
Yoga is as much about training your mind as it is about training your body, and any good yoga practice will stress the importance of being mindful and focused throughout each move and moment in each session.
It will improve your breathing.
When it comes to training, most martial arts teaches at least some basic instruction about the ways in which proper and disciplined training can both make your attacks more powerful and help to shield you from the damage of counter-attack. Yoga’s focus on breath is on a whole other level, though, with its emphasis on conscious breathing and connecting each movement to the breath.
It can improve your flexibility.
Yoga is perhaps best known in fitness circles for its ability to improve flexibility, and that benefit can translate to martial arts, too. If you’re looking to improve the range of motion in your joints beyond the kind of flexibility training that warmups in martial arts, yoga might be exactly what you need.
