INTRODUCING YOGA AT 3RD STREET BOXING GYM

Few things appear more contradictory than a combination of boxing and yoga. Yet, this fitness phenomenon is a perfect balance. You train your sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight) while boxing and your parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) while practicing yoga. Each practice complements the other, enhancing the benefits, and giving you a comprehensive workout.

Boxing boosts your confidence and determination and gives you the grit to act toward your goals. In contrast, yoga helps you to cultivate patience, clarity, wisdom, and peace. Both are needed whatever we want to manifest in our lives.

Boxing training involves spending a lot of time in unnatural positions, which can lead to some pretty nasty muscle imbalances. Fortunately, yoga can repair all of these boxing-specific issues.

5 benefits of yoga for your boxing technique:

• Breathing techniques can regulate your heart rate and coordinate your breath and movement, improving your fight technique between rounds

• Regular stretching helps extend your reach and lengthen muscle fibres that are shortened and bulked as a result of impact during boxing training

• Yoga benefits balance by improving your center of gravity and explores the interconnectedness of movement (lack of balance causes unstable movement resulting in quicker fatigue)

• Reduces the risk of injury by warming up cold muscles, tendons, and ligaments that are vulnerable to injury, while building functional strength and mobility

• Mitigates stress by decreasing the activity of the sympathetic nervous system, allowing the lowering of excess anxiety at will, resulting in calmer and more focused functional boxing training