Many people make commendable decisions by starting or improving their yoga and/or other types of physical disciples to improve their physical, mental, and even spiritual well-being.
Although the intent is good, sometimes too much enthusiasm and too little knowledge will actually keep you away from your goals. Of course, we all know that the person who started like a rabbit ended like a rabbit... Looking at the turtle over the finish line on the side of the road.
However, in this article, I will not mention these obvious mistakes. Instead, I want to share with you a few but very important pitfalls that are too easy for us.
Let's take a look at the group course first. Group lessons are a very convenient and affordable way to improve your practice. But how can you be sure that what you are improving is something that really needs improvement?
For example, let's assume that someone's hips or knees are too unstable. We also assume that this person is in class and they will do a lot of closed hip open poses/postures. When they are now unable to stabilize, the integrity of these joints adds more flexibility and range of motion is disadvantageous.
Now why should I specify a deleted post? Because of some standing postures, if they are done correctly, these unstable joints may be strengthened. Therefore, these are beneficial to some extent. However, the can column will relieve the pressure on these joints and provide only greater flexibility for all practical purposes.
Now let's see why people choose to take the courses they do. Of course, it may just be the various financial and/or logistical factors that lead to their choice. Or maybe just because they like these courses more than others. However, there are traps here:
People tend to like what they are good at and avoid things that are not good at them.
So let's take a look at people with unstable joints. Their instability is likely to make them more flexible and allow them to have more range of motion in stretching positions in these areas. Although they may "make better" when doing these poses rather than doing stronger, more stable postures, they made the wrong choice here.
They actually exacerbate their imbalances by making their unstable regions more unstable and without increasing the flexibility of their stronger regions and strengthening their vulnerable regions.
So what does a person want to do? I am very glad that you asked!
First, we must take a good look at ourselves and determine where our strengths and weaknesses are. Then we must try to look at the underlying causes of these strengths and weaknesses.
Second, we must determine our likes and dislikes and link them to strengths and weaknesses. Do they have a relationship? If so, why and how?
If we can do these things, we can make more informed choices in our practice. We may find that we will eventually change our work, how much work we have done and/or how strong we have done. We can tailor our practices to our needs and not to the needs of others or others. In fact, maintaining the most important needs in our thinking may lead us to ignore our preferences when choosing the time, place and manner of our practice.
Our practice must always be our practice. If not everyone does the same imbalance, the generic routines won't be specific to everyone.
Therefore, even in the group, even with the best coaches, it may be best not to do the postures that lead to your imbalance, or you can choose to modify certain positions or not hold them for a long time.
Of course, the best way is to do something to correct your imbalance. This is better than not making these imbalances worse.
Some kind of resistance training may be orderly. Whether you choose a different pose/pose, weight exercise or assisted resistance training [read weight training], it is important that you take some steps to help correct your problem area.
Of course, this is true for everything. If an aspiring pianist is very good at reading and playing music and is not very good at improvisation, what is the probability that he/she will spend a lot of time playing jazz instead of classical music?
The same is true for weight training. If a person has strong back and little flexibility, he/she may hate doing squats and/or death lifting. Instead, they may do a lot of work or pull them down.
However, this is exactly what they should not do because it does not address the lack of flexibility in their lumbar pelvic region. They are strengthening their strong areas and ignoring their weakness/tightness. Instead, they should do some other types of weight-bearing exercises that will help correct their structural imbalances. They should seriously consider yoga or pilates to help make up for their special circumstances.
Power without flexibility is as useless as flexibility without power! [Remember, you have heard of it here!]
Working Smart is almost always better than working hard. Of course, Smart Smart and Hard are the best.
If you need help determining your imbalance and what you should do to help correct them, please contact me. We will work together to find and solve problems within your physical limits.
Orignal From: Does your yoga practice make things worse?
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