What’s This Research About? Practitioners of yoga have different intentions with their practice; such as cultivating spirituality, calming the mind, or being physically active through yoga poses and movements (asana). Googling ‘yoga’ results in thousands of reasons why yoga is the best tool for your health and an efficient path to fitness [...]
What’s This Research About? There have been a number of articles in the lay press about how yoga can be harmful and cause injuries. Yoga schools, teachers, and studios around the world have taken different stands. Some have even gone as far as banning certain types of yoga poses from being taught [...]
What’s This Research About? The current landscape of yoga contains different forms and schools of practice, each with their own explanations about what happens in your body when practicing yoga. Many times these explanations contradict each other. When trying to get a grip on what is most likely to be true, reading [...]
What’s This Research About? When it comes to the physical practice of yoga, you might have heard it requires large ranges of motion (ROM) throughout your body’s main joints. Whether your aim with yoga is flexibility or not, one could benefit from knowing more about this topic. Life requires you to move [...]
What’s This Research About? Maintaining and/or improving flexibility is one of several recommendations in The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) guidelines for fitness and health. Different studies have evaluated different stretching programs. This study aims to evaluate ACSM’s recommendations on stretching, specifically on the hamstring muscles, by (1) comparing two techniques; [...]