By: Jason Maxwell
Submitted: 2010-12-07 04:58:04 | Word Count: 440
Your weight multiplied by 3 or 4 is the force of the impact of your heels on the ground. Therefore it is not uncommon to hear of runners complaining of sore feet, tight hamstrings, even bad knees & backs. Runners can feel pain but the pain does not come from the exercise itself but from wrong balances caused and intensified by running. Yoga can correct these imbalances.
Those who use running to keep fit are probably the most balanced in structure and can definitely manage the physical stresses of the exercise with little or no pain, in other, words the no pain, no gain type. But no runner can last the imbalances that this effort presents. The chronic pain is very common if not aggravated by injury.
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An average runner suffers excessive contraction, tension, and hammering of the muscular system without enough elongation, restoration and slackening work. The tendency of the body is to make up to avoid injury by trying to find a way around the instability if there are no opposing actions. This compensation transmits the stress on the joints, muscles, and even the other parts of the body.
Because of this, muscles to double their effort to correct the discrepancy. The tight muscles increase their tautness and the weak muscles decrease their strength. Tight muscles have the properties of hardness, brittleness, & inflexibility. Their secondary purpose, which is to absorb shock for the body, is gone because they are no longer soft and supple. This can lead to the rubbing & grinding of the joints, causing them vulnerability to injury.
Rigidity of the muscles occurs because the training is focused on specific actions indicated for the sport. So, they do the action again and again making the body perform like clockwork. This concentration on external technique makes the physiology unfit causing excessive tightness.
Yoga can refocus the awareness internally on the body movements instead of the external outcome. This balances the body strength & extends its range of motion. Plus, both the mind and body are conditioned and trained.
Aside from that, yoga develops the fostering of body wisdom and confidence. You will then be able to hear the messages being sent by the body & respond to them as you learn more about the body and its functioning. So, running causes the body to generate lots of endorphins, natural painkillers, which could really numb the pain of injury and illness.
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