“Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that’s the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it’s unequalled”
– Some yoga wisdom from the slam-dunkin’ world of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
I LOVE it when the fitness/sport crowd get in to yoga.
It feels like some kind of win… like all those jocks at high school who mocked you for wearing knee-high socks and failing to get drunk on a Friday night have suddenly seen the error of their bar-pumping ways! Oh… sorry, I digress…Life can’t be anything but a highly personalised experience can it…?
Once I got talked in to trying to run a marathon… I got injured when my training reached a measley 18Km, so I bailed. I am back again though, much stronger and almost cruising at 14Km… and I put this down to falling in love with yoga again at a very relaxed and laid-back yoga centre. Yoga before and yoga after in fact, has made me a half decent runner.
Yours,
Yoga Genie
Chief Bloggist, Yoga Whatever…
