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Flexibility Training

Flexibility is necessary to maintaining health.  Flexibility is our first defense against athletic and work related injuries.  The vast majority of damage to muscles and connective tissue can be eliminated by increased flexibility. There are three things I can tell you about flexibility training, yoga, yoga, and yoga. Nothing even comes close to yoga for flexibility training. You can choose exercises that work the areas you want to work. You don't have to do the asana (poses) you don't like. And it works wonders. I went for fifteen years with a lower back problem, after a week of yoga it was dramatically better, after three weeks it was completely healed and hasn't bothered me a bit since.

Yoga is also great for reaching ideal weight. If you go check out an aerobics class and then go check out a yoga class you'll probably notice that on average the students in the yoga class are much closer to their ideal weight than those in the aerobics class.

I'm not planning to offer yoga instruction on this site in the near future. I'm new to yoga myself and don't feel I yet have the necessary expertise and there are already lots of resources available. There are books, DVD's or videotapes, websites and probably classes available in your area. Here, in no particular order, are some of the websites I've found helpful.