Best yoga poses for football players

yoga poses for football players

Yoga provides a two pronged advantage to athletes and sportspersons. In many ways, some introductory Yoga moves correspond to the warming up sessions undertaken by sportspersons. Moreover, the intrinsic stretching and core muscle building attributes of such exercises help players to improve upon their strength and stamina. This is especially beneficial to your body when playing in high intensity and impact sports like football and soccer.

Best yoga poses for football players

  1. Revolved Triangle Pose

  2. Bound Angle Pose

  3. Fire Log Pose

  4. Cow Face Pose

  5. The King Pigeon Pose

1. Revolved Triangle Pose

Also known as Parivrtta Trikonasana, this posture has been developed to act as a warming up session for more complex Yoga poses. Extremely helpful in preparing the body for various twists and bends, the pose in itself requires you to stand in Tadasana. Then you need to bend forward, with your upper torso parallel to the ground, and your right palm touching your left feet. Correspondingly, the left arm needs to be outstretched towards the ceiling in alignment with the downward right arm.

2. Bound Angle Pose

Also known as Baddha Konasana; this posture is perfect for warming up your lower body segments including knees, hips and thighs. The pose basically entails you to sit firmly with your spine straight, while the soles of your feet are pressed together. You would also need to clasp your soles with their respective sided arms (like the right arm going down and clasping the right sole).

3. Fire Log Pose

Also known as Agnistambhasana, this sitting pose is very good for stretching your hips as well as your groins. The posture requires you to sit in a particular manner where you slide your left foot under your right leg, up to the very edge of your right hip. Hence, the left leg acts as the sort of support for the right leg. All of this is to be done while you slightly move your shoulders up by engaging the upper arm bones and keeping your spine relaxed yet straight.

4. Cow Face Pose

Also known as Gomukhasana, this sitting asana results in stretching of our ankles, hips and thighs, and also works upon our chest and triceps. Like the aforementioned Fire Log, you need to stack your right leg atop your left leg (with more angular considerations). This is to be done while you bend your arms and move them behind your back. The right arm is to be moved by the path above our right shoulder blade, while the left arm is to be moved by the path below the left shoulder blade.

5. The King Pigeon Pose

A fascinating twist to the Wheel pose, the King Pigeon or Kapotasana is even more difficult to master. In this case, our inherent body flexibility is tested to the core as we support the length of our forearms (instead of our palms) on the ground. On the other end, we also have to use our whole knees as the lower support (instead of our heels), while the middle body portion is lifted up. However, the brilliant outcome is the much needed stretching of not only our hips and thighs, but also our neck, chest and shoulders.

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