The Best Strength Training to Complement Your Yoga Practice
Yoga and strength training don't have to compete for space in your routine.
In fact, they can work beautifully together.
Yoga can develop mobility, balance, body awareness, breath, and control. Resistance training adds progressive muscular challenge, giving you another way to develop strength and stability.
Together, they can create a well-rounded movement practice.
Why Yogis Benefit From Resistance Training
A consistent yoga practice can make you incredibly capable with your own body weight.
But adding external resistance gives your muscles a different challenge.
Resistance training can help you develop additional strength through your legs, glutes, core, upper body, and the stabilizing muscles that support movement.
That strength can complement what you're already building on your mat.
Familiar Principles, Different Challenge
This connection is especially important to us because Structure was born from the team behind Yoga Pod.
After more than 16 years in Boulder County's yoga and wellness community, we didn't want to abandon the things we valued about mindful movement when creating Structure.
Instead, we wanted to build on them.
You'll find familiar ideas here: intentional movement, body awareness, expert instruction, proper form, control, and connection.
The difference is the training stimulus.
The XFormer and resistance-based programming allow us to challenge your muscles in an entirely different way.
You Don't Have to Choose
Your ideal movement routine doesn't have to fit neatly into one category.
Yoga can be part of it.
Strength training can be part of it.
Hiking, cycling, skiing, running, walking, and whatever else makes you feel good can be part of it too.
Structure is designed to help build the strength that supports all of it.
Add Strength to Your Practice
If you're already part of the yoga community in Boulder or Longmont, Structure can be a natural complement to the movement practice you already love.
Start with Foundations, learn the XFormer, and discover what slow resistance training adds to your routine.
