Can You Use Yoga to Improve Your Athletic Performance?

Are you ready for something a little different? This article is a full transcript of a conversation I had about yoga and how we can use it in specific ways to aid our athletic performance. For the audio version of this interview (which I strongly encourage you to listen to), I was not locked in my little closet in my own studio at home like I usually am, I was actually in Whistler, British Columbia "on location" with my dear friend, Abi Carver, of Yoga15.

You long-time readers have undoubtedly encountered links in my past articles and past podcasts where I've highlighted Abi's videos and posts. But for this one, she is here in person, not across Skype, not across the internet, but right across the table from me. So here we go!

Brock: Abi, how are you?

Abi: I am great. How're you doing?

Brock: I'm good. We just went for a lovely walk around Lost Lake, and we didn't get lost this time.

Abi: No, not this time!

Brock: It's in the name of the lake, so you'd think that would be inevitable, but we didn't get lost. And we made our way back here to talk about yoga and whether or not—what I'm going to say anyway—is whether yoga is all created equally or are these different brands of yoga actually that different? And are they actually targeting different sort of activities, and different parts of our body, different parts of our nervous system, even? And, the biggest question, because I know you do a lot of yoga specifically for cyclists, can we use yoga to target specific purposes and to really elicit specific results from our bodies and from our performance? So, that's the big ask. But let's break it down a little bit.

But first, before we dive into it, could you just fill in the audience on your background as a ... as a yoga influencer, shall we say?

Abi: I'd like to say I was influential, but I think I can only really count as a teacher. I have an online business, which is called yoga15.com, which is designed specifically for athletes. It's called Yoga15...

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