Yoga Meditation Benefits Many Olympic Athletes

There are many ways in which yoga meditation benefits the 2012 Olympic athletes. Whether it's to enhance their performance, recover from injury more quickly, or even to mentally prepare themselves, yoga and meditation are some of the best ways for all athletes to operate at their peak performance level. Here is an article by Emily Haglund-McMillan writing for OrcaHealth.Com that helps to illustrate how useful yoga and meditation together can be for this or any athlete.

Yoga Meditation Benefits Many Olympic Athletes

Yoga meditation benefits many Olympians. Photo by OSTILL c/o Photos.Com.

Olympic athletes often seek ways to give their aching bodies and tired minds relief from their rigorous training efforts. Yoga gives them exactly what they are looking for and more.
Yoga has innumerable benefits for all types of bodies and activity levels. For Olympians, the benefits not only help them recover from their sport, but will also enhance their athletic performance.

Read about all the ways athletes benefit here at healthdecide.orcahealth.com:

There are many yoga meditation benefits for world class athletes, so why not for you too? If the power of yoga and meditation can help to make someone who is at the world class level of athletics even better, imagine what it can help you accomplish.

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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 unequaled.                                                          --  Kareem Abdul Jabbar