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Improved Recovery After a strenuous workout, lactic acid builds up in our muscles, leading to stiffness, discomfort, and in some cases, delayed onset muscle soreness. Incorporating yoga into your exercise routine will increase blood flow to your muscles, pushing nutrients to the cells in your muscles to repair small tears in the tissue from a workout, leading to a faster recovery.
of injury while performing other exercises. According to a WebMD study, after eight weeks of yoga, participants increased their flexibility by up to 35% — that’s a vast improvement! Improved Breathing While working out, the way you breathe makes a difference. For lifting weights, breathing out as you lift and breathing in as you release or lower the weight is recommended. While running or performing cardio, breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth is a way to keep your breathing rhythmic. Yoga
Whether you incorporate yoga into your workout routine on an active day or set aside an entire day for it, you will notice some improvements in no time!
teaches you how to breathe in a controlled manner through strenuous exercises, which can be applied to all physical activities. Decreased Chance of Injury When exercising, twisted ankles, shin splints, torn ligaments, and sore muscles happen. However, yoga helps strengthen a wide range of ligaments, muscles, and tendons (including some you likely didn’t even know you had). Keeping all of your muscles limber and strong is imperative to lessening your chances of getting hurt while running, playing a sport, or lifting weights. Not to mention, the increased range of motion and flexibility helps your balance.
A Game With 60 Years of Progress When Did Fantasy Sports Become So Popular?
Fantasy sports continue to grow in popularity every year. It’s rare to meet someone who has never heard of or played in a fantasy sports league. For those unfamiliar, fantasy sports are games where participants build imaginary teams using real-life players. Scores are generated on individual performances from players on your team, so if Tom Brady is on your fantasy team and throws a touchdown in real life, your team also earns points. While it might seem like fantasy sports are a product of the internet, their history actually spans over five decades. Fantasy sports began in 1962 when Wilfred Winkenbach and other members of the Oakland Raiders organization created the initial rules for what would eventually develop into fantasy football. In 1963, the Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League held the first fantasy football draft; George Blanda was the first pick. Six years later, the first public fantasy football league opened to Kings X Sports Bar patrons in Oakland. 1980 saw the beginning of fantasy baseball and the Rotisserie scoring system still used today in fantasy baseball, hockey, and basketball. The following year, the MLB went on strike, which caused many sports journalists to write about fantasy baseball in its place, catapulting its popularity. By 1989, over a million people were playing fantasy football. Then the internet became mainstream, allowing even more people to familiarize themselves with fantasy sports.
Yahoo launched the first free-to-play fantasy sports platform in 1999, giving more people the opportunity to join a league and learn how to play. ESPN and other sites soon followed suit; by 2006, more than 12 million people were playing fantasy football. When Facebook and Twitter launched in the early 2000s, people had more platforms to share their opinions, which helped the industry grow. In 2009, FanDuel launched a pay-to-play daily fantasy sports platform that allowed fans to choose players for a specific day or game and place a bet on their lineup. Now, 59 million fantasy sports players participate across the globe, and that number continues to grow. The current global fantasy sports market is estimated to be worth around $22.3 billion and is predicted to rise to $38.6 billion by 2025. If you haven’t played fantasy sports before, now is the time to start. You may just discover a new favorite hobby.
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