by Ruth Delahunty
Yoga expert
Ruth’s classes focus on mobility and stability to stretch and strengthen the whole body – bringing balance back physically and mentally. She is a member of the Yoga Medicine ® Therapeutic Specialist team and creator of the Yogaru, 108 Asana yoga sequencing cards.
By combining yoga with resistance training, you’re able to achieve a more balanced and well-rounded fitness routine, improving both strength and mobility over time.
Yoga is an excellent complement to resistance training for several reasons:
Muscle recovery
Yoga promotes recovery by reducing muscle tension, alleviating tightness and improving circulation.
Improves mobility and coordination
Yoga improves mobility, balance, coordination and posture awareness, which helps you lift weights with better form.
Injury prevention
Yoga increases muscle hydration, which helps prevent wear and tear injuries to muscles and joints.
Muscle activation
Yoga has a wider variety of complex movements and challenges the full body to work cohesively.
Increases endurance
Yoga builds resilience to both physical and mental challenges, which helps you meet the challenges in your training sessions.
Breath awareness
Yoga encourages breath awareness which improves your focus and mind-muscle connection during resistance training.
Stress prevention
Yoga teaches the nervous system how to dial back down and helps prevent chronic stress and inflammation.
Improves sleep
Yoga improves sleep which as we know is the gold standard of recovery and repair.
Have a dive into Ruth’s resilience focused yoga classes – live and on demand. Her classes are suitable for all levels of yoga experience. Modifications are given where applicable.
“I have never felt better since starting Ruth’s classes. I’ve noticed I’ve had less sporting injuries, I feel more flexible, stronger, and I’m even sleeping better!’”