Help a brother out! Climbing and yoga research.

Hey y'all. I'm starting up a new company to help climbers develop a holistic approach to training and climbing. I'm doing a little market research and would be stoked if you took a minute or two to fill out the survey below. Much love. Finished. Thanks!

I don't think yoga benefited my climbing. I think i actually had a mildly detrimental effect. The way you ask your question on this survey are biased in that you can only say good things about yoga.

This isn't a survey or "research", it's fishing for emails for direct marketing.

Yes, Matt, I'd be curious to hear how it was detrimental to climbing as well. I'm not a yoga buff myself, but it's hard to imagine how any practice with core strength, balance, flexibility and mental focus would hurt. Torn cartilage or something?

Good luck with your sales pitch.

First, I have to say that I really like yoga. There is some value to it, including increased core strength and flexibility. I have practiced for few years off and on. I naturally have good flexibility so i didn't view increased flexibility as a real gain as i think most climbers do.

In addition, I found that yoga uses a lot of the same muscles that yoga uses, so doing both on the same day will reduce your performance in both activities. Using the same muscle groups also prevents yoga from beings a good 'rest day' activity. I think a really great way to develop an elbow overuse injury is to yoga on your rest days( I have personal experience with this.)

In general, the types of yoga I was doing (ashtanga based yoga), did not do a very good job of working antagonist muscles and was not very good cardio.
I ended up replacing yoga with running, light stretching, specific antagonist muscle exercises.

I see. That makes more sense now. Thanks for the response.

i played college football, offensive center, for a yr and did lots of damage to body through heavy weight lifting and practice. I find bikram yoga to be quite beneficial to my climbing, only to a certain level though. it makes all the easy moves, that much easier. but a credit card crimp is still a credit card crimp and yoga doesnt help that burning sensation go away in your finger tips. thats where balancing the two comes into play, I find it hard to do both on the same day and typically need 1-2 rest days per wk to prevent overuse injury. I started taking classes May of this yr and climbing since 2011. as a current weekend warrior i like to climb in the gym once during the week, take 2 bikram classes during the week and try really hard outside on the weekends.

Ive been thinking about trying yoga to benefit climbing as well. I follow a page on FB: "Conquer the Crux" that focuses on yoga/climbing and the holistic approach. Besides core, flexability and vestibular(that's balance) stabilization, what other benefits can it bring?

My other training is crossfit, olympic weightlifting, swimming, gym climbing and my hangboard. I'm very fit and flexible, so I can't quite see how yoga can benefit me as a climber as far as "strength" and coordination goes. I'm certainly not opposed to it, just "dont get it"

D-Storm wrote:Yes, Matt, I'd be curious to hear how it was detrimental to climbing as well. I'm not a yoga buff myself, but it's hard to imagine how any practice with core strength, balance, flexibility and mental focus would hurt. Torn cartilage or something?