Cycling and Yoga – A Match Least Expected
March 29, 2019
Alivia Chenoweth- Marketing Employee
This Saturday, we will be having our first ever 2.5 hour Cycling and Yoga Workshop! Instructor Morgan Staub will be leading this workshop, incorporating a full Cycling and Yoga Class. Normally, one would not pair these two activities together as one is fully aerobic and the other is more focused on muscular activity. However, there are many benefits to actively participating in both and here’s why this workshop is extremely beneficial for your body.
- Yoga helps you create a body that is pain free
- Cycling is about having your body in a linear motion where yoga is about twisting
- Cycling uses “big” muscle and your sympathetic nervous system and yoga uses “small” muscle and your parasympathetic system
- It helps soothe and stretch your muscles
- Yoga calms your mind and washes away stress
- There is improvement of core stability, strength, and lung capacity and endurance
If you are new to the world of cycling or yoga or both, don’t let this workshop scare you away. Morgan always makes sure to emphasize that you can go at your own pace. Someone’s workout may be different than yours and as long as you are pushing yourself to the hardest you can go, that’s what counts.
If you wish to pursue taking Yoga and Cycling classes, Rec Centers offers a wide-variety of Group Ex Classes to the student body for free every day! From Lunch Time Yoga to Late Night Cycle, we’ve got you covered.