280: Mobility Training
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2017
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
There are two types of people who say that flexibility doesn't matter. The first group is stiff as a board and want an excuse for their lack of mobility. The second group consists of people who have always been flexible, the dancers and gymnasts who flop into the splits like it's nothing.
For the rest of us, flexibility absolutely matters. It impacts our posture, our walking and running gates, and even our potential for injury.
On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll meet a yoga teacher working with professional athletes to improve their mobility—and the stakes couldn't be higher. These are people whose body is their business. They need to train hard, recover fast, and injury prevention is a top priority.
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Listen & Learn:
- How mobility training gets integrated into professional sports training
- How yoga teachers can add value to athletes, adapting their teaching and language to meet students where they're at
- Why flexibility training should be done after (not before) strength or conditioning
- How flexibility training can temporarily reduce power and joint stability, but why that doesn't mean you should avoid it
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Dana Santas, also known as the "Mobility Maker," is a mind-body coach for professional sports teams. She is the yoga expert for CNN Health, and an international speaker helping people breathe, move and feel better.
Dana is currently the yoga, mobility & breathing coach for the Orlando Magic, Tampa Bay Rays, Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Texans, Tampa Bay Lightning & World Wrestling Entertainment.
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| 0:00.0 | The studios, the environments, are beautiful spaces, and the group quickly came together. |
| 0:07.8 | What I also liked was from day one, we were up in front of our classmates teaching. |
| 0:13.5 | Very quickly you're going through that discomfort and challenge. |
| 0:17.6 | It's a tough schedule. |
| 0:19.1 | You start at 7.30 in the morning and you go until non-stop yoga yoga and all the |
| 0:26.7 | knowledge that goes behind it until 10 o'clock at night. But the guys make it |
| 0:31.6 | easy. The environment is really supportive. |
| 0:34.0 | I've really enjoyed this week. I really value the level of teaching and the |
| 0:41.7 | understanding of the postures. |
| 0:44.0 | Your practice is your own practice, but you know, when you get to share it with somebody and share your energy with the group, it makes it that much better. |
| 0:53.0 | A lot of it is just a confidence. |
| 0:55.0 | I'm really confident in what yoga body has to offer. |
| 1:00.0 | I just feel really good about it. I see lots of good things coming and just lots of good |
| 1:03.0 | lots of positivity right now. |
| 1:05.0 | For future participants I say prepare for a good time. |
| 1:09.0 | Get your rest, practice your yoga before you come, read your books and prepare for so many |
| 1:18.2 | opportunities and so much excitement. |
| 1:20.7 | It's amazing. |
| 1:28.0 | To learn more about the Yoga Teachers College, please visit Yoga Teachers College. |
| 1:30.0 | We're now accepting applications for our next intake. |
| 1:33.0 | In recent years, there has been a weird trend where |
| 1:41.0 | strength and conditioning people, cross-fitters, even some yoga people have been promoting this idea that stretching doesn't work. |
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