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Five Reasons Why Crossfit & Yoga Complement Each Other

September 15, 2015 by Lucinda Staniland Leave a Comment

By Lucinda Staniland I started doing Crossfit because I wanted to get strong and build good bone density, not because I wanted to improve my Yoga practice. And I didn't think that my daily Yoga practice would help much when it came to the high-intensity strength training and cardio workouts that form the basis of Crossfit. Turns out I was wrong. The thing that surprised me most about Crossfit was not how hardcore it was, or how sore it made me, or how competitive everyone was, but rather … [Read more...]

Filed Under: What's Real Yoga & a Real Yogi?, Yoga in the Media Tagged With: cross training, Crossfit, flexibility, meditation, muscles, muscular system, Squats

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