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spageddy_lee t1_j6ofnga wrote

Eh, there's not a lot of science that supports this.

I think yoga is great. I practiced fairly religiously for about six years. Since then I have been weight training (heavy) only. I never stretch anymore. I don't feel like I am in better or worse shape than when I was doing yoga. Its just different, not better or worse.

I do know that with either I feel much better than if I was doing nothing.

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SpitefulJealousThrow t1_j6om8al wrote

This post isn't scientific. You started a different exercise system after cultivating the gains of an intensive, 6 year long flexibility program. One of the major limiting factors for lots of weight lifters is lack of flexibility, and a huge part of why people stop weight training is joint problems, which stretching helps with.

It would be like if a power lifter began running triathlons alone and claimed that their enormous tree trunk legs from 5 years of dead lifting had no bearing on their times.

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