{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/3d745b41-3dae-4e9f-8bd0-d48ea7d90b85/6a52884ce31e37bb56ce0e15?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Does Yoga Build Strength? The Science Behind What Yoga Actually Does","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61433a0ff581aa62a3520e2a/1783793671444-4e4d663d-4756-432d-9e13-fa97a7e84fb5.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>This week Jason and I have a conversation the yoga world has been dancing around for years: <strong>Does yoga build strength?</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Jason offers an honest framework for understanding the ways that yoga builds strength — and where it genuinely falls short. </p><p><br></p><p>What You'll Learn:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Why strength matters — particularly for longevity </li><li>The two primary components of strength development and how yoga addresses each one</li><li>How yoga builds neuromuscular strength, efficiency, and coordination — and why that's more valuable than most practitioners realize</li><li>Why yoga will never produce hypertrophy — and what that means for long-term health, muscle mass, and metabolic function</li><li>What progressive overload is and why bodyweight training alone cannot provide it</li><li>Why yoga primarily recruits Type 1 fibers and almost never accesses Type 2 fibers and why it matters</li><li>Why resistance training and yoga are not competing modalities — they are extraordinary partners</li><li>The Iyengar yoga innovation argument: why adding resistance training tools to yoga is no different from what the greatest yoga innovators have always done</li></ul><p><br></p>","author_name":"Andrea Ferretti"}