Les bienfaits du yoga sur la course à pied

The benefits of yoga for running

La Cordée

September 9, 2025

6 minutes

The aerobic activities practiced regularly provide many benefits on cardiovascular health: prevention of diabetes, reduction in the risk of developing several cancers, etc. However, the repetitive movements related to the practice of certain activities such as running or bicycle are likely to cause certain musculo-tendinous and bone imbalances.

It is very good to be able to run a marathon, but it is useless to go as far as getting up in pain in the morning, unable to look to launch your shoes! A healthy body is synonymous with a body that finds its balance between flexibility, endurance, strength and good cardiopulmonary capacity. Yoga can help you reach this equilibrium. Here are the specific advantages of yoga for the endurance sportsman.

Yoga improves general health, vitality and ability to recover

Yoga is indeed very effective in improving health and general vitality. The mechanisms set in motion during this activity are multiple and they reduce stress, to promote a state of calm as well as a restful sleep. Yoga also improves your quantum of energy and facilitates recovery between your training. All of these advantages improve your gains connected to training and accelerates by the very fact your recovery after a sports competition.

Yoga improves your musculo-tendine balance

First of all, you should know that the cardiovascular system adapts more quickly than tendon structures. Little vascularized, the latter weaken with age. Repetitive sports, which involve strong ground impacts such as running on the road, weaken the athlete, and particularly the aging sportsman (or mature ...). To give more lightness to your movements and reach a good balance between your strength and flexibility, you can turn to yoga. In addition to soliciting and involving certain muscular muscles and groups that are too often overlooked in sports that require repeated movements in the antero-posterior axis, yoga makes it possible to restore muscle imbalances.

thus, you will develop a weapon of the most powerful against prevention of overuse injuries. For example, by strengthening the deep muscles of the abdomen like psoas, you will prevent low back pain. Also, by stretching the group of posterior muscles of the thigh (Hamstring) associated with the strengthening of the vast internal of the quadriceps, you will prevent knee wounds, Achille tendon as well as injuries typically long to restore like the tendinitis of the ili-tibial strip and the plantar fascist.

Yoga, an excellent cross-training activity

At the start of the practice, just practice yoga two to three times a week. Then increase your practice to five times a week to increase your profits. Note that a regular practice, lasting between twenty and thirty minutes, is sufficient to feel the benefits of yoga.

In addition, unlike intense training in the evening, the practice of yoga before bedtime facilitates sleep. But be careful not to exaggerate the stretching movements, because certain physical injuries are also linked to the too intense and too voluntary practice of yoga

to take advantage of all the advantages of this Zen activity, is it necessary to practice it in a group? Of course the group effect is an excellent stimulant, but the practice of yoga in the comfort of your home, guided by excellent websites or detailed books, does the business very well if you are a busy sportsman.