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How much strength does yoga really build?

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Yoga Is Much Better at Building Isometric Strength

Yoga is much better at building isometric strength relatively than concentric and eccentric. In plank pose, your muscles are working or really hard. They're pulling a lot to resist motion. What motion are they resisting? The downward push of gravity. And we said that muscles pull for two primary reasons to move a body part or to resist the movement of a body part.

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