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Would 'Yogalospohy' by Mandy Ingber count as strength training?

NakeshiaBeard
NakeshiaBeard Posts: 83
in Fitness and Exercise
I've recently purchased 'Yogalospohy' by Mandy Ingber (DVD and book set) and was wondering if the sequence would count as strength training as a lot of the moves use body resistance? I'm only just starting up with strength training again after a 4 month break and I'm not entirely comfortable jumping right in with heavy weights right away, so I'm sticking to body weight training for the first few weeks.

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  • Mr_Excitement
    Mr_Excitement Posts: 833 Member
    Is it Ashtanga yoga? I've never done the one you mentioned there specifically, but I've done plenty of Ashtanga routines that I'd be comfortable calling weight training. That *kitten* is hard. :p
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    I think it would be a bit of a reach to call it strength training. Will you get stronger to a degree? Yes, but that's true regarding just about any form of exercise. To me, strength training requires progressive resistance increases over a large period of time at the very least.
  • NakeshiaBeard
    NakeshiaBeard Posts: 83
    DopeItUp wrote: »
    I think it would be a bit of a reach to call it strength training. Will you get stronger to a degree? Yes, but that's true regarding just about any form of exercise. To me, strength training requires progressive resistance increases over a large period of time at the very least.

    So body weight resistance isn't classed as strength training? Personally I can barely do one push up, so right now I could not add any more resistance to such exercises.
  • SpecialSundae
    SpecialSundae Posts: 795 Member
    Progressive bodyweight resistance is strength training. Yoga is only progressive to a point and that point will be reached quickly.

    Don't get me wrong, I love yoga but it isn't the same as strength training (much as strength training isn't yoga).
  • NakeshiaBeard
    NakeshiaBeard Posts: 83
    SpecialSundae wrote: »
    Progressive bodyweight resistance is strength training. Yoga is only progressive to a point and that point will be reached quickly.

    Don't get me wrong, I love yoga but it isn't the same as strength training (much as strength training isn't yoga).

    This is yoga combined with body weight resistance (planks, pushups, lunges, tricep dips etc) :-)
  • SpecialSundae
    SpecialSundae Posts: 795 Member
    NakeshiaBeard wrote: »
    SpecialSundae wrote: »
    Progressive bodyweight resistance is strength training. Yoga is only progressive to a point and that point will be reached quickly.

    Don't get me wrong, I love yoga but it isn't the same as strength training (much as strength training isn't yoga).

    This is yoga combined with body weight resistance (planks, pushups, lunges, tricep dips etc) :-)

    Yoga generally includes those in some shape or form. Unless you're continually moving to harder and harder variations, it isn't going to increase your strength for long.

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