Yoga is said to be helpful for cyclists. It helps improve posture. It helps to stretch out muscles when they\’ve become stiff through many miles in the saddle. Thus yoga improves our flexibility, making those long miles more comfortable. Yoga can even help with injury prevention.

Here are seven yoga moves for cyclists. Each one is designed to target specific areas of the body, and either work muscles in a manner that is opposite to the way they\’re used while riding; or, to strengthen those muscles so that they work better while cycling.

Yoga is also known for both improving mental focus and calming the mind, like viewing a landscape such as the one at left. I don\’t suppose that many of us have such a view before our doorsteps; and how many of us can afford to travel to such beauty spots on a whim? Yoga, I suppose, might be called a passport to such tranquility.

I have yet to try yoga. I don\’t want to go to a yoga studio only to be driven out by others\’ \”fragrances\”. Even if it weren\’t for that, the stress of trying to fit yoga sessions in around everything else would undo any benefits I got from the yoga!