There's lots of ways to be fit, I just think OP is trying to say you can't put all your eggs in one bucket and expect all the benefits to come to you.

I even said stretching, manipulations, and massage have their own merits.

These are all used to change the body, but strengthening is the long term change.

Best practice is to do stretching, manipulations, massage before the strengthening.

But these are my Engineering summary, you can get treatment from a doctor of Physical Therapy that does this as a job.

If your instructor is having you do low rep, weighted exercises, it does hypertrophy and would improve that muscle.

Yoga is a generic term.

Then you should have just said "stretching".

Yoga is a generic term.

So is "strength training", but it's not so generic that I get to just make shit up.

You are more like doing endurance training which make cells for ADP/ATP.

And you likely aren't doing it like a perscription where they target the weaknesses. Rather general.

In the context of the original post, it is clear why I mentioned yoga in that list.

Read the context

There's also a lot of power yoga poses where you do the equivalent of weightless exercises.

When I first came out of college, I had incredible knee pain when sitting for longer period. I couldn't go to class without taking motrin or something stronger depending on the day. I worked out, played sports etc, was very active, and felt no pain when doing those activities but something in my body was out of whack/alignment. I saw a few specialists, did an MRI and they couldn't find an obvious cause. My only option that route was getting cut open and maybe finding something that wasn't being picked up (which knee surgery is a miserable recovery). I started doing PT where I was told my hamstrings were like old rubberbands. So I started stretching but it wasn't progressing. I ended up seeing a rolfing masseuse once a month. Things progressed slowly. I got to a point where seeing a trainer was a good option. Eventually the kneed pain vanished but was in my back. More work and direction and the pain was gone. It took two+ years of dedication but it was worth every penny.

I'm sharing this because I understand how desperate people can feel with pain management and how confusing everything can be. My point is plenty of the information is total bullshit, but if you put the energy and money in, you can find the right team and try a few different things, you can get better. I would have never believe in the actual effects of rolfing if I never tried it. You don't have to live with the pain, try to keep working and don't ever give up on it.

The improvements you expext from a weight training program are going from lifting 40kg off the floor to 140kg+ off the floor. So a strength trainer will disagree that Yoga helps because of course the magnitude of gain is just not in the same ballpark as a strength training program expects. You would be better off sticking to good fundamental strength training if that was your goal.

https://annals.org/aim/article-abstract/2633222/yoga-physica...

I think what it did was to reset my hypersensitive pain threshold back to normal, but I don't have any science to back that up. It was intensely uncomfortable (bringing me close to tears after a couple minutes) at first but then I adjusted to it.

The first thing a good strength coach will do is figure out your current range of motion and address how that's affecting your major lifts.

Moreso, poor flexibility can lead to injury and long term imbalances if you don't get them sorted before making big gains in strength. Like building on a lopsided foundation.

Have you ever noticed all these buff dudes at the gym who look like goblins ? Well, that's because they don't stretch and focus on pecs / shoulders / arms, combine that with an office job and you'll do more harm than good

When I asked what the most common thing people came to him with, he immediately said, "Yoga. I started out in a clinic down in the West Village across the street from a yoga studio, most of my clients were men who hurt their backs or their necks doing yoga positions."