Yoga with Resistance Bands and Weights
Gipe’s Yoga, with resistance band and weights classes helps maintain strong, stable posture and allows for smooth and controlled movements in your day-to-day life or your sports activity.
Combining yoga, light weights and resistance training can significantly improve your strength, your agility, flexibility, balance, coordination, and mental focus through dynamic poses, controlled slow movements, and mindfulness practices.
Yoga has major benefits for male and female fitness. Yoga is often thought of as an activity only for flexibility. But flexibility cover more than doing the splits. Flexibility trains you to adapt to a range of motions. Acclimatising one’s body to a range of motions leads to greater activation of more muscles, thus building strength which in turn will help with your activity goals.
Use weights or resistance bands or both its your choice. Gipe recognises that for some holding weights may be difficult eg arthritis, so Gipe has devised the use of resistance bands and wrist support tools to aid participants. If you would love to do the class but are worried you may not be able to due to personal limitations please contact Gipe for free 10 minute consultation.
Although you may not be or cannot imagine being as bendy as yoga masters such as B K S Iyengar just increasing your range of movements by a small increment will help you to access more muscles and so develop the balance, speed, strength, coordination and greater reflexes you wish in your day-to-day life or your sports activity.
Gipe’s Yoga, light Weights and Resistance training classes are organised around a six or seven week termly booking.
Resistance Training Reshapes the Gut Microbiome for Better Health
More reasons to attend resistance and weight training with Gipe; focusing on, slow deep training, light weights, good form and lots of variety to avoid injury and deep strength gains. Conclusion, Resistance training drives significant, time-dependent gut microbiome changes, particularly in those demonstrating greater improvements in strength. These shifts mirror endurance training effects and may reflect improved overall health.
Reference of paper posted on August 13, 2025.
Daniel Straub, Till Englert, Antonia Beller, Josua Stadelmaier, Mark Stahl, Joachim Kilian, Jens Borzym, Carola Rotermund, Tanja Akbuga-Schön, Sabrina Krakau, Stefan Czemmel, Sabine Weiler, Marc Pettenkofer, Jörg Pettenkofer, Ulli Maser, Sascha Dammeier, Andreas M. Nieß, Markus D Enderle, Sven Nahnsen
Reference paper link: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.08.13.670057
The relationship between the gut microbiome and resistance training: a rapid review
The results of this study underline the fact that resistance training could have some potential to modify the gut microbiome in terms of metabolomics. thereby reducing inflammation in the gut. Despite the review limitation and the small number of existing studies on this topic, these results provide a significant first step towards understanding the next protentional benefit of resistance training in the gut microbiome.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13102-023-00791-4
Wagner, A., Kapounková, K. & Struhár, I. The relationship between the gut microbiome and resistance training: a rapid review. BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil 16, 4 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13102-023-00791-4
How to support your gut health
Be consistent, exercise at least three times a week and mix it up. Both yoga and yoga resistance weight training combine well to improve your respiratory and gut health.
By regularly challenging your muscles, you can encourage the growth of beneficial gut bacteria, strengthen your gut lining and reduce inflammation. Over time the changes you make may help you feel; better, gain motivation, recover faster, and lower your risk of chronic diseases.