{"podcast":{"title":"Yogaland Podcast","slug":"yogaland-podcast-218319","podcast_index_feed_id":218319,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/3d745b41-3dae-4e9f-8bd0-d48ea7d90b85","website_url":"http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/61433a0ff581aa62a3520e2a/1633450578484-970649ae89b3a1880791778ca0f23753.jpeg","author":"Andrea Ferretti","episode_count":446,"summary":"This down-to-earth podcast by Andrea Ferretti (former executive editor of Yoga Journal) will keep informed and inspired to practice yoga. Topics run the gamut from nitty gritty technique (her yoga teacher husband Jason Crandell often joins to help with this) to down-to-earth conversations about how to apply yoga's lessons and tools to help craft a happy, balanced life. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yogaland . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-12T18:17:50.468775+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yogaland-podcast-218319"},"episode":{"title":"Does Yoga Build Strength? The Science Behind What Yoga Actually Does","slug":"does-yoga-build-strength-the-science-behind-what-yoga-actually-does","published_at":"2026-07-11T18:30:31+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yogaland-podcast-218319/does-yoga-build-strength-the-science-behind-what-yoga-actually-does","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yogaland-podcast-218319","url":"https://jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode392","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/yogaland/e/6a52884ce31e37bb56ce0e15/media.mp3","summary":"This week Jason and I have a conversation the yoga world has been dancing around for years: Does yoga build strength?   Jason offers an honest framework for understanding the ways that yoga builds strength — and where it genuinely falls short. What You'll Learn:   Why strength matters — particularly for longevity The two primary components of strength development and how yoga addresses each one How yoga builds neuromuscular strength, efficiency, and coordination — and why that's more valuable than most practitioners realize Why yoga will never produce hypertrophy — and what that means for long-term health, muscle mass, and metabolic function What progressive overload is and why bodyweight training alone cannot provide it Why yoga primarily recruits Type 1 fibers and almost never accesses Type 2 fibers and why it matters Why resistance training and yoga are not competing modalities — they are extraordinary partners The Iyengar yoga innovation argument: why adding resistance training tools to yoga is no different from what the greatest yoga innovators have always done Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yogaland . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"This week Jason and I have a conversation the yoga world has been dancing around for years: Does yoga build strength? Jason offers an honest framew…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2654,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/yogaland-podcast-218319/episodes/does-yoga-build-strength-the-science-behind-what-yoga-actually-does/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/yogaland-podcast-218319/does-yoga-build-strength-the-science-behind-what-yoga-actually-does.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}