Kareem Abdul-Jabar is hot for yoga

By John Morgan, Spotlight Health with medical adviser Stephen A. Shoop, M.D.



USA Today September 26, 2003 Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar may be best known for his indefensible sky hook. But the Hall of Fame center believes his secret weapon was really yoga.

"I believe that yoga is one of the reasons that I was able to play as long and as healthy as I did," Abdul-Jabbar says. "Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get."

But Abdul-Jabbar wasn't always injury-free. "For me I noticed improvement in my posture - that was key for me because I had been having lower back problems," Abdul-Jabbar states. "After I started doing yoga positions - asanas - all that changed. My health greatly improved overall." [...]

"We need something other than just operations and drugs and pills," says Choudhury, who founded the Yoga College of India. "Quincy Jones had a malignant tumor. They said if he survived he would never walk again. Well, he is still alive and walking because of yoga. Yoga can do this."

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