What's the difference between yoga and sports?

What's the difference between yoga and sports?

Different behavior:  yoga abandons the consciousness of competition, needs to calm the body and mind, comprehensively increase the body's tolerance and control, and pay more attention to their own cultivation. Sports have a strong competitiveness, such as the Olympic Games to promote the spirit of faster, higher, stronger, can cultivate people's hard work and efforts as well as tacit team spirit of cooperation.

The purpose of the practice is different:  yoga makes people calm, healthy and elegant, physical and mental balance, and focuses on spiritual practice. Sports make people dynamic, strong, focused on winning and losing.

Different techniques are used:  yoga guides eight breaths, mainly to stretch and relax the muscles, and the body is in a static state. Sports mainly contract the muscles and put the body in a competitive dynamic.

Physical changes are different:  yoga can improve the strength of muscles, bones and the toughness of ligaments and tendons, enhance the body's tolerance and sense of control, strengthen the body's internal organs, glands, nervous system, mainly endurance based red muscle group plays a role, can balance energy, is an adjustment process, make the body and mind full of vitality, energetic, relieve physical and mental fatigue. Sports enhance muscle strength and speed, strengthen the cardiovascular system, mainly explosive white muscle group plays a role, is a consumptive process, after exercise will feel tired need to rest and recovery.