[lm28469]

> The muscle "shock" broscience has been disproven many times:

Variety isn't to shock or confuse the body, it's just to make sure you actually hit all the muscles in as many ways possible. Take your average push/pull gym rat to a yoga class or a climbing wall and they'll be more sore the next day than they've ever been before, because they'll activate muscles they didn't even know they had.

[oarfish]

Yes, because the stimulus is novel if youve never done yoga before (e.g. a bunch of isometrics). That is not an indication of it being useful exercise for the outcomes of interest.

[lm28469]

Yes of course, but I assume people on hn are more health focused than big muscles focused

[oarfish]

In many ways those are the same thing up to a point. Although strength is probably more predictive of health than muscle size.