Here’s a suggestion from FortNine that is sure to spark some back-and-forth: Along with the strength workouts for your shoulders and lower body that the YouTube channel previously recommended, we now see them with a personal trainer suggesting… yoga poses for life on the road.

Now, it might not sound super-macho to be yoga-stretching your way through a dual sport camping trip. But I will say that one of the most experienced riders I ever met was a firm believer in doing just this. We had a yoga studio next to the office and he was always doing a lesson and getting limbered up, and he was also a firm believer in this sort of thing before long days in the saddle, or track-day sessions. If you’re around serious motorcyclists for long enough, you’ll almost always find someone else who does the same, although they’re usually an outlier.

My own stiff-and-sore days in the saddle have mostly disappeared, and I’ve usually taken the approach that “The best way to get in shape for days in the saddle is to spend days in the saddle.” If you read this older thread on the forum, you’ll see other guys saying the same thing. But is it true?

The reality is that you can target specific muscle groups that are problematic—in my case, my shoulders still feel stiff if I wear a moto-backpack all day. And off-the-bike training is something we can do even on days we can’t ride. So, train your muscles with strength conditioning on the days off, like FortNine’s first video, and then stretch your muscles for all-day usability on the days you’re actually riding? That seems to be what they’re trying to tell us.

But what works for you?

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