Pro Linebacker Ray Lewis Hearts Yoga

How exactly does a 6-foot, 250-pound brash, intimidating football player take to a yoga practice? Passionately. Baltimore Ravens Superstar Ray Lewis, whose main job is aggressively tackling anyone carrying a football, credits yoga with helping him achieve better flexibility after surgeries in 2005 and 2006. ''I would recommend [yoga] to all the linebackers,'' Lewis recently told The Chicago Sun-Times.

It's well-documented these days that athletes often choose to practice yoga in addition to their regular training. But for pro football players, who take such a beating every week during the fall, the benefits of yoga go well beyond getting a good stretch. Yoga can help them with conditioning going into the postseason -- and keep them moving long after their careers are through. So athletes, break out that yoga mat!