McLeish: Agbonlahor should look to yoga to avoid injury

The England striker is well known for his electric pace but has suffered series of niggling injuries in the past, something which his manager McLeish believes he could eliminate with the aid of yoga."There are one or two players who do the yoga here,” said McLeish.“I don’t know if he will take that on board as well. It is something we will be talking about with the doctor and the fitness coach, whether he is going to embark on the yoga as well.“Towards the end of my playing days it was starting to filter in. There were all sorts of different tools starting to come into the game. Now players have virtually everything.”McLeish singled out Giggs as a prime example of a player who has adapted to using yoga in an attempt to cut out a series of stresses and strains that had started to blight his game.He continued: "I think they only need to look at the Ryan Giggs example,”“If you are embarrassed about it or not sure and then you see a figurehead like Giggs doing it. I’m sure that has inspired a lot of young players.“Gabby is an athlete, built for speed, and these are injuries that happen. I think if you look at Giggs flying down the wings in his young days he had a lot of hamstring problems.“I remember reading quotes that he had to modify his game as he got older, which he has done superbly.“He is still going, he’s been superb, he also worked with a yoga teacher. That helped him in his preventative measures in terms of injury. He had to modify his action."The under-fire Villa manager is keen for Agbonlahor to utilise his pace to full effect still, though, and sees the discipline as merely a preventative measure rather than a cure.He added: “That’s not applicable to Gabby yet. He still has the speed to burn, not modify yet, but he will have to do some preventative work"It’s just getting Gabby on a programme and hoping we can prevent injuries and keep him fit as long as we can because he was a boy in great form at the beginning of the season."