The Runner's Guide to Yoga: A Practical Approach to Building Strength and Flexibility for Better Running
Author(s): ROWNTREE, SAGE
Yoga will make you a better runner. Millions of runners practice yoga daily because it cuts injuries and leads to more fluid, enjoyable running. In The Runner's Guide to Yoga, Sage Rountree'America's leading expert on yoga for athletes'shows you the poses and practices for stronger, healthier running. Filled with color photographs, clear instruction, and easy-to-follow routines, The Runner's Guide to Yoga offers simple ways to make yoga a part of your everyday training, even if you have never set foot in a yoga studio. This practical guide highlights the routines that ease tightness in the hamstrings and hips, strengthen the core, build strength and flexibility throughout your body, and speed recovery from minor injuries. Rountree highlights over 100 key poses modeled by real runners and includes focused routines as well as key pre- and post-race yoga sequences. The Runner's Guide to Yoga will complement your running every day, all season long.
Discover how yoga can improve your running with Dynamic warm-ups and cooldowns for your workouts; Poses that target typical trouble spots, such as hips, calves, and hamstrings; Self-tests to determine areas of weakness or imbalance; Breath and meditation exercises to sharpen mental focus.
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Sage Rountree is a Yoga Alliance Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher and holds coaching certifications from the Road Runner s Club of America and USA Triathlon. Rountree is a faculty member of the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and is co-owner of Carrboro Yoga Company. Her popular yoga classes draw all levels of athletes from fitness walkers to Ironman(r) triathletes and Olympians.An accomplished age-group triathlete and runner, she has been a member of the Power Bar Team Elite since 2008. She is a regular contributor to "Runner s World," "Yoga Journal," "Triathlete," "USA Triathlon," and "Competitor" magazines. Rountree is author of "The Athlete s Guide to Yoga," "The Athlete s Pocket Guide to Yoga," and "The Athlete s Guide to Recovery." For more information, please visit sagerountree.com."
General Fields
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- : VeloPress
- : VeloPress
- : 0.649
- : 26 March 2012
- : 235mm X 187mm X 16mm
- : United States
- : books
Special Fields
- : ROWNTREE, SAGE
- : Paperback
- : 1205
- : 613.7046
- : 240
- : full colour photographs throughout
