The Runner's Guide to Yoga Author: Rountree Sage | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BWGX0CG | Format: PDF
The Runner's Guide to Yoga Description
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
- File Size: 5088 KB
- Print Length: 212 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1934030848
- Publisher: VeloPress (April 1, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BWGX0CG
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #206,909 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
I'm surprised, with the high sales ranking on this book, that I am the first review! But glad to do it as I like this book a lot. It's full of very good information for yogis who run at all stages, and for runners who want to do yoga. I have done yoga for 2 years, and wanted to start running.
I think doing yoga helped my beginning running efforts succeed, but I did start having some minor issues after 2 weeks and so I bought this book (and a new pair of running shoes) and I did the warm up the other day, about 30 min before going out for my run, and everything was so much easier. Will use the after-running stretches for after-gardening and other activity as well. Generally, well written, well-illustrated, and very practical reference that addresses most topics the every day yogi-runner will need to know.
By Readsalot
This book is intended for runners who don't do yoga, or who are VERY new to yoga. I'm a runner, and also an intermediate/experienced yogi, and this book didn't tell me anything I don't already know. I'd say you're better off spending the money to take a couple yoga classes, and learning how to properly do the poses. That will teach you much better (and in a safe environment with an instructor where your risk of injury/overstretching is reduced) what poses will help stretch your thight spots.
By Cultural Groupie
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