The Athlete's Guide to Yoga: An Integrated Approach to Strength, Flexibility & Focus - Softcover

Rountree, Sage

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193403004X ISBN 13: 9781934030042

Publisher: VeloPress, 2008

Synopsis

Yoga makes good athletes better. This time-honored discipline imparts flexibility, balance, and whole-body strength, creating improvements in an athlete's form, efficiency, and power. In addition, yoga's attention to concentration and breath awareness improves mental focus and mental endurance--hidden assets that become especially important at the end of a long training session or race. In The Athlete's Guide to Yoga, yoga instructor, endurance athlete, and coach Sage Rountree explains the benefits that yoga can bring to every training program. With hundreds of color photographs featuring more than 100 poses, this book treats common problem areas to make athletes stronger in their sport. Rountree helps athletes see progress from just 10 minutes of yoga each day. In an engaging and easy-to-follow style, The Athlete's Guide to Yoga presents:

• warm-up and cool-down routines for workouts
• simple poses to specifically target areas of inflexibility and overuse
• breath and meditation exercises
• different types of yoga for each phase of training
• recommendations for intensity and volume of yoga workouts throughout the training year

Rountree's applications for training and racing ease the introduction to yoga, making it practical and accessible for all athletes.

About this title

About the Author

Sage Rountree is America's leading expert on yoga for athletes. She is a certified endurance sports coach as well as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance. She is a featured instructor at Kripalu and offers yoga workshops for athletes and coaches around the country as well as at Carolina Yoga Company, a yoga studio she co-owns.

An accomplished competitor in running and triathlon, Sage has raced distances from sprint triathlon to Ironman ®, 400 meters to 40 miles, including the Boston Marathon and the 2008 Short-Course Age-Group World Championship in Vancouver, Canada, where she represented the U.S. as a member of Team USA.

Sage is a frequent contributor to Runner's World, Triathlete, Competitor, and Yoga Journal magazines and has contributed to USA Triathlon Life, VeloNews, Running Times, Inside Triathlon, and Endurance magazines. Sage is the author of The Athlete's Guide to Yoga, The Runner's Guide to Yoga, The Athlete's Pocket Guide to Yoga, and The Athlete's Guide to Recovery.

From the Back Cover

Yoga makes good athletes better. This time-honored discipline will bring you flexibility, balance, and whole body strength, leading to better form, efficiency, and power in your sport. Yogas emphasis on concentration and breath awareness also improves focus and mental endurance, giving you a true advantage at the end of a long race or training session.

The Athletes Guide to Yoga features hundreds of color photographs of more than 100 poses that address your areas of overuse and inflexibility. Sage Rountrees thoughtful instruction shows simple solutions for challenging poses so that you can realize yogas proven benefits right from the start.

Rountree makes it easy to incorporate yoga into regular training. She provides sample training plans designed for specific sports and tailors yoga routines to your existing training plan. Take just 10 minutes following a long run, do 30 minutes of stretching and relaxation a few times each week, or work in an hour-long strength workout as part of your weekly regimen. Round out any session with one of the stretching sequences targeting your common problem areas.

With each pose, you will begin to feel your tightest joints opening up and your weaker muscles coming into balance. Let yoga restore your body and mind for better overall fitness and performance.

Sage Rountree is a Registered Yoga Teacher and holds coaching certifications from USA Triathlon and USA Cycling. Her popular yoga classes for athletes draw students ranging from Ironman triathletes and Olympians to everyday cyclists, runners, and walkers. A successful competitor in running and triathlon, she has raced distances ranging from 5K to half-Ironman.

Edition details

• Publisher: VeloPress
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193403004X
• ISBN 13: 9781934030042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 251