The Athlete's Guide to Yoga by Sage Rountree

The Athlete's Guide to Yoga by Sage Rountree

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.

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.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781934030042
ISBN 10	193403004X
Title	The Athlete's Guide to Yoga
Author	Sage Rountree
Series	The Athlete's Guide
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	VeloPress
Year published	2008-03-20
Number of pages	251
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.