Название: Power Yoga for Athletes: More than 100 Poses and Flows to Improve Performance in Any Sport
Автор: Sean Vigue
Издательство: Fair Winds Press
ISBN: 1592336159
Год: 2015
Страниц: 208
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 25.5 MB

Hockey, football, baseball, golf, swimming, lacrosse - whatever your sport of choice, yoga will help you to improve focus, flexibility, and performance. Power Yoga for Athletes is perfect for those who want a total body and mind workout. Yoga is the ideal cross-training tool and a perfect stand-alone exercise, whether you're looking to improve balance, focus, control, breathing, posture, or flexibility; strengthen your back, joints, or core; or reduce or heal from injury.

Yoga benefits athletes of all types, helping you to improve your athletic prowess and hone new strengths. You'll find many poses ideal for the sport of your choice, including:
Running
Swimming
Cycling
Golfing
Baseball
Basketball
Soccer
Football/rugby
Hockey
Tennis

Featuring more than 100 yoga poses from international fitness instructor Sean Vigue, Power Yoga for Athletes incorporates more than just poses. It describes a whole-body program for cross-training and conditioning. Each yoga pose features step-by-step directions, instructional photography, muscles being worked, overall benefits, and the sports for which each pose is ideal. Get the balance, strength, and focus you need to perform at your best.

Power yoga is the athlete’s secret weapon. Dozens of high-profile professional athletes are hitting the yoga mat, from the Seattle Seahawks American football team to basketball star LeBron James to the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team. Professional athletes are turning to power yoga to improve performance, prevent injury, and extend their careers. But while the word has gotten out that yoga is a natural fit for athletes, many are still too intimidated to give it a try. They view it as too “earthy,” for “granolas,” too intimidating, or foreign to their typical workout routine. But anyone who has practiced yoga could talk about its many benefits. Yoga involves movements and body postures that provide a full-body workout and improve flexibility, balance, focus, awareness, strength, endurance, and recovery. My hope is that Power Yoga for Athletes will serve as a gateway to all athletes interested in reaping the benefits the mat has to offer.