The YogaFit Athlete: Up Your Game with Sport-Specific Poses to Build Strength, Flexibility, and Balance

The YogaFit Athlete: Up Your Game with Sport-Specific Poses to Build Strength, Flexibility, and Balance

by Beth Shaw
The YogaFit Athlete: Up Your Game with Sport-Specific Poses to Build Strength, Flexibility, and Balance

The YogaFit Athlete: Up Your Game with Sport-Specific Poses to Build Strength, Flexibility, and Balance

by Beth Shaw

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Overview

Bring the strength and breathing power of yoga to the sports you love—and seriously up your game!

Yoga routines designed specifically for swimming, running, cycling, golf, tennis, baseball, football, volleyball, basketball, skiing, snowboarding, weight lifting, kickboxing, boxing, CrossFit, and more!
 
“Your body can either help you achieve your goals or get in the way of you living your best life. By practicing yoga and meditation, you can make your body work with you, not against you.”—Beth Shaw
 
Whether you’re a professional athlete, a weekend warrior, or a pick-up game enthusiast, yoga can dramatically affect your athletic performance and improve your alignment, balance, core stability, strength, flexibility, agility, endurance, lung capacity, and mobility. In this motivating and practical guide, celebrated fitness expert Beth Shaw provides short, sport-specific yoga routines designed to help counter tight muscles, overuse injuries, and musculature imbalances. By adding a quick yoga routine to any workout, you will increase your overall strength and health, and achieve your personal best.
 
Inside you’ll find
• fully illustrated, sport-specific yoga routines that engage the core, enhance your play, and reduce the risk of injury
• essential warm-up and cool-down movements to complement any athletic endeavor
• simple breathing exercises to steady your breath and calm your nerves during competition
• meditation techniques to help clear your mind and bring laser focus to your goals
• guided imagery and visualization exercises to improve performance
• strategies for coaching yourself and others

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780804178570
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/05/2016
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Beth Shaw is the president and founder of the world-renowned YogaFit® training systems, the largest yoga school in the world, as well as the author of YogaLean and Beth Shaw’s YogaFit and the creator of more than a hundred bestselling yoga and fitness DVDs and CDs. Shaw works with the NFL as well as many sports teams and athletes. A sought-after international presenter, Shaw travels the world spreading the message of health and wellness. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Table of Contents

Introduction xi

The Underpinnings of Yoga xiv

1 The Fundamentals of the Yogafit Approach 1

Chapter 1 Gaining Physical and Mental Strength Through Yogafit 3

The Fundamentals of the YogaFit Approach 6

PEP Talks 10

Being Your Own Coach 13

Chapter 2 Getting Ready For Yoga 15

Safe Yoga 19

Warming Up, Working Out, and Cooling Down 21

Finding Your Routine 23

2 The Poses 25

Warmup Flow Sequences 26

Sport-Specific Poses 43

Cool-Down: Final Stretch and Flex Sequence 227

3 Key Components of Sports Success: Core and Balance, Restorative Yoga, and Weight Training 239

Core and Balance Poses 240

Restorative Yoga Using Props 259

Weight Training with Yoga 278

4 Breath 289

5 A Visualization, Guided Imagery, and Meditation 299

Visualization and Guided Imagery 303

Meditation 304

Guided Practice 308

Acknowledgments 313

Index 315

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