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The yogafit athlete : up your game with sport-specific poses to build strength, flexibility, and balance / Beth Shaw.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Ballantine Books, 2016Edition: Ballantine books trade paperback originalDescription: 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780804178570
  • 0804178577
Subject(s):
Contents:
The fundamentals of the yogafit approach. Gaining physical and mental strength through yogafit ; Getting ready for yoga -- The poses -- Key components of sports success: Core and balance, restorative yoga, and weight training -- Breath -- Visualization, guided imagery and meditation.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 613.7046 S534 Available 33111008397479
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What do Seattle Seahawks head coach, Pete Carroll, Shaquille O'Neal, LeBron James and Volleyball great Gabby Reese have in common? They all swear by yoga's ability to improve their athleticism (or their team's; Carroll has made yoga mandatory for the Seahawks roster!). But you certainly don't have to be a pro athlete to reap the benefits. Whether you're a serious triathlete, a weekend tennis buff, or a pick-up basketball player, adding a short yoga sequence to your routine will help seriously up your game! Every athlete overuses discrete muscle groups and under-utilizes others in their sport of choice. The perfect cross training tool as well as an amazing stand-alone exercise, yoga is the perfect complement to any sport, helping to balance both body and mind. With yoga poses and short routines tailored to specific sports (15 in all), Beth Shaw's The YogaFitAthlete will help the "weekend warrior" and professional athlete alike counteract repetitive and strong-side muscular and structural issues, while also building strength and improving overall athletic energy. Including more than 100 clear and simple demonstration photos, breath work and focus advice, the book also includes an important universal torso workout that builds power and strength into the core--helpful to all athletes--as well as quick and essential yoga warm-up and cool-down routines.

Sports specifically covered- Swimming, running, cycling, golf, tennis, baseball, football, volleyball, basketball, skiing, snowboarding, weightlifting, kickboxing, boxing, Crossfit.

Includes index.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

The fundamentals of the yogafit approach. Gaining physical and mental strength through yogafit ; Getting ready for yoga -- The poses -- Key components of sports success: Core and balance, restorative yoga, and weight training -- Breath -- Visualization, guided imagery and meditation.

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