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| The Athlete's Guide to Yoga: An Integrated Approach to Strength, Flexibility, and Focus (Mountaineers Outdoor Expert) | 
 enlarge | Author: Sage Rountree
Publisher: VeloPress
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (6 reviews)
Sales Rank: 39739
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/DVD
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.4 x 1
ISBN: 193403004X
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7046
EAN: 9781934030042
ASIN: 193403004X
Publication Date: December 28, 2007
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Product Description
Yoga makes good athletes better. With its emphasis on flexibility, balance, and whole-body strength, this time-honored discipline leads to better form, efficiency, and power. As increasing numbers of athletes are discovering, it improves mental focus and endurance, assets that become especially important at the end of a training session or race. This book explains how athletes can see progress from just ten minutes of yoga each day. It features more than 230 color photographs illustrating over 100 poses that target common areas of inflexibility and overuse; breath and meditation exercises; different types of yoga for each phase of training; a DVD with warm-up and cool-down routines; and recommendations for intensity and volume of yoga workouts throughout the training year. Author Sage Rountree's applications for training and racing ease the introduction to yoga, making this a practical and worthwhile guide for all athletes.
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Solid well thought out book....must buy November 9, 2008
Now training for longer distance triathlons, we must leverage potential tools and techniques to help us get to our peak performance. There is no "special ingredient" says Kung FU Panda; I agree. Point here is that the ""special ingredient" comes from inside your ability to believe in your own success despite what obstacles you encounter. However, leveraging yoga (meaning poses and significant stretching) into your weekly, monthly and yearly training plan without question for many of us will make a direct impact to our peak race performance and overall fitness.
I started as the last one to be interested in yoga. I stretched some, but by training smarter and adding in yoga and Pilates my performance without question has improved significantly.
My goal is purchasing this book was to expand on the great sage roundtree podcasts and have some simple, quick poses that I could do at home when I didn't have time to hit the gym/studio for yoga class or immediately pre/post workouts.
This is a solid book with great illustrations, a must buy.
I'm a convert. September 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a coach and long time distance runner, I had approached incorporating yoga into my workouts with skepticism. This book changed all that. Ms. Rountree puts yoga into a new light and this book is very runner friendly. I now use the workouts for myself, my cross country and track teams. Great book.
Great Book--Has definitely made me more flexible July 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am a clumsy, non-flexible person with IT Band issues...Doing the poses explained very well in this book (both verbally and pictorally) has made a noticeable difference in my flexibility. I also have less IT Band issues. Great book.
Athlete's guide to Yoga May 30, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
While yoga is an extensive topic and can be difficult to understand, Sage keeps it simple to understand and easy to follow. I love the way she breaks it down to incorporate into various training programs as an adjunct to the primary training.
A Perfect Yoga Book January 17, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Not only is this a perfect book for athletes, it is also perfect for non-athletes. It is an excellent introduction for those new to yoga, and would be a great new resource for yoga instructors. As a cyclist and a yoga teacher in training, I found this writing to be the most elegant and direct explanation of the broad principles of yoga of any book I've read. It introduces the concepts of yoga and then provides examples of how they are to be applied in the real world. Resources are provided for those who want further study.
Sage Rountree's introduction to yoga in the first part of the book is worth the price itself. For anyone curious about yoga, this explains everything needed to approach it safely and with confidence. For athletes, she specifically discusses how the different types of yoga can be appropriately incorporated into their training program. The middle of the book is dedicated to the poses, breathing and meditation. Each pose is illustrated and fully described as to how to safely get into the pose, along with modifications. Relaxation and breathing are well covered with an emphasis on how important they are to an athlete's recovery time. The last part of the book discusses how to use yoga within the cycles of a training plan and finishes with several sequences for specific needs, such as stretching, warming up and restorative poses. Many of these sequences are great for any busy person wanting to "sneak" in some yoga during their hectic day. This author seems to be one of the few who understands that many who are interested in yoga are also very busy.
This is just a wonderful book. I hope it gets the attention of a very broad audience because it has so much to offer. It has now become the first book I would recommend to anyone asking about yoga.
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