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  • Published: 15 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780804178570
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $55.00

The YogaFit Athlete

Up Your Game with Sport-Specific Poses to Build Strength, Flexibility, and Balance



The first book to bring the strength and breathing power of yoga to recreational and professional athletes alike--advice, coaching, and routines tailored to help counteract the repetitive strain, musculature imbalance, and focus issues in 15 popular sports.

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

  • Published: 15 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9780804178570
  • Imprint: Random House US Group
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $55.00

About the author

Beth Shaw

BETH SHAW is the president and founder of YogaFit Training Systems which has trained more than 100,000 fitness instructors on six continents. Shaw is the author of Beth Shaw's YogaFit, as well as the publisher of Angles magazine, which is distributed to yoga and fitness enthusiasts and instructors. Shaw and her company have been showcased in numerous fitness magazines as well as Oprah's O Magazine, Time, More, Entrepreneur, Yoga Journal, Glamour, Self, and USA Today. She has also been featured on CNBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, E Style Channel, Showtime and Donny Deutsch's The Big Idea. She has more than 30 DVDs and CDs on the market and is widely recognized as the premier yoga fitness trainer in the industry. She lives in Beverly Hills, CA.

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