Purchase Christine Felstead's Yoga for Runners™ DVD
Overall Benefits of Yoga For Runners™
Tight muscles will limit range of motion in joints, create muscular imbalances that will affect your running stride and increase your risk of injury. To stay healthy and on the road, runners will benefit from integrating yoga for runners. Developed by a runner specifically for runners, this program includes both strength and flexibility in key zones. Yoga is not only for flexible people - those that have the most to gain are 'tight' bodies, like runners and endurance athletes.
Some of the benefits yoga will bring you:
Eliminate nagging aches and pains
Recover from injury and reduce risk of new injuries
Become stronger
Improve recovery times after racing
Feel better and run faster
Most importantly, yoga will keep you doing the sport you love!
Intermediate Program
A complete yoga workout - this program will deepen flexibility while including key strengthening work for runners. It includes an energetic sequence of yoga poses including details on how they benefit runners. This is an intermediate program, but anyone can take part. Participants are encouraged to stay within their limits while being given the tools to explore deeper. This yoga program will result in greater balance and symmetry by:
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Stretching tight areas (hamstrings, hips, lower back)
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Strengthening weak areas (inner quads, adductors, core, upper body and back)
The Essentials, Beginner Program
The key to unlocking your potential as an athlete is flexibility. This Beginner Program is suitable for everyone and especially those new to yoga. No body is too stiff for this program as it sets the foundations of yoga while addressing body zones most affected by running. The four-part format allows you to focus on any individual segment or run through the program in its entirety.
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Fundamentals - as a runner, how to integrate yoga
into daily life to improve sitting, standing
and running postural alignment
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Lower Back
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Hamstrings
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Hips
Also included is a visual Anatomy Reference Guide. As an athlete, knowing more about your body will help to improve performance; reduce the risk of injury; and yoga poses will be better aligned.
