یوگا فیت آتلت: با حرکات خاص ورزشی قدرت، انعطاف‌پذیری و تعادل خود را افزایش دهید

"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 Title Page......Page 3 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Introduction......Page 8 The Underpinnings of Yoga......Page 9 1. The Fundamentals of the Yogafit Approach......Page 13 Chapter 1. Gaining Physical and Mental Strength Through Yogafit......Page 14 The Fundamentals of the YogaFit Approach......Page 16 PEP Talks......Page 19 Being Your Own Coach......Page 21 Chapter 2. Getting Ready for Yoga......Page 22 Safe Yoga......Page 25 Warming Up, Working Out, and Cooling Down......Page 27 Finding Your Routine......Page 28 2. The Poses......Page 31 Warmup Flow Sequences......Page 32 Sport-Specific Poses......Page 57 Cool-Down: Final Stretch and Flex Sequence......Page 214 3. Key Components of Sports Success: Core and Balance, Restorative Yoga, and Weight Training......Page 223 Core and Balance Poses......Page 224 Restorative Yoga Using Props......Page 240 Weight Training with Yoga......Page 256 4. Breath......Page 276 5. Visualization, Guided Imagery, and Meditation......Page 284 Visualization and Guided Imagery......Page 286 Meditation......Page 287 Guided Practice......Page 290 Dedication......Page 294 Acknowledgments......Page 295 Other Titles By Beth Shaw......Page 296 About the Author......Page 297