The Athlete's Guide to Yoga: An Integrated Approach to Strength, Flexibility, and Focus

Yoga makes good athletes better. This time-honored discipline imparts flexibility, balance, and whole-body strength, creating improvements in an athlete's form, efficiency, and power. In addition, yoga's attention to concentration and breath awareness improves mental focus and mental endurance--hidden assets that become especially important at the end of a long training session or race. In The Athlete's Guide to Yoga, yoga instructor, endurance athlete, and coach Sage Rountree explains the benefits that yoga can bring to every training program. With hundreds of color photographs featuring more than 100 poses, this book treats common problem areas to make athletes stronger in their sport. Rountree helps athletes see progress from just 10 minutes of yoga each day. In an engaging and easy-to-follow style, The Athlete's Guide to Yoga presents:

• warm-up and cool-down routines for workouts
• simple poses to specifically target areas of inflexibility and overuse
• breath and meditation exercises
• different types of yoga for each phase of training
• recommendations for intensity and volume of yoga workouts throughout the training year

Rountree's applications for training and racing ease the introduction to yoga, making it practical and accessible for all athletes.

Sage Rountree is an internationally recognized authority on yoga for athletes and an expert endurance sports coach. She is a certified coach with USA Triathlon, USA Cycling, and the Road Runners Club of America as well as an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance. A successful competitor in running and triathlon, she has raced distances ranging from the 400m to the 50K, super sprint triathlon to Ironman. Sage is a frequent contributor to Runner's World, Triathlete, and Yoga Journal magazines and has contributed to USA Triathlon Life, VeloNews, Running Times, Inside Triathlon, and Endurance magazines as well as several websites. She is a featured instructor at Kripalu and offers yoga workshops for athletes and coaches around the country. Sage is the author of The Athlete's Guide to Recovery, The Athlete's Guide to Yoga, and The Athlete's Pocket Guide to Yoga.