Flexibility is Power. If you play sports, adding yoga to your strength and conditioning routine can help you increase flexibility, improve range of motion and power, reduce your chances of injury, decrease recovery time. Here are a few poses to get you started.
Winter is a great time to stretch and recover more. When spring rolls around you're body will be recharged and ready for your best race / sports season.
In the weeks leading up to your marathon or triathlon, while you're tapering down your mileage and training its a perfect time to incorporate a few yoga tools to prepare your mind and body for your best race day.
This recovery and flexibility sequence is ideal for swimmers, cyclists, runners and athletes of all sports to increase ROM, reduce stiffness and create a more limber, agile athlete. Myofascial release with a foam roller along with stretching can help increase blood flow and speed recovery, reduce muscle tension and your chances of injury, and improve overall performance.
In my quest to do a minimum of 10 minutes of yoga daily for 365 consecutive days, I have found Sun Salutations to energize and inspire me daily... especially if you take 5 minutes at the beginning to sit quietly and set and intention and take another 5 minutes at the end to do a few seated stretches and a short meditation.
Sometimes the last thing you feel like doing (exercise) is exactly what you need. Take a 10 minute time out for some simple Sun Salutations to feel calm yet energized!
