Category: Recovery
Read: Add Some Downtime to Your Training Plan
Relax! It’ll make you faster. Better yet, it’ll make you a better person. This is the topic of The Runner’s Guide to Yoga, my recovery video series at Competitor Running, and this essay: Seasonality and cyclicality are engrained in our bodies, from the annual trip around the sun to the monthly cycle of the moon to…
Racing Wisely: Postrace Reflection
Here’s an excerpt from my latest book, Racing Wisely, with ideas on using your postrace reflections for self-growth and help in choosing a new goal. Reflection As you take time off of workouts after your peak race, you’ll have some extra free time. Devote this to mental recovery and reflection. It can be tough to be out…
Read: The Triathlete’s Guide to Massage
One of the sweetest parts of my job is researching recovery modalities, from napping to restorative yoga to massage. A current hypothesis is that it’s impossible to get too much massage; I’m deep in data collection. You need a massage, too. Here’s a piece I wrote for Ironman.com on massage for triathletes, but massage is…
Watch: Wall Folds Yoga for Athletes Short Practice
My latest class at Yoga Vibes is a half-hour practice for recovery and release through the hips. Wall Folds: Yoga for Athletes Short Practice Yoga Class Description In this short online yoga practice for athletes and everyone, we use legs-up-the-wall pose as a home base for a series of stretches targeting the hamstrings and…
Extreme Last Minute Gifts
Are you the type to do your holiday shopping at the drugstore as dusk approaches on Christmas Eve? Here are a few extremely last-minute ideas from the intersection of yoga and endurance sports: Epsom salts, combined with a copy of The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery (also available in German, Japanese, and Spanish). While the salts themselves may or…
Yoga for Runners, Paragon Sports
Last week, I visited the legendary, still-family-owned Paragon Sports near Union Square in New York City for a yoga for runners class, thanks to my sponsor prAna. It was a beautifully produced event, start to finish, and there were even sandwiches! A lovely, lively community of runners congregates at Paragon, and I felt honored to…
Yoga as Reward
Yesterday, I taught one of the more interesting classes I’ve had the pleasure to lead lately. Somewhat surreally, it took place on the main floor of the Smith Center under the lights, but what made it special—in fact, what makes most standout moments special—is the intention behind it. I’ve been working with the UNC men’s…
Sage Advice: Rest Up
When I visit the UNC men’s basketball team to teach yoga, we make a lot of jokes about napping. Players can fall asleep on a dime; last summer, one of the freshmen fell asleep in legs up the wall and stayed there all the way through the closing. Several former players, now professionals, come back…
The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, Japanese Edition (リカバリー ─アスリートの疲労回復のために─ )
What a treat and surprise when this came from my publisher in today’s mail! The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, aka リカバリー ─アスリートの疲労回復のために─ in Japanese! As with the Spanish edition, this carries the graphs and photos from the original English edition, which is good, because that’s the only thing I recognize other than my name. The…
Scheduled: Summer Yoga Mala
Join me and my fantastic colleagues Michelle Johnson and Hollie Sue Mann next month for a yoga mala complete with recovery practices! As the light of summer reaches its peak, Michelle Johnson, Hollie Sue Mann, and Sage Rountree will lead us in their version of a summer yoga mala on Saturday, June 22. This mala…
Watch: Yoga for Postgame Recovery
My latest class on YogaVibes is an hourlong practice for postgame recovery. Join the Cornell women’s lacrosse team for this yoga session for athletes and everyone. You’ll warm up the spine, shoulders, and hips, then relax into deep stretches designed to help you stay present moment to moment while preparing you for your next workout…
Sage Advice: Moving off a Plateau
Last night, I spoke to a fantastic group of women at Great Outdoor Provision Company in Chapel Hill. Most were beginner triathletes and triathletes-in-training preparing for the Ramblin’ Rose races, a series of beginner-friendly triathlons and running races staged by Endurance Magazine. (In the photo, my face, captured midsentence, echoes the terrified expressions some of them…