Category: Training and Racing
Dancing Dogs Yoga Greensboro Practice Notes
On State Street in Greensboro, NC, Libby Ramsey has built a beautiful studio. Dancing Dogs Greensboro has just moved to a bigger space, and it couldn’t be any prettier, any more welcoming, or home to any better crew than those who came to my workshop yesterday. Thanks, y’all! As promised, here are our practice notes. Warmup…
Listen: Women’s Running Telesummit
Wouldn’t you like to learn how to: Train more efficiently and effectively so that you can improve your running without spending extra precious time? Practice optimal nutrition for performance and maintaining your ideal weight? Prevent and treat injuries so you can avoid frustrating layoffs that derail your progress? Run your personal best, regardless of the…
Read: Match Your Practice to Your Season
Periodizing your yoga practice is especially important as you age—it takes us masters athletes longer to recover between hard workouts. Here’s an overview I wrote for Yoga for Aging Athletes. If you compete in a sport, your training follows a cycle that should build in progressive stages to your peak competitions, then allow for downtime before…
Sage Advice: What Changed?
Like many yoga teachers, often I find students asking me questions after class about ways to relieve a pain that’s newly emerged. In general, I shy away from answering such questions—I’m not that kind of doctor, but if you need a literary text critically analyzed, let me know—and I encourage my teacher trainees to acknowledge…
Yoga for Aging Athletes: Core Engagement 101
Over at Yoga for Aging Athletes, Alexandra has posted a piece—including a video—explaining core engagement. A highlight: you can like your cupcakes and still have a strong core! In our “Basics” posts, you’ll find quick overviews and tutorials for basic ways to stay strong and healthy. Let’s start with the most basic of basics: core…
How Remembering Your TV Favorites Can Improve Your Form
Check out page 62 of the November issue of Runner’s World—or click here—to find my piece detailing exercises to do before and after your run to improve your form. The online version of the story includes helpful videos to show you how to do each exercise. Once you’re comfortable with these exercises to do before and…
Read: Music to Make Triathlon Training Fly By
Facing down a winter of indoor training is less brutal when you’ve got good music. I wrote a piece for my friends at Wanderlust with suggestions on how music can inspire your training, along with Google Play channel recommendations (I truly do love Google Play’s curated stations). Training for a swim-bike-run triathlon means many hours of…
Read: Yoga Poses for Runners
Jason Fitzgerald has a nice overview of yoga for runners on his Strength Running site today. I gave him some advice about periodization for the story: In the off-season and early base, a stronger style of yoga is OK, but as the goal race approaches, and especially in the taper, runners need to stick to…
Read: The 5 Best Yoga Moves for Athletes
I love Outside magazine and their beautiful website, Outside Online, so I was really excited to talk to them about the five best yoga poses for athletes to include. Illustrated by pictures from Everyday Yoga, this short, accessible routine combines working poses and resting poses to be a bare-minimum routine to help balance your body. Please enjoy and…
Read: Exclusive Excerpt from The Women’s Guide to Triathlon
Everyday Yoga isn’t my only new publication this summer; I contributed to The Women’s Guide to Triathlon, a fantastic compilation of essays covering all aspects of the sport. (It’s a great book for women and men; you can also read a chapter of mine in its companion volume, USA Triathlon’s Complete Triathlon Guide.) Here’s an excerpt from my chapter, “Alternative Exercises…
Postview: Running Summit Midwest
The Running Summit Midwest featured a fantastic lineup of speakers, including Jack Daniels—who was interesting and gracious as could be—and both Ross Tucker and Jonathan Dugas from the Science of Sport blog. I presented on recovery and on yoga and led a yoga session for participants, in which we investigated yoga to do before, during, and after…
Listen: Everyday Yoga on the Outspoken Cyclist
Diane Lees, host of “The Outspoken Cyclist,” is a yoga teacher (at a studio called Daily Yoga, no less)—and therefore, when we spoke last week, she asked especially useful questions about Everyday Yoga and the ways that yoga can and should fit into an athlete’s life. You can hear our full conversation on her wonderful podcast…