Category: Training and Racing
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Yoga for Aging Athletes: Core Engagement 101
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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…
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How Remembering Your TV Favorites Can Improve Your Form
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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…
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Read: Music to Make Triathlon Training Fly By
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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…
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Read: Yoga Poses for Runners
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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…
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Read: The 5 Best Yoga Moves for Athletes
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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…
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Read: Exclusive Excerpt from The Women’s Guide to Triathlon
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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…
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Postview: Running Summit Midwest
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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…
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Listen: Everyday Yoga on the Outspoken Cyclist
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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…
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Read: Surfers Need Yoga Too, by Jenni Tarma
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One of the homework assignments for my online teachers’ intensive on yoga for athletes, available at sageyogateachertraining.com, is to design a sport-specific yoga routine that will help athletes correct the imbalances caused by training. The extra credit portion of the assignment is then to turn the homework into a magazine article or blog post. Jenni…
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Listen: The Mindful Revolution
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I had a great time talking to Jeff Bogart on his Mindful Revolution show yesterday. Our conversation, which included some fun input from my colleague Fadia Bascom, covered my career path, the benefits of yoga and meditation for athletes, adaptation to training stress, my books,and the secret to running a successful yoga studio. You can find the full…
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Sage Advice: Quelling Pre-Competition Nerves
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View image | gettyimages.com A young hammer thrower wrote me wondering how meditation might help him feel focused and relaxed before his meets. Here’s my answer. First thing I’d say is that some of what sports psychologists would call “arousal”—the anxiety and nervous feeling you have before a meet—is a good thing. It keeps you alert…
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Read: Standing Core Strengtheners
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We all know that having a strong core improves our running and everything else we do. But it’s easy to slack off on doing your core work. For the May 2015 issue of Runner’s World, I contributed a quick, no-excuses routine you can do immediately after your workout, or as a standalone sequence in the middle of your…