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Yoga for Runners

Prevent injury, build strength, enhance performance
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Yoga for Runners by Lexie Williamson is a comprehensive guide that blends yoga practices with running training to enhance endurance, strength, and recovery. It offers step-by-step exercises designed to release tight muscles like hamstrings and hip flexors, strengthen core and weak muscles, improve flexibility, prevent injury, and sharpen breathing and mental focus. Suitable for runners of all levels, this book aims to help you run further, faster, and with improved form.
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Ideal for runners of all abilities looking to improve their performance, prevent injury, and incorporate yoga into their training regime.

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The bestselling guide to using yoga to become a stronger, smoother runner.

The bestselling guide to using yoga to become a stronger, smoother runner.

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'A fantastic book'Running Fitness

'The Bible for runners who want to use yoga to enhance their running performance'Athletics Weekly

'The latest way to enhance your running performance'Trail Running

TRANSFORM YOUR RUNNING THROUGH YOGA

Would you like to run further and faster? Want to find the perfect runner's flow?

Yoga is the key to unlocking your running potential. Practised by the world’s leading endurance athletes, yoga builds strength, improves flexibility, and boosts recovery.

Fully revised and featuring step-by-step exercises and workouts, the bestselling Yoga for Runners shows you how to:

  • release running tight spots, like the hamstrings and hip flexors
  • run taller with focused core exercises
  • strengthen weak muscles through power yoga moves
  • prevent injury with recovery techniques
  • breathe more deeply and sharpen your mind

Suitable for runners of all levels, this is your essential training companion for strong and smooth running.

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A fantastic book according to Running Fitness, and praised as the Bible for runners who want to use yoga to enhance their running performance by Athletics Weekly. Trail Running calls it the latest way to boost running performance, while Health & Fitness describes it as the next big thing in the fitness world.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399406017

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Sport

Illustration: Full colour throughout

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 190.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 580g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Lexie Williamson is a British Wheel of Yoga and Institute of Yoga Sports Science®-qualified instructor specialising in yoga for runners and cyclists. She has written for Runner’s World, Trail Running, Women’s Fitness and The Guardian. Lexie is also the author of the Bloomsbury books Yoga for Cyclists, Move and The Stretching Bible, and co-author of the Audible relaxation guide Power Up to Power Down with sports psychologist Dr Josephine Perry.

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