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An invaluable guide to help athletes maximize training gains by
making the most of their recovery time. Recovery—physical and
mental—is a red-hot topic, and the worlds of sports, technology,
and commerce have all taken note. But which practices and devices
really make a difference in recovery, and which should be avoided?
What will truly maximize performance? In this second edition of The
Athlete’s Guide to Recovery, endurance and recovery coach Sage
Rountree, PhD, explains exactly how to get the most out of training
by optimizing recovery time. She begins by examining the importance
of recovery, how athletes can measure their own state of recovery,
and what can go wrong when recovery is insufficient. Rountree then
provides proven techniques to enhance recovery and improve
performance, emphasizing the fundamentals of sleep, nutrition, and
stress management. Finally, readers are provided with various
sample recovery plans for all types of training and competition.
This second edition features up-to-date research that has emerged
to support the importance of basic recovery strategies and includes
a much-needed, careful look at new devices on the market. Whether
self-coached, coached, or team-sport athletes, The Athlete’s
Guide to Recovery provides readers with an evidence-based approach
to finding the right balance between stress and rest.
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Adaptive Yoga (Paperback)
Ingrid Yang, Kyle Fahey; Foreword by Sage Rountree
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Discovery Miles 9 300
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The massive growth in the popularity of yoga as a form of exercise
and as a method of maintaining whole-body wellness has led to
thousands of published research studies confirming what yoga
practitioners already know: Yoga relieves stress, improves mental
and emotional health, enhances sleep, relieves low back pain and
neck pain, promotes weight loss, and even enables smoking
cessation. Further study has proven that yoga helps individuals
with disabilities improve their functional activities of daily
living, recover from injuries, gain mobility, experience less pain,
and manage anxiety and depressive symptoms. Adaptive Yoga takes
these studies out of the research labs and onto the yoga mat to
empower individuals with disabilities or chronic health conditions
to create an effective and safe yoga practice. If you work with
these special populations as a yoga teacher or rehabilitative
therapist, you will find guidance and recommended poses for some of
the most common conditions and disabilities, including these: Low
back pain Hip, knee, and rheumatoid arthritis Spinal cord injury
Stroke Cerebral palsy Lower limb amputation Parkinson's disease
Multiple sclerosis Each pose is presented in detail so you fully
understand how it helps the student improve functionality. The text
instructs the reader on how to enter, hold, and exit the pose
safely, as well as why the pose is beneficial for that condition.
When appropriate, contraindications are presented so the yoga
practice can be tailored to address any additional conditions or
limitations. Challenge variations and restorative modifications for
many poses make further individualization possible. In Adaptive
Yoga, authors Ingrid Yang, MD, and Kyle Fahey, DPT, have combined
their extensive backgrounds in yoga, medicine, and physical therapy
with their unique insights and passion for movement and
rehabilitation to present an essential guide for helping those with
chronic conditions experience the countless physical and mental
benefits of yoga practice. CE exam available! For certified
professionals, a companion continuing education exam can be
completed after reading this book. The Adaptive Yoga Online CE Exam
may be purchased separately or as part of the Adaptive Yoga With CE
Exam package that includes both the book and the exam.
For yoga teachers at every stage of their careers - not a what-to-teach guide but a how-to-teach guide
**Includes guidance on adapting your teaching to online platforms**
There's so much more to teaching yoga than doing yoga -- from building a relationship with a studio (or opening your own) to navigating client relationships, publicising classes, and avoiding burnout. Sage Rountree has been training yoga teachers for over a decade, and she's heard the same concerns over and over: How can I help my students best? How can I keep my teaching fresh? How can I make smart choices around my schedule, my money, and the next steps in my career?
The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook speaks directly to these concerns in a warm, friendly voice --boosting teachers' confidence in their ability to construct a heartfelt, balanced class, and to build a career that suits them. Rountree includes stories from her own experience, journal prompts, and thoughtful workbook exercises to help aspiring yoga teachers discern their path, and to provide current yoga teachers with much-desired continuing education. This is the book every yoga teacher needs!
The ultimate guide to the yoga profession--at every stage of your
teaching career Yoga has helped you, and now you want to share what
you've learned. Maybe you've just graduated from yoga teacher
training, and you're wondering how to take your next steps. Or
perhaps you've been teaching for a while, but you feel unsure about
how to get a studio job, develop a workshop, establish clear
boundaries with your students, or level up in your career. Wherever
you are, The Professional Yoga Teacher's Handbook will help you
choose a wise path toward where you want to be. Sage Rountree mines
her decades of experience as a yoga teacher, teacher trainer, and
studio owner to offer guidance at every turn: Land your first job,
and smartly manage your schedule, money, and energy Prepare outside
the classroom to ensure that each class is a good one Keep pace
with changing Yoga Alliance standards and the expanding world of
online teaching React in real time to students' needs (and gently
teach studio etiquette) Figure out whether you want to become a
full-time teacher, own a studio, take private clients, lead yoga
teacher trainings--or all of the above. Throughout, thoughtful
prompts encourage you to articulate your principles, vision, and
plans. Instead of telling you what to teach, this book will guide
you to your own answers--first and foremost, by asking: How can my
teaching be of greatest service to my students?
Race wisely to achieve your personal best.
You've trained for your peak race for months. When the big day
comes, how will you perform? All the training in the world is
useless if you can't execute your race plan and cope with
unforeseen events, and subpar training can be overcome if you
approach race day with the right attitude.
Whether you are new to racing or have been frustrated by
underperformance or setbacks, Racing Wisely gives you tools-from
the practical to the philosophical-to perform to the best of your
ability. You'll learn how to:
*Choose the right race for your personal strengths
*Test yourself in training to identify the right race pace and
effort
*Write a race plan that helps you feel calm, prepared, and in
control
*Manage your energy in the week, days, and hours before the
race
*Warm up properly to race at your best
*Pace correctly for races of every distance
*Race for a personal-best time, or race competitively for
place
*Recover physically and mentally to set up your next personal best
Coach Sage Rountree provides concrete tips and pacing tools for
athletes racing endurance events including open-water races, bike
races, track, road, and trail running, multisport races, and
adventure races. Learn to plan and execute perfect pacing as you
race to your personal best, and gain tools to make the best of
whatever situation emerges on race day.
Learn to race wisely: to use your experience to grow stronger, to
move faster, and to come through when it really counts.
Endorsements
"Sage Rountree has made a career of filling the gaps in guidance
for endurance athletes, and she has done it again with this
comprehensive and practical guide. Whether your usual race goal is
to finish or to win, Sage's collected wisdom will give you a huge
boost toward consistently performing at your personal best in
competition. Whatever is holding you back from racing as well as
you could, you will find a way through it in these pages."
-from the foreword by Matt Fitzgerald, author of "Racing Weight"
and "The New Rules of Marathon and Half Marathon Nutrition"
"Runners spend so much time on training: week after week after
week. Sometimes, it seems that that's all we talk about. But the
end goal is the race. Unfortunately, we don't always put in the
same dedication to planning a successful race as we do planning our
training. Racing Wisely provides that often missing ingredient of
race preparation and will help runners put all their great training
to good use when it counts-the race. Sage Rountree understands
performance, and this guide will prove invaluable for goal-oriented
athletes."
-Greg McMillan, coach, McMillan Running, and author of "YOU (Only
Faster)"
""Racing Wisely" delivers exactly what you hope for from a smart
yogi-runner-triathlete: thoughtful insight about goals, intentions,
and actions told in an engagingly conversational, down-to-earth
style. I love that this book offers practical and philosophical
advice for the whole spectrum of athletes, from serious goal-driven
competitors to more experiential but just as passionate casual
athletes. A great addition to the thinking runner's library."
-Tish Hamilton, Executive Editor, "Runner's World"
America's leading expert on yoga for active people, Sage Rountree,
shares her approach to practicing yoga every day in this colorful,
lay-flat guide to yoga poses and routines. Flexibility, balance,
whole-body strength, recovery, range of motion, focus--a regular
yoga practice brings many benefits to people who lead active lives.
For athletes in particular, the dynamic stretching of
athlete-friendly yoga poses and properly designed yoga exercises
can counteract the tightness and imbalances that come from daily
workouts. In Everyday Yoga, certified coach and registered yoga
teacher Sage Rountree shares the yoga positions and exercises she
has developed in her own yoga studio, at Kripalu, and working with
active people during her popular yoga clinics around the country.
She guides experienced yoga practitioners and yoga beginners on the
best ways to design and develop their own at-home yoga routines.
Everyday Yoga provides endless opportunities to explore and
practice yoga in your own home: How to design yoga sessions to
address the whole body or specific areas How to sequence yoga poses
for a satisfying practice How to create yoga routines of varying
duration from 5 to 50 minutes How to make yoga poses easier or more
challenging Each Everyday Yoga routine moves the spine in every
direction and loosens tight hips in routines that can last from 5
to 50 minutes, leaving readers satisfied and relaxed. By sequencing
several routines together, readers can build stronger, more
flexible, injury-resistant bodies.
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