Work In (eBook)

The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results

Erin Taylor (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
208 Seiten
VeloPress (Verlag)
978-1-948006-02-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Work In shares new mental and physical recovery techniques for athletes who give it all in every workout. Yoga and recovery coach Erin Taylor gives athletes practical tools and an integrated plan for real recovery from trainingand everyday life. By making yoga and meditation easy for anyone, Taylor gives athletes a way to do recovery right. Just 5 minutes a day of ';working in' can prime athletes for faster, fuller recovery and higher performance. With unprecedented access to training data and workout bragging rights on social networks, athletes are doing everything they can to ';win the workout' and keep pace with the athletes around them. Every athlete knows that training brings results, but workouts are only half the equation. Workouts tear the body down. Athletes must also ';work in' to gain full recovery, when the body rebuilds for higher performance. Taylor's Work In program brings real recovery to athletes wherever they areat home or on the trail, track, field, or court. Work In techniques can be performance anywhere with minimal or no props and can be easily incorporated into any training plan. Work In offers Low time commitmentjust 5 minutes a day to fully integrate recovery into training A 28-day recovery plan to introduce meditation and restorative yoga 11 meditations for athletes and 3 visualizations for brain training and mental focus 27 poses and 4 restorative yoga routines for physical relaxation Tips to get started and prompts to stay engaged Erin Taylor's Work In will help athletes balance working out with working in so they can close the gap between where they are and where they want to be.

Autor

Erin Taylor is an international leader in yoga for athletes and founder of Jasyoga, a revolutionary approach to yoga for athletes. Her mission is to help as many athletes as possible use yoga to achieve their goals, and become more balanced and resilient along the way. She shares her approach in Hit Reset: Revolutionary Yoga for Athletes and Work In: The Athlete’s Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results.It was her own experience of being sidelined by injury as a collegiate basketball player that first showed her how yoga can be the “Reset” that brings athletes back into balance. Erin founded Jasyoga to equip athletes with powerful skills to prevent injuries and enhance recovery, optimizing performance in sport and life. Over the last decade, she has infused meditation, functional anatomy, and physical therapy techniques into her practice. Now accessible anytime, anywhere via her online video platform and Hit Reset and Work In books, Erin’s approach has been widely embraced by athletes ranging from recreational to elite, and can be configured to help anyone achieve their goals.In addition to privately coaching sports teams and athletes, she hosts yoga-for-athletes certification programs and writes a popular blog at jasyoga.com/blog. She lives in London with her husband and daughter.

Inhalt

PrefaceIntro: Work in for the win1 Rethink recoverySlow down to speed upUse your nervous systemSigns that you need to work inHow to work in to recover for real2 Get your head rightWhy meditate?Flow on purposeMake the most of stressHow to meditateThe toolsHow to get startedHurdle the barriers Work in for mental focus: 4 breathing meditations, 3 mantra meditations, 3 visualizations, 4 sensation meditations3 Recharge your bodyWhy do restorative yoga?How to do restorative yogaHow to get startedWork in for physical relaxation: 17 poses to relax deeply, 10 poses to gently mobilize, 4 restorative yoga routines4 The 28-day recovery planHigh fivesAbout the athletesAbout the author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2018
• Zusatzinfo: Full-color interior with 150 photographs and illustrations throughout.
• Verlagsort: Boulder
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 180 x 180 mm
• Gewicht: 544 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fitness / Aerobic / Bodybuilding
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Andy Puddicombe • Art of Attention • athletes for yoga • Athletes Guide to Recovery • brain training for athletes • Brain Training for Runners • Erin Taylor • Get Some Headspace • Hit Reset • Jasyoga • Lauren Fleshman • meditation for athletes • mental focus training • mental focus training for athletes • Mindful Athlete • mindfulness for athletes • Oiselle • recovery yoga for athletes • recovery yoga for runners • restorative yoga for athletes • restorative yoga for runners • runners Guide to Yoga • The Athlete’s Guide to Recovery • The Mindful Athlete • The Runner’s Guide to Yoga • Work In • workinbook • yoga for athletes • #yogaforreal • yoga for real • yoga for runners
• ISBN-10: 1-948006-02-2 / 1948006022
• ISBN-13: 978-1-948006-02-6 / 9781948006026