Power Yoga for Athletes: More Than 100 Poses and Flows to Improve Performance in Any Sport - Paperback

by Sean Vigue (Author)

Boost your athletic performance with the strength, balance, and focus of power yoga. With step-by-step, photo-illustrated instruction for over 100 yoga poses, Power Yoga for Athletes is a whole-body program for cross-training and conditioning.

Whatever your sport, yoga is the perfect total body and mind workout, the ideal cross-training tool, and an excellent stand-alone exercise. Use this yoga program created by fitness instructor Sean Vigue to improve balance, focus, control, breathing, posture, and flexibility; strengthen your back, joints, and core; or reduce or heal from injury.

Yoga benefits athletes of all types, helping you to improve your athletic prowess and hone new strengths. You'll find many poses ideal for the sport of your choice, including: running, swimming, cycling, golfing, baseball, basketball, soccer, football/rugby, hockey, and tennis.

Each yoga pose features:

• Step-by-step directions
• Instructional photography
• Illustrations showing the muscles being worked
• Description of its overall benefits
• The sports for which the pose is ideal

Get the balance, strength, and focus you need to perform at your best.

Author Biography

Sean Vigue is Colorado's premier Yoga and Pilates instructor, creator of Pilates Style's "Best Male Workout of 2011" Pilates for Men DVD/Download. He launched his own complete online training program, "Sean's Vault," and has taught more than 5,000 group fitness classes. He has been featured in The Washington Post, Curious.com, Fox News, Pilates Style magazine, The Denver Post, Fit Bottomed Girls, The Broadway Blog, YoFitTV.com, and MyGeniusTrainer.com.