Workouts For Runners: Yoga Stretches
This month’s installment of the super popular series Workouts For Runner’s is YOGA STRETCHES! If you run, then you know what it’s like to have the runner’s high. You relish in the feeling of running your fastest and farthest distance. You monitor your heart rate and your calories burned. Yoga is really the opposite of running, it forces you to slow down, to be still, to connect with your body on new levels.
Let’s face it, Yoga is amazing for runners.
One of my goals every year (and yes, it will be a goal for 2017) is to be better at yoga. I have never been the most flexible human, but I know what yoga does for me and how it challenges me so I am always looking to take it to the next level!
This month I am sharing Yoga Stretches from 5 of my favorite runner bloggers. Seeing all of these workouts is not only inspiring but confirmation that I need to be better and more consistent with my yoga practice. Here are some of my favorite yoga stretches to open up those tight hips!
Carly @ Fine Fit Day
Allie @ VITA Train 4 Life
Laura @ This Runner’s Recipes
Sarah @ Run Far Girl
Angela @ Happy Fit Mama
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If you run, do you do yoga stretches? Are you more of a cardio person, or a low key workout kind of person?
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<3 need <3 need.
I STILL CANNOT BELIEVE IM DOING A FULL IN APRIL.
Or that Ive finally gotten my ish together and a have created a yoga practice.
<3 need.
CARLA recently posted…Get into character for a healthy Halloween.
you are doing a full marathon in April?! OMG yay!
I loved doing this one because stretching is really so important but most runners don’t do it until something is wrong! Love that we’re spreading all the knowledge 🙂
Allie recently posted…Stretches for Every Runner – #WednesdayRoundUp
I keep saying I need to get more into yoga and have yet to in all honesty. So thank you for sharing all of the above and going to check out further now 😉
Janine HulDie recently posted…How to Date Your Spouse While Your Kids Are In School
I can’t run without regular yoga! (Or else things start to go downhill… Haha) Pigeon pose is a daily one for me!
Danielle recently posted…16 More Running & Life Lessons I Learned from Marathon Training
I have to make a deliberate effort to stretch – otherwise it doesn’t happen until I need to do it!
I am really active in running marathons- participated in 3 so far. I have been wanting to practice yoga classes lately but I am a little concerned. Some yoga positions I am not able to do because of a surgery I had 15 years ago.
Do you think if I informed a yoga instructor before starting classes, it would be ok? I just don’t want them to pick me out of the group if I am not bending far enough. Being corrected in public isn’t fun, especially if you have a medical condition that prevents you from doing some poses.
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Runners are often reluctant to try yoga, their most common fear is that they are not flexible enough. It is not uncommon for those attending their first Yoga for Runners class to ask whether the room will be filled with lithe and flexible bodies, in spite of the class being advertised.