Namaste for National Yoga Month

September is National Yoga Month, so how about celebrating with some stretching with a Warrior Pose?

I love yoga, but any runner can appreciate the value it adds to his/her training. Yoga helps strengthen and lengthen muscle groups and minimize chances of injury. With the aid of yoga, runners can increase core strength and improve overall performance. Plus, adding yoga to a rest day following a long run will help with recovery.

If yoga is not part of your work-out routine, I highly recommend that you try it for the next 30 days for National Yoga Month to see if you notice an improvement in your performance.

To honor National Yoga Month, many yoga studios are offering a free trial class or even one free week, however, if you can’t find a studio, try the following video segments from a DVD entitled Yoga for Runners produced by MommYoga.

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***Thanks to my BFF Running Betty for sending me the tweet about National Yoga Month. 😉

About the author

Denise

From start to finish, Denise is Run DMT, a Tampa Bay homeschooling mom on the run trying to maintain an easy pace through it all between races and raising three beautiful, brilliant children (ages 19, 15, 10). In 2007, I discovered a passion for running and in February 2015, I completed my tenth marathon, however, I continue to train for a variety of races. In my spare time, I founded Tampa Bay Bloggers, a hyperlocal blogging network.

3 comments

RunningBetty says: 8 September, 2009 at 10:23 pm

you’re welcome. I also downloaded a Yoga For Runners routine from Yoga Downloads and do that in the back of the room when Wendy has Karate with my Yoga Paws and headphones on.

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