Work In: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results

Work In: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results

by Erin Taylor
Work In: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results

Work In: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results

by Erin Taylor

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781937715779
Publisher: VeloPress
Publication date: 01/11/2018
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 6.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Erin Taylor is an international yoga coach, writer, and recovery expert. She is the founder of Athletes for Yoga, the only athlete-led, on-demand video platform and app that puts yoga into the context of sport and well-being goals. Erin is the author of Hit Reset and Work IN.

For 20 years she has coached professional athletes, everyday runners, pre- and post-natal women, office workers, and anyone looking to integrate practices that enhance well-being and performance. In her newsletter, Balance Practice, she offers practical tools to inspire and support mental and physical balance.

Table of Contents

Preface

Intro: Work in for the win

1 Rethink recovery

Slow down to speed up

Use your nervous system

Signs that you need to work in

How to work in to recover for real

2 Get your head right

Why meditate?

Flow on purpose

Make the most of stress

How to meditate

The tools

How to get started

Hurdle the barriers

Work in for mental focus: 4 breathing meditations, 3 mantra meditations, 3 visualizations, 4 sensation meditations

3 Recharge your body

Why do restorative yoga?

How to do restorative yoga

How to get started

Work in for physical relaxation: 17 poses to relax deeply, 10 poses to gently mobilize, 4 restorative yoga routines

4 The 28-day recovery plan

High fives

About the athletes

About the author

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