, as well as other nasty side effects), this pose helps tone your abdominal area and your glute muscles.This pose also stretches out the hamstrings. Yes, we know - we bang on about tight hamstrings a lot on this blog - but as we're yet to meet a runner

As we mentioned in our previous blog, the second set of Tree is actually a different pose altogether, but you pick up the posture where you left off with Tree. Toe Stand (Padangustasana in Sanskrit- you really should be fluent by now) requires

Welcome to posture three of the 26 postures in the Bikram yoga series. This blog is brought to you from the sunny surroundings of South Beach, Miami, where your intrepid reporter is researching Bikram as practised over the pond and running up

Our first two blog posts introduced Bikram yoga, and now we're getting into the nitty-gritty of how the 26 specific postures in the Bikram sequence can improve your running performance.Practising yoga in the heat brings huge benefits

Alexandra Rees is a qualified sport and exercise scientist, ex-club runner and Bikram yoga devotee of six years, who can now touch her toes with sickening ease.Like Kerry McCarthy, who in our first blog admitted that he thought yoga was solely

't really compete with Kerry's last blog - this pose won't make you dynamite in the sack. However, it will give you thighs of steel and quite possibly knees so durable you can take the physio off speed-dial.This pose is all about learning to use your leg