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Welcome to our new Yoga for Runners blog
By on 12/04/2011 17:20:18
In the first instalment of our new blog, Team RW takes up yoga in a bid to out-stretch injury.
blog. If you're a regular reader of this website or Runner's World magazine you'll know the importance of stretching and flexibility in helping to make you a better runner and ward off injury.After three years of on-off injury I decided that my new
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Nutrition Clinic: How to fuel a marathon
By Dr James Morton on 11/04/2013 11:18:24
In the lead up to the Virgin London Marathon, marathon nutrition is the theme for our brand-new nutrition blog.
Welcome to our brand-new nutrition blog, where Dr James Morton, Senior Sports Nutritionist for Science in Sport (SiS), will be giving advice on nutrition, dispelling fuelling myths and offering his tips every month. If you have a sports nutrition
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Yoga for Runners: Position 10 - Dandayamana Bibhaktapada Janushirasana
By Alexandra Rees on 25/10/2011 09:40:03
, 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
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Nutrition clinic: nitrates - the new performance booster?
By Dr James Morton on 08/05/2013 14:55:49
Welcome to our nutrition blog by Dr James Morton, Senior Sports Nutritionist for Science in Sport (SiS), where he will be giving advice on nutrition, dispelling fuelling myths and offering his tips every month. If you have a sports nutrition
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Yoga for Runners: Live webchat and a brilliant offer
By Alice Palmer on 04/05/2012 10:42:38
Quiz Bikram expert Olga Allon live in the forums today
Yoga for Runners blog, Bikram Yoga is a demanding (but highly rewarding!) series of 26 postures and breathing exercises practised in a heated room. Practising Bikram Yoga can help with injuries and weight loss, reduces blood pressure, improves posture
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Yoga for Runners: Position 17 - Poorna Salabhasana
By Kerry McCarthy on 08/02/2012 17:17:18
bunch on the whole – yes, I’m looking at you – but it also helps to combat loss of appetite.Olga Allon, Director of Hot Bikram Yoga, says: “By now, followers of this blog will know that the flexible runner is a rarely injured runner – and this stretch
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Yoga for Runners: Position 12 - Padangustasana
By Alexandra Rees on 22/11/2011 11:53:42
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
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Yoga For Runners: Position 3 - Utkatasana
By Alexandra Rees on 13/06/2011 11:19:21
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
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Yoga for Runners: Position 1 - Pranayama Breathing
By Alexandra Rees on 16/05/2011 10:37:05
The first in the Bikram yoga sequence - a dose of breathing that can help you run faster.
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
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Yoga for Runners: Position 2 - Arda-Chandrasana with Pada Hastasana
By Kerry McCarthy on 01/06/2011 17:27:37
So here it is, blog 4, and the second of the 26 Bikram poses. We're properly getting warmed up now - although not as warm as you'll be by the time you're halfway through the set. Dripping with sweat doesn't even begin to cover it, no matter how low
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