Hockey, football, baseball, golf, swimming, lacrosse – whatever your sport of choice, yoga will help you to improve focus, flexibility, and performance.
Power Yoga for Athletes is perfect for those who want a total body and mind workout. Yoga is the ideal cross-training tool and a perfect stand-alone exercise, whether you’re looking to improve balance, focus, control, breathing, posture, or flexibility; strengthen your back, joints, or core; or reduce or heal from injury.
Yoga benefits athletes of all types, helping you to improve your athletic prowess and hone new strengths. You’ll find many poses ideal for the sport of your choice, including:
Running
Swimming
Cycling
Golfing
Baseball
Basketball
Soccer
Football/rugby
Hockey
Tennis
Featuring more than 100 yoga poses from international fitness instructor Sean Vigue, Power Yoga for Athletes incorporates more than just poses. It describes a whole-body program for cross-training and conditioning. Each yoga pose features step-by-step directions, instructional photography, muscles being worked, overall benefits, and the sports for which each pose is ideal. Get the balance, strength, and focus you need to perform at your best.
“Talk about a perfect pitch! Sean Vigue has the moves, mojo, and motivation you need to reach that next level of fitness. His energy is contagious and his pipes are sublime. Go Sean, go!” – Brooke Siler, bestselling author and Pilates “trainer to the stars”
“Power yoga is a perfect example of functional training. [It] increases your flexibility, strength and balance in such a way that you will feel more in balance doing your everyday tasks. [This is] a well-written book by Sean Vigue that demonstrates exercises you can do wherever you like. [It is] filled with instructional tips for the best exercises power yoga has to offer you. I definitely recommend this book to my followers, whether they are gymnasts, martial artists, or non-athletes!” – Jerome Fishermen, JeromeFitness.com
“Sean is a talented and knowledgeable fitness instructor that I am proud to have had the privilege of working with. Beyond his technical skill and knowledge, he also has a personality that makes him easy to get along with, and helps him inspire everyone, regardless of age, skill level, or gender, to become active through yoga and Pilates. This book is going to be a standard for athletes that are interested in taking their game to the next level in non-traditional fitness areas.” – Dean Pohlman, owner Man Flow Yoga
“Sean teaches a challenging yet super fun yoga class. He is a master at what he does.” – Heather Kapande, owner Nick’s Pro Fitness in Evergreen, Colorado.
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93 reviews for Power Yoga for Athletes: More than 100 Poses and Flows to Improve Performance in Any Sport
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I love power yoga, but there isn’t a studio where I Iive. So- I’ve started leading my own classes or rather inviting people to join me in a public space. This book has helped me tremendously! It’s also the 6th or 5th yoga book I’ve recently purchased, so when I say it’s the best- I’ve been doing some buying and reading! I’m on a whole yoga education and I’ve concluded power yoga is my jam.
What I love:
1. photos with names (both) and instructions. Additionally, when poses are used in flows, there’s a page number a you can easily go back and find the asana/instructions/names/cues/photos. Also muscle diagrams (target points)- neat addition.
2. Many fun flows from easy warm ups to intense power workouts. All sequences have the photos .
3. There isn’t a bunch of BS text about the author and their journey… it’s a yoga book and that’s it.
4. Buy it. I’ve already dog eared the crap out of this book and included flows in my sequences.
5. Winner winner - great for anyone, don’t be to be a yogi to appreciate it. It’s also fairly slim and small, which is surprising with how dense it is. Namaste
Easy to understand and easy to follow along.
We have this book and his other Pilates for athletes book.
Both are great.
Highly recommend for any athlete :)
I first encountered Sean Vigue's practice on the internet 5 months ago, and I was less experienced and less strong than a beginner. I never imagined that, 5 months later, this book would become part of my daily routine. It is very accessible, detailed, and gradually challenges you at your own pace. It brings a sense of accomplishment and challenge that is both engaging and humbling.
Thanks to the poses and the sequences, I experience and feel positive changes inside out and outside in, in every inch and fiber of muscles I never felt before. I have become much more flexible, open, ambitious, and peaceful, in my daily life as well as in my my running routine: I am running faster, longer, and more efficiently; I am able to increase my mileage more efficiently and more safely, and even more often than before. Even when I play tennis, I feel much stronger, vigilant, and body feels "sharp", yes! I never would have thought I would use these words to describe myself! All thanks to this book and to Sean.
I cannot imagine my daily life without it, and I already pre-ordered the Pilates for Athletes book.
All you need is this book, and some stretchy clothes!
This book can be used in many ways. 1) You can research and build your own flows. 2) You can use the flows that are written into the back of the book, and you can build your competence and understanding by researching each move. 3) You can use the sports classifications to develop flows based on the recommendations of Coach Vigue.
Any way you look at it, this book is foundational for people that want to unplug from the internet, and get into yoga in a deeper way.
Usually, I insert 1-2 flows from this book into my (almost daily) practice and enjoy it a lot! It makes me stronger and fitter but most of all - happy
For the past 6 months I have been doing yoga / pilates with a bunch of people in the office using his videos and they are fantastic. His irreverance and enthusiasm make every session enjoyable. And my back has massively improved, along with my flexibility. My only dissapointment from skimming through was that half the pics were of some other guy doing yoga?!
Thank you Sean.
It not only improve flexibility but also work on building your overall strength of the body.
Ty Devine
Sean has literally hundreds of videos on Youtube for free incl. a number of flows from the book so one can train along. Very helpful and enjoyable
Normal yoga doesn't really do it for me because while I appreciate the flexibility training, it doesn't incorporate enough strength moves for me to feel like I got a good workout in. I've been performing flows from this book 1x per week for the last couple of months and it has really made a big difference.
I notice I don't feel as beat up during the week anymore from all of my other training (trail runs, olympic lifting, martial arts). I attribute a lot of that to this book. I highly recommend it.
So if you like Sean's stuff, but this book, you won't regret!
d) bonus reason = no constant monologue! ;-)
The Runner's Guide to Yoga: A Practical Approach to Building Strength and Flexibility for Better Running (The Athlete's Guide)
You could argue that, in me, this wonderful book is preaching to the converted as I was already convinced of the benefits of yoga, but my previously skeptical, mad-cyclist husband has been using ‘Power Yoga for Athletes’ too, and is very excited about its potential to transform his fitness. The book demonstrates perfectly how yoga is ‘the ideal cross-training tool’, helping to overcome imbalances and asymmetries of muscle strength that many athletes may experience through conditioning in a discipline-specific way, and to develop balance, focus, flexibility – not to mention a stabilizing core strength – that help improve performance in any sport. The pose descriptions show the particular muscle groups that are activated, and indicate the sports best supported by each one – in addition, a training log at the back of the book lists the most beneficial poses by sport, allowing you to build up brand new sequences tailored to your own specific needs.
Sean's bright and engaging writing style coupled with the clear, intuitive layout make it so easy to access the excellent content, while the quality of the print and binding give the book a high-class feel that would make it an ideal gift for any athlete in your life! Five Stars, without a doubt!!
Power Yoga For Athletes offers fantastic visuals and an extremely accessible layout making it a great choice for both beginners who want to try out yoga for the first time as well as those who wish to progress and improve their existing yoga technique.
I’m a big fan of Sean’s YouTube instructional videos largely because he makes his workouts so accessible but also because he does such a great job of explaining precisely what you should be doing. I was really looking forward to seeing how his book would turn out and whether his unique style and humor would transcend to the written page.
Once I began flipping though Sean's book it immediately inspired me to roll out the yoga mat and get to work with some previously unattempted poses. It’s safe to say that his inimitable teaching methods and passion for yoga (and life itself) are ingrained in every page of Power Yoga, proving once again that Sean Vigue really is a master of his art.
If you're looking to reap all the benefits yoga has to offer, start with this book. Following Sean's instruction, the benefits of yoga will permeate every aspect of your life.