As a rookie ultra runner I have tried to find a program to get ready for my second Ultra race in May and there was Yoga and Pilates and of course I wondered what these two trainings would give me as a ultra runner. I believe these are good for any runner. So after some searching on the internet I felt that Yoga is w.orth giving it a try.<\/p>\n
Last week I tested YinYoga which I believe is good to do early in the morning. Today I tested Poweryoga. The aim is to get to Poweryoga 2 but first you need to learn the positions so I went to Poweryoga 1.<\/p>\n
I got myself a mat and a blanket, this time I had my socks on from the beginning and I did not take them off when we were told to take our socks off (I didn’t take them off out of protest, just because I got cold feet last time and wanted to keep my feet warm).<\/p>\n
So first we sat down in a lotus<\/strong> pose and just breathed.<\/p>\n After that we were doing Salute to the sun 1 (<\/strong>solh\u00e4lsning 1) and Salute to the sun 2 (<\/strong>solh\u00e4lsning 2). <\/strong>At YinYoga we only did Salute to the sun 1.<\/p>\n The other poses we did was the cat<\/strong> (katten), the dog<\/strong> (hunden), was at YinYoga too, Cobra<\/strong> (kobra), also at YinYoga. The cobra<\/strong> showed up in the combo poses and after a while you could choose between doing the cobra<\/strong> or upward dog<\/strong> (upp\u00e5tg\u00e5ende hund). We also did the dog<\/strong> with one foot up in the air.<\/p>\n Then we also tried Warrior 1 <\/strong>(krigaren 1)\u00a0and Warrior 2<\/strong> (krigaren 2)<\/p>\n Other poses were the dove (duvan) and the lizzard , butterfly (also at YinYoga), child pose (also at YinYoga) and happy Child (also at YinYoga).<\/p>\n The Yoga plank\u00a0<\/strong> was also a pose (also at YinYoga).<\/p>\n The boat<\/strong> was a new yoga pose for me. The boat (b\u00e5ten) ) is one of my core exercises and then the butterfly (fj\u00e4rilen).<\/p>\n Last was just to breathe and lay on the mat.<\/p>\n Of all the yoga exercises I have done so far I Believe that Poweryoga is something that would be good to do regularly as a runner but Poweryoga 2 (some of these poses today I did at the yoga class we had with Coach K Runners this summer) but there were also balance and power poses.<\/span><\/p>\n Then I have to decide if I should do Pilates or Core regularly<\/span>. Which one is best for me.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a rookie ultra runner I have tried to find a program to get ready for my second Ultra race in May and there was Yoga and Pilates and of course I wondered what these two trainings would give me as a ultra runner. I believe these are good for any runner. So after some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[72,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabbychallenge.glundh.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}