Optimize Recovery
Stretch the boundaries of your potential with optimized recovery. Recovery is often the least planned and most underutilized tool to optimize performance. While it’s not automatic — you can activate recovery when you need it most and make a real impact in less than 5 minutes a day.
Use Athletes for Yoga the next 7 days to Optimize Recovery. When time allows, start each session with Recovery Visualization. Videos are in order from day 1 (How to Hit Reset Head to Toe) to day 7 (Relax Deeply). Remember you can download your own free A4Y Practice Plan to plan a full month. Share how it’s going with #athletesforyoga!
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Recovery Visualization
Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
If you are feeling resistance to giving recovery your full focus, remember that this is likely an unconscious habit rather than a choice. Especially in the times when you are struggling to transition from ef... -
How To Hit Reset Head to Toe
Sometimes, it feels like everything needs a Reset. Use this routine post-workout or on rest days to hit all the key areas and trouble spots, bringing more balance to your body from head to toe.
- Focus: recovery
- Key muscles: feet, calves, hamstrings, IT bands, hips, chest, shoulders
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Comprehensive Hip + Hamstring Reset
Use this comprehensive recovery routine for your hips and hamstrings to re-lengthen stiff hamstrings and restore hip range of motion. Enjoy the added bonus of easing low back pain and discomfort along the way. Includes Legs up the Wall and plenty of time for what's needed most post-workout: rest....
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How To Improve Sleep Meditation
If you're not sleeping well, you're not recovering as well as you could be. Use this short meditation to help you create space between the activities of your day and your rest, helping you ease into a better night's sleep.
- Focus: mental focus, recovery
- When: before bed
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Lily Partridge's Back Reset
Join professional British marathoner Lily Partridge for her Back Reset — a routine designed with and for Lily to restore a balance of mobility and stability to your spine, and ease low back stiffness and SI joint discomfort — in less than 15 minutes.
- Focus: recovery
- Key muscles: back, hips
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5-Minute Neck Reset
Neck tension is wasted energy. Use this quick Reset to ease strain and stiffness post-workout or wake up.
- Focus: injury prevention, recovery
- Key muscles: neck
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How To Kickstart Recovery
Get the most out of your training by intentionally transitioning from work to rest. Use this post-workout Reset to re-establish space in your body and restore fluidity, helping to kickstart recovery so that your hard work can be optimized.
- Focus: recovery
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Relax Deeply
Use props to support your body so that your tired muscles don't have to. This deeply relaxing Reset will ease overworked muscles and decrease any lingering tension in your system to optimize healing and recovery.
- Focus: recovery
- Key muscles: back, chest, shoulders, neck
- When: post-workout o...
