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The Runner's Yoga Book: A Balanced Approach to Fitness | 
 enlarge | Author: Jean Couch
Publisher: Rodmell Press
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 43966
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0962713813
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7046
EAN: 9780962713811
ASIN: 0962713813
Publication Date: June 1990
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Condition: Corners are bent on cover. Bayfront Books carefully selects the books it offers for sale on Amazon, and only includes those that are worthy of another read. While dust jackets may be missing and covers may show some damage, the contents are very readable... even in those books where previous owners had taken considerable notes or highlighting.
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Product Description
The Runner's Yoga Book is an ideal companion for the weekend or professional athlete, for the reader who wants to stretch and relax, and for the developing yoga student who wants to establish a home practice. Drawing on over thirty years of teaching and personal practice, author Jean Couch offers precise instruction in all types of poses, guidelines for home practice, yoga routines for other sports, including bicycling, skiing, swimming, tennis, and walking, a resource guide for further study, and a yoga-poses-by-alphabetical-listing index. With over 400 photographs and illustrations showing students at various levels of expertise, The Runner's Yoga Book is a complete guide for yoga students of all ages and most levels of fitness.
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 The Essence Is Lost In The Detail December 13, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I ordered this book, I thought I would be getting a concise and practical guide to yoga for general fitness. The opposite turned out to be the case. Hatha yoga is not rocket science. It's timeless appeal lies in it's simplicity, beauty, and effectiveness. Runners Yoga slices, dices, and analyzes hatha yoga down to the smallest bit, but completely misses the bigger picture. Think of cutting the Mona Lisa up on a perfect grid of 1" squares and spending a page analyzing each as a separate unit. Yoga is about unifying the body and should be presented in a unified way. I'm not some idealist, but from a purely pragmatic perspective, this book takes forever to get you to square one, if you don't quit first. One of the more basic yoga poses is the Sun Salutation- if you can run 100 yards you can do this. This book takes 160 out of 200 excessively detailed pages to get there. If you know nothing about yoga and want to approach it in a straight forward and effective manner, get Integral Hatha Yoga by Satchidananda, the 1970 classic that is unsurpassed in clarity, completeness, and simplicity. ISBN13# 978-0932040428
 Run fast and easy with Iyengar May 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great guide to Iyengar style and prevention plus therapeutical in its use. Before and after the practice it suggests , you'll find yourself running better and better... and then you know you can always get back to your mat! TITE, Brescia, Italy , an Iyengar Yoga Instructor and...runner!www.tite.it
The marketeer's yoga book ? April 26, 2003
9 out of 24 found this review helpful
Do not get fool by the title. There is absolutely nothing new on this book except the title which is aiming to take advantage of runners who may think this book can give us that extra edge in improving our skill.
If indeed any one of our fellow runners who are interested in yoga, check out the book of "Bikram's Beginning Yoga Class" instead. It outlines very clear pose by pose, classroom teaching, lecture type of instruction.
A Complete Introduction to Yoga Poses April 19, 2000
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
an excellent introduction to yoga asanas... i always find myself going back to this book when i am trying a new pose and want to learn the basics of the pose... a must for anyone who has a yoga library...
athletic awareness through yoga March 25, 2000
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book gave me the pragmatic and necessary anatomical reasoning behind yoga and its uses in training for; not only running, but other sports as well. As a yoga instructor, this is a great resource.
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