Use Yoga to Ease Stress
What do we know about the week ahead? Stress is likely. What can you do about it? You can take control of your mental state. Use these videos this week to ease stress with restorative yoga, breathing exercises, and meditation. We'll also use mental focus training from Work IN. Let's do this!
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Use Yoga to Ease Stress — Week Reset Plan
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Use yoga over the next week to ease stress and take control of your mental state in less than 10 minutes a day.
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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... -
Full Body Mobility
Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
Gently mobilize your body to increase fluidity to muscles, surrounding tissues, and joints to ease stiffness and restore range of motion. Use this routine to Work IN.
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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
- Suggested prop: wall -
Extended Exhalation Breath
Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
Lengthening your exhale has a profound calming effect on your nervous system, helping you to slow your heart rate and relax. Use this routine to Work IN.
Includes a pre/post practice check in — a pause to no... -
Balancing Breath
Set a tone of steadiness for the task ahead. This simple breath technique is calming and balancing — use it to start the day or pregame your workout or game/race.
- Focus: mental focus, balance
- When: pre- or post-workout
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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... -
Recovery Boost
Exclusive routine from Work IN: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results!
Relax deeply using static (still) postures, making use of the wall as a prop, to open the body and encourage deep physical and mental relaxation. Use this routine to Work IN.
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Evening Wind Down
Use this routine to wind down your day. Shift your focus into your body, restore fluidity to joints and key muscles, release any lingering tension, and transition to recovery.
- Focus: recovery
- Key muscles: wrists, spine, hamstrings, hips, shoulders
- When: evening
- Suggested prop: bolster o...
