Yoga for Marathoners
Use yoga to optimize your marathon training. From week one to race week, marathon training has unique demands aimed to keep you balanced precariously between fit and fatigued. Each collection here was created to keep you building consistent mileage and intensity with the balance of pre-hab, strength, rest, and recovery. Plus there are 3 week-long plans for arguably the most strategic phases of training: Peak Week, your biggest mileage and intensity week, where time dwindles but recovery is imperative as well as Taper and Race Week.
-
Plan: Peak Week
8 items
This 7-day plan to use yoga during Peak Week, your biggest mileage and intensity week, will prioritize daily pre-hab and recovery in less than 20 total! Because every marathoner knows that during Peak Week time dwindles but pre-hab, recovery, and sleep is essential. With this Peak Week Yoga Plan ...
-
Plan: Marathon Taper
8 items
Tame your taper tantrums and optimize your weeks of hard training with strategic recovery, mental focus practice, and deeply restorative yoga. Use the extra time you'd be logging miles to put your legs up the wall or use a gentle mobility video. Let go of everything you can't control, the hay is ...
-
Plan: Race Week(end)
11 items
It's marathon race week! And we have your 7-day taper plan for race week. [Read on and scroll all the way down for day by day notes.] The hay is the barn, the forecast is set, you're primed and ready. You may be feeling the buzz of extra energy during this last week of taper, or you might feel le...
-
Yoga for Marathon Training
10 items
Use 26.2 Training to optimize your marathon training. The marathon has unique demands, and your training is aimed to keep you balanced precariously between fit and fatigued. As your mileage increases your available time to for pre-hab and recovery (ironically) shrinks. While creating 26.2 Trainin...
-
Quick Warm Ups + Strength for Marathoners
11 items
Marathoners are time poor for strength work — until knee injuries or hamstring strains flare up.
Use these videos to activate and strengthen key muscles daily. Don’t run without them!
-
Lily Partridge
3 items
Lily Partridge is one of the UK's fastest marathoners. Lily is professional runner for ADIDAS living and training in London. She holds a marathon PR of 2:29 and has her sights on the 2020 Olympic Team. She started using yoga to recover from an ongoing low back imbalance, and created this collecti...