Yoga for Climbers: How to Stretch, Strengthen and Climb Higher

Yoga for Climbers: How to Stretch, Strengthen and Climb Higher By Nicole Tsong Yoga for Climbers will show you how to create a yoga practice at home that will keep you healthy, prevent injuries, and support and improve your outdoor passions. This guide features easy-to-understand yoga poses and sequences designed to address the specific stresses that climbing enacts on the body. This guide features: • Detailed overviews of the areas of the body most impacted by climbing and hiking • Injuries common to these sports that yoga can address • Explanation of yoga's physical and mental benefits, and how it can enhance time on rock or trail • Foundational techniques for creating a yoga practice, including the fundamentals of meditation • Several sequences for a home practice, designed specifically for climbers and hikers • Interviews with climbers and hikers who use yoga to support their physical strength and hone their mental focus—from professionals, such as Steph Davis and Buzz Burrell, to