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Morning Yoga Workouts - Zack Kurland
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Morning Yoga Workouts
by Zack Kurland
NEW, 232 pages
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About Morning Yoga Workouts
A yoga routine to fit every morning schedule! You know that exercising in the morning is the best way to maintain a regular exercise schedule, manage weight, and energize your day. Morning Yoga Workouts makes it easy to find a way no matter how you sleep, what your energy level is, and how much time you have to spare.
Nine workouts include light, moderate, and intense sessions that last for 15 to 20 minutes, 30 to 40 minutes, and 50 to 60 minutes at home or in a studio. Poses include an in-depth exploration of the sun salutations and the full range of yoga asana and breathing techniques, which appeal to all levels of yoga experience, for building strength and flexibility, improving postural alignment, and stabilizing the inner core.
Warm-up routines are included so you can use your yoga practice to prepare for other activities, and visualization and meditation mantras improve the mind-body connection. Nutrition advice helps you balance eating and hydration with energy upon waking, and tips to improve your environment make workouts even more effective and enjoyable. With Morning Yoga Workouts, you will never tire of your morning routine again.
Morning Yoga Workouts is part of the Morning Workout series, books designed to help you get in tune with both mind and body, stay motivated, and improve your morning exercise experience.
About Zack Kurland
Zack Kurland is a yoga therapist in New York City. He is a member of the teaching staff at OM yoga center, where he trains teachers in yoga therapy; is certified through the Heart of Yoga Association; and is a member of the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Kurland continues to educate himself in yoga therapy and Ayurveda in the United States and India. He has written articles for and been featured in Fit Yoga magazine and Yoga Journal.
Reviews of this book
“With all the popular styles of yoga, it can be challenging to understand what style of yoga is right for you. Morning Yoga Workouts outlines exactly what you need to do to achieve an authentic practice. Thank you, Zack, for this extremely useful book!”
Mark Whitwell
Author, Yoga of Heart
“The book is insightful and revealing in its exploration of mindfulness, and I can't wait to put into practice all I've learned from it.”
Valerie Smaldone
#1 Midday Host in New York Radio Market
"Morning Yoga Workouts has led me to exciting breakthroughs in my personal yoga practice. Zack's accessible approach taps into a heightened yoga experience that we all want in our daily lives.
This book is a must-have!"
Matt Goldman, founding member of the Blue Man Group
About Fitness
Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness (a state of health and well-being) and specific fitness (a task-oriented definition based on the ability to perform specific aspects of sports or occupations). Physical fitness is generally achieved through exercise.
In previous years, fitness was commonly defined as the capacity to carry out the day’s activities without undue fatigue. However, as automation increased leisure time, changes in lifestyles following the industrial revolution rendered this definition insufficient. These days, physical fitness is considered a measure of the body’s ability to function efficiently and effectively in work and leisure activities, to be healthy, to resist hypokinetic diseases, and to meet emergency situations.
Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health or wellness. It is performed for various reasons. These include strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance and for enjoyment. Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts the immune system, and helps prevent the "diseases of affluence" such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity. It also improves mental health, helps prevent depression, helps to promote or maintain positive self-esteem, and can even augment an individual's sex appeal or body image Childhood obesity is a growing global concern and physical exercise may help decrease the effects of childhood obesity in developed countries.
Types of exercise: exercises are generally grouped into three types depending on the overall effect they have on the human body. Flexibility exercises, such as stretching, improve the range of motion of muscles and joints. Aerobic exercises, such as cycling, swimming, walking, skipping rope, running, hiking or playing tennis, focus on increasing cardiovascular endurance. Anaerobic exercises, such as weight training, functional training or sprinting, increase short-term muscle strength.
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