Preface
Intro: Work in for the win
1 Rethink recovery
Slow down to speed up
Use your nervous system
Signs that you need to work in
How to work in to recover for real
2 Get your head right
Why meditate?
Flow on purpose
Make the most of stress
How to meditate
The tools
How to get started
Hurdle the barriers
Work in for mental focus: 4 breathing meditations, 3 mantra meditations, 3 visualizations, 4 sensation meditations
3 Recharge your body
Why do restorative yoga?
How to do restorative yoga
How to get started
Work in for physical relaxation: 17 poses to relax deeply, 10 poses to gently mobilize, 4 restorative yoga routines
4 The 28-day recovery plan
High fives
About the athletes
About the author
Work In shares new mental and physical recovery techniques for athletes who give it all in every workout. Yoga and recovery coach Erin Taylor gives athletes practical tools and an integrated plan for real recovery from trainingand everyday life. By making yoga and meditation easy for anyone, Taylor gives athletes a way to do recovery right. Just 5 minutes a day of "working in" can prime athletes for faster, fuller recovery and higher performance.
With unprecedented access to training data and workout bragging rights on social networks, athletes are doing everything they can to "win the workout" and keep pace with the athletes around them. Every athlete knows that training brings results, but workouts are only half the equation. Workouts tear the body down. Athletes must also "work in" to gain full recovery, when the body rebuilds for higher performance.
Taylor's Work In program brings real recovery to athletes wherever they areat home or on the trail, track, field, or court. Work In techniques can be performance anywhere with minimal or no props and can be easily incorporated into any training plan. Work In offers