Do you even yoga?
Timehop happily reminds me each day in May that I started doing yoga (much more regularly than I ever had previously) two years ago.
Unfortunately I haven’t been anywhere near as regular in my practice over this past year as I was in 2014 BUT lately I have been incorporating much more yoga into my training schedule to help alleviate the tightness in my legs from running. However, I’ll openly admit that I tend to wait until I get to that point where every step on a run is noticeably sore (like last night when my shins felt like they were on fire) until I roll and mobilise.
I do however know that if I kept things under control (mobility wise) that I’d have much less problems with my knees SO I’m going to make a much more conscious effort to keep my yoga days as sacred as my run days have become.
I keep things pretty simple – There are a couple of yoga instructors on YouTube that I really like, they are Erin Motz – Bad Yogi (who I have to thank for getting me started back in 2014 through the DoYouYoga 30 Day Yoga Challenge) and Adriene Mishler – Yoga with Adriene.
Depending on who I feel like hanging out with I’ll search their channel with something along the lines of “yoga for runners” or alternatively I’ll just scroll through their video list and select a class that resonates with me. This morning none of the running specific classes jumped out at me until I came across “Yoga for for the Feet” (Yoga with Adriene) – perfect!
After all, if you’re a runner, your feet are pretty important and because I heel strike when I run the top of my foot is always UBER tight to the point where it becomes tender to touch.
![yogaforthefeet](http://i.imgur.com/N2iY9mn.jpg)
Yoga to keep your feet happy
FYI the stretch in the main photo is AMAZING for the top of your foot! Incidentally the photo above (on the left) is a pose that I first came across in Pregnancy Yoga, we’d all have to get into that position and hold it (for about 10 years – ok ok, it was probably minutes BUT it felt like years), I recall the teacher saying “Yes I know it hurts, but honestly this is nothing compared to being in labor” LOLOLOL. From what I recall we had to sit in that pose for a long period of time to learn how to breathe through pain, because we were going to push babies out of our bodies – which would, well you know, hurt …
The particular class itself is only 30 minutes long which is cool as it means that I could tack onto the end of a training session as part of cool down. This morning I just did another short lower back and hip opening class afterwards because I had the time.
![yogaforme](http://i.imgur.com/RPzBHqw.jpg)
Yoga that keeps me happy
In case you’re wondering – the “pregnancy pose” still hurts although no where near as much as when I had a gigantic baby bump weighing me down. 😉
Till next time