Advice to improve your movement, fitness, and overall health from the world's #1 in orthopedics.
Yoga for Runners: How to Use Yoga to Improve Your Runs
HSS physical therapist Cara Ann Senicola shares how yoga can help runners improve their performance and offers a quick yoga-based warmup for runners of all levels.
Advice to improve your movement, fitness, and overall health from the world's #1 in orthopedics.
HSS physical therapist Cara Ann Senicola, PT, DPT, OCS, USATF-L1, CYT, understands runners’ hesitancy to slip off their running shoes and step onto the yoga mat. She was an avid runner long before she tried yoga, and her favorite distance today is still the half-marathon. But once she learned more about how yoga could improve breathing, running form, mobility, balance, and recovery, she was sold. “I realized yoga is such a nice marriage of how the body moves and what it needs to heal,” explains Senicola, who is now a certified yoga teacher.
Here, she unpacks each of these unique benefits—and offers some simple ideas for weaving yoga into your running routine. (See her “yoga flow” warmup video and post-run cooldown stretches at the end of this article.)
Published 6/15/2021
