Hi there swimmers!
Want to improve your position in the water?
Refine your stroke?
Reduce injuries?
Or, if you’re a newer swimmer do you want to feel stronger and more confident in the water?
Maybe increase your swim fitness?
This FREE download will help…
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Hi there! I’m Bridget – Yoga teacher and swimmer.
I love early morning ocean swimming – it’s hands down the best way to stay fit and connect with mother nature in all her splendour. My yoga practice helps me to stay strong, confident and injury-free in the water.
I’d love to share it with you…
Iyengar yoga’s precision will teach you how to hold your body, how it should feel. The postural instructions translate directly over to your swimming stroke, so you will learn how to position and stabilise your body in the water.
Yoga will help you to gain mobility of joints – that will reduce injuries, help to streamline yourself in the water and reduce drag.
With the increased body awareness yoga will give you, the conscious placement and movement of joints and muscles, your swimming will become effortless and you’ll be able to glide right through the water.
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Injury prevention begins with conscious correct movement. Iyengar yoga’s precise instructions will have you super aware of how your body is moving, and how it should be moving. How it feels and how it should feel. Even small adjustments to muscle length and strength will help control the movement of joints, stabilising them to reduce repetitive injuries.
We’ve already talked about the increased body awareness yoga will give you. Yoga uses many different asanas or body positions to help you build sensitivity to your body and how it works, how it feels. How you place your body in yoga asana will transfer over to your position in the water, you’ll be able to link the feeling of your body in the asana to the feeling of your body in the water. The position of different body parts in relationship to one another, which one has to work, which one has to release for optimal positioning.
The increased flexibility that yoga brings will enable you to be long and streamlined in the water, to stretch out that little bit further. Working on the range of movement of all joints will decrease drag in the water, so your movements are smoother and more efficient.
Regulating the breath is a huge part of swimming. Swimmers generally have good breath control and lung capacity already, but the addition of some pranayama or yogic breathing exercises can enhance that and help give you that little bit of extra stamina. Pranayama practice is particularly helpful for beginners to improve lung capacity.
If you’re new to swimming, yoga is a fantastic way to build strength and confidence in the water. It will help you improve coordination and body awareness, to enable you to maintain a balanced position in the water. Improved flexibility makes it easier to extend your stroke and kick efficiently, gradually building up your stamina. Plus, yoga can reduce the mental barriers that beginners face, helping you stay relaxed, focused, so you enjoy your time in the water.
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