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Work In: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results: The Athlete's Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results
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
Erin Taylor’s Work In will help athletes balance working out with working in so they can close the gap between where they are and where they want to be.
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
Erin Taylor’s Work In will help athletes balance working out with working in so they can close the gap between where they are and where they want to be.
- GenresNonfictionFitness
208 pages, Paperback
First published January 9, 2018
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About the author
Erin Taylor
20 books3 followersErin Taylor is an international leader in yoga for athletes and founder of Jasyoga, a revolutionary approach to yoga for athletes. Her mission is to help as many athletes as possible use yoga to achieve their goals, and become more balanced and resilient along the way. She shares her approach in Hit Reset: Revolutionary Yoga for Athletes and Work In: The Athlete’s Plan for Real Recovery and Winning Results.
It was her own experience of being sidelined by injury as a collegiate basketball player that first showed her how yoga can be the “Reset” that brings athletes back into balance. Erin founded Jasyoga to equip athletes with powerful skills to prevent injuries and enhance recovery, optimizing performance in sport and life. Over the last decade, she has infused meditation, functional anatomy, and physical therapy techniques into her practice. Now accessible anytime, anywhere via her online video platform and Hit Reset and Work In books, Erin’s approach has been widely embraced by athletes ranging from recreational to elite, and can be configured to help anyone achieve their goals.
In addition to privately coaching sports teams and athletes, she hosts yoga-for-athletes certification programs and writes a popular blog at jasyoga.com/blog. She lives in London with her husband and daughter.
It was her own experience of being sidelined by injury as a collegiate basketball player that first showed her how yoga can be the “Reset” that brings athletes back into balance. Erin founded Jasyoga to equip athletes with powerful skills to prevent injuries and enhance recovery, optimizing performance in sport and life. Over the last decade, she has infused meditation, functional anatomy, and physical therapy techniques into her practice. Now accessible anytime, anywhere via her online video platform and Hit Reset and Work In books, Erin’s approach has been widely embraced by athletes ranging from recreational to elite, and can be configured to help anyone achieve their goals.
In addition to privately coaching sports teams and athletes, she hosts yoga-for-athletes certification programs and writes a popular blog at jasyoga.com/blog. She lives in London with her husband and daughter.
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January 25, 2018
If you follow me on any social media outlet, especially Instagram, you've probably noticed my appreciation of Erin Taylor's work as founder and head coach of Jasyoga; I began practicing with her virtually, through Jasyoga Video, in 2015 and can no longer imagine life without this resource.
In May 2016, Erin published her first book, Hit Reset (my review here), which has proven to be an excellent companion to the video library; I was delighted to learn of her plans to publish a new book this year and immediately pre-ordered a copy.
As Erin states in a recent blog post, "it's easy to get trapped in the oversaturation of the stress of your training (and work, life...), leaving your mind and body in a constant fight mode." The goal of Work IN is "to teach your body to stop fighting when the fight is over, to rest, and to recover for real so that you can absorb your effort and come back stronger."
The book is presented in four sections: Rethink Recovery - signs that we need to slow down, when to stop, what effective recovery looks like; Get Your Head Right - how to meditate, a game plan for incorporating it into a busy schedule, mental focus and breath awareness; Recharge Your Body - restorative yoga and a series of yoga practices (with fantastic descriptions and photos!) that are customizable and easy to follow; and The Plan: Recover for Real - a 28-day program for bringing all of this together in the time you have available each day.
This is not a book that is limited to athletes, or even "weekend warriors;" this is a book for everyone. We all need a reminder to slow down, to grab time for self-care and reflection, and to utilize the opportunities available to optimize all activities of daily living. To download a free preview, follow this link and click the Download Free Preview button at the bottom of the page. I look forward to completing all 28 days of Erin's plan, over and over again, and encourage everyone to do the same!
In May 2016, Erin published her first book, Hit Reset (my review here), which has proven to be an excellent companion to the video library; I was delighted to learn of her plans to publish a new book this year and immediately pre-ordered a copy.
As Erin states in a recent blog post, "it's easy to get trapped in the oversaturation of the stress of your training (and work, life...), leaving your mind and body in a constant fight mode." The goal of Work IN is "to teach your body to stop fighting when the fight is over, to rest, and to recover for real so that you can absorb your effort and come back stronger."
The book is presented in four sections: Rethink Recovery - signs that we need to slow down, when to stop, what effective recovery looks like; Get Your Head Right - how to meditate, a game plan for incorporating it into a busy schedule, mental focus and breath awareness; Recharge Your Body - restorative yoga and a series of yoga practices (with fantastic descriptions and photos!) that are customizable and easy to follow; and The Plan: Recover for Real - a 28-day program for bringing all of this together in the time you have available each day.
This is not a book that is limited to athletes, or even "weekend warriors;" this is a book for everyone. We all need a reminder to slow down, to grab time for self-care and reflection, and to utilize the opportunities available to optimize all activities of daily living. To download a free preview, follow this link and click the Download Free Preview button at the bottom of the page. I look forward to completing all 28 days of Erin's plan, over and over again, and encourage everyone to do the same!
December 22, 2017
Loved the meditation focus!
July 19, 2023
Like so many others in this genre, this book contains far less content than the page count would imply, and seems, at times, desperate to meet a page minimum by leaving pages half full, even when they don't have images to stuff into the whitespace.
The use of "work in" is used from the start as if its a known term and I was initially awaiting a definition that would never come. Speaking of definitions, this book includes several that are totally useless ("Connective Tissue = Tissue that connects" was particularily funny to me).
That all being said, I do think there is some value to the practices outlined in this book, and the mobility exercises included a couple new positions which seemed valuable. The calendar at the end was a nice addition as well.
While I don't think there's necessarily a downside to including meditative practice and focussed rest to one's routine, I would be interested to have seen some literature referenced to back up Taylor's claims about PNS stress.
The use of "work in" is used from the start as if its a known term and I was initially awaiting a definition that would never come. Speaking of definitions, this book includes several that are totally useless ("Connective Tissue = Tissue that connects" was particularily funny to me).
That all being said, I do think there is some value to the practices outlined in this book, and the mobility exercises included a couple new positions which seemed valuable. The calendar at the end was a nice addition as well.
While I don't think there's necessarily a downside to including meditative practice and focussed rest to one's routine, I would be interested to have seen some literature referenced to back up Taylor's claims about PNS stress.
June 7, 2020
Good practical plan
Good ideas on practical implementation on what do to when trying to recover. Good pictures to assist in overviews if what to do.
Good ideas on practical implementation on what do to when trying to recover. Good pictures to assist in overviews if what to do.
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May 14, 2018I mean yes, but also. maybe more tailoring to the kind of sport you do?
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