This book was written to explain how the practicing yoga makes athletes better, with its emphasis on flexibility, balance and whole-body strength. It also discusses how yoga improves mental focus and endurance, which become especially important at the end of a training session or race. This book explains how athletes can see progress from just ten minutes of yoga each day. It includes 230+ color photographs of over 100 poses that target common areas of inflexibility and overuse; breath and meditation exercises; different types of yoga for each phase of training; recommendations for intensity and volume of yoga workouts throughout the training year.