How Yoga For Runners Helps You Find Balance & Run Better

The Fleet Feet Blog is full of helpful (and sometimes tasty!) information! A recent blog covered the benefits yoga can provide! #namaste

Let’s be honest: Running more isn’t always the best thing we can do for our bodies. As we build mileage, our hamstrings and calf muscles can grow taut while we ignore our core and other muscles. We start to believe more is always more, ignoring our body’s subtle (and not-so-subtle) complaints.

Lucky for us, yoga is a perfect complement to running. Everything that running tightens, yoga stretches. But yoga offers much more than just stretching.

“It’s about balance,” yoga instructor Sage Rountree says in a phone interview from her home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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