Women's Fitness Guide

We all want to look and feel our best, so our Women's Fitness series provides you with your own personal trainer in bookazine form. Each edition focuses in on one aim, using expert advice from fitness professionals and nutritionists to help you reach your goals. You could try out the Women's Guide to Running, the Best Body Bootcamp, Tone up in Ten Minutes, Get Your Body Back – and numerous other titles all dedicated to helping you feel fitter and healthier at your own pace.

WELCOME

MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK • Can’t wait to get fit with yoga? Read these instructions first to get maximum benefits from your guide

YOGA EXPLAINED • Originating in India, yoga is thousands of years old. Designed to unite body and mind, it aids the body’s flexibility, strength and stamina

YOGA SPEAK • YOUR BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO YOGA TERMINOLOGY

FITNESS BENEFITS • Yoga will help improve your flexibility, strength and concentration, give you more stamina and help you balance

BURN FAT WITH YOGA • It may not sound the most obvious way to lose weight, but you’d be surprised how yoga can help…

LOOK AND FEEL LEANER

FIT FOR YOUR SPORT • Yoga is hugely beneficial for improving performance in all sports. Flexibility, better conditioning, greater core strength and a calmer mindset are just a few of the ways in which it can help…

INJURY PREVENTION

SUPPORT YOUR PRACTICE • Ready to begin? Follow these tips to get the most out of your yoga sessions

TOP KIT

BREATHING • Learning how to breath correctly is the foundation of your yoga practice. Here’s how to do it

THE SEQUENCES

PREPARE TO PRACTISE • Just as you warm up before a gym workout, it’s vital to prepare your body for your yoga sessions

WARM UP

HIGH-INTENSITY SEQUENCE

STRENGTH SEQUENCE

RELAX SEQUENCE

CORPSE

CHILD’S POSE

EXTENDED MOUNTAIN

TREE

FORWARD BEND

WIDE LEGGED FORWARD BEND

SEATED FORWARD BEND

HAPPY BABY

CAT/COW

CORE STRENGTHENERS

PLANK

SIDE PLANK

COBRA

DOLPHIN PLANK

SPHINX ROLL-UPS

TABLE

DOWNWARD DOG

3-LEG DOWNWARD DOG

LOW LUNGE

HIGH LUNGE

WARRIOR 2

HALF MOON

INTENSE SIDE STRETCH

LOCUST

BOW

PRONE WITH DOUBLE ARM LIFTS

PIGEON

SUPINE SPINAL

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Women’s Fitness Guide