Online Course
This product is delivered online:
- Continuing education exam
- NOTE: The text Yoga for Runners, Second Edition, is required for successful completion of this exam but is not included in this version. Purchase this version only if you already own the text or ebook.
Consisting of 75 multiple-choice and true-false questions, this continuing education exam is designed to be taken after reading
Yoga for Runners, Second Edition. The exam will test your knowledge of the information presented in the book, so you can work with clients looking to improve their running through yoga.
Learning ObjectivesAfter reading the book and successfully completing the 75-question exam, you will be able to do the following:
- Describe the physical benefits of a yoga practice for runners.
- Identify the mental benefits of meditation for runners.
- Explain the difference between exercise that focuses on physical outcomes and exercise that incorporates a mind–body focus.
- Describe the basic structure and function of the spine, core, upper body, hips, hamstrings, knees, feet, and ankles.
- Identify yoga poses that are beneficial for the spine, core, upper body, hips, hamstrings, knees, feet, and ankles.
- Define restorative yoga.
- Demonstrate off-the-mat yoga poses.
- Explain the benefits of deep breathing for runners and how to breathe during yoga practice.
- Discuss how yoga can help prevent and alleviate running injuries.
Audience
Personal trainers, coaches, yoga teachers, and other certified fitness professionals who work with runners.
Author
With an extensive history as a long-distance runner and yoga instructor,
Christine Felstead has married her twin passions into a pioneering program for runners. She teaches yoga classes and workshops for runners and endurance athletes and is continually evolving her program to bring the best to runners—most recently expanding the strength component and incorporating functional mobility. Felstead’s Yoga for Runners teacher training program offers certification to instructors working in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. For additional information, visit
www.yogaforrunners.com.
Felstead presents regularly at international conferences and has produced two best-selling DVDs on yoga for runners and a six-episode educational series. She has been featured in numerous publications, including
Runner’s World,
Women’s Running,
Yoga Journal,
Women’s Health,
Library Journal,
Sweat Equity, and Canada’s
National Post. She resides in Toronto.