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May 5, 2009, 7:00 amwomenshealth

Bulletproof your body - and go longer and stronger than ever - with yoga

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If you're in a one-on-one love affair with your sport, do yourself a favour: start fooling around with yoga. Sure, running, biking, swimming and weight lifting are far superior to yoga when it comes to kilojoule busting. But you're constantly using the same muscles, leaving some exhausted and others neglected entirely. The result: overworked muscles that feel the way you do after a bad day at work - tight and ready to pop - and underworked ones in a three-wine-lunch stupor. Yoga, on the other hand, stretches and strengthens every muscle group. We're not saying you should trade in your running shoes for a sterling silver om on a leather necklace - but you'll see tremendous results if you supplement your workout with just 15 minutes of yoga during your warm-up or cool-down. After all, yoga doesn't just correct imbalances; all that stretching and breathing also boosts oxygen flow to your muscles, letting you run longer, pedal faster and play harder. These 12 moves will maximise your performance so you can stay in play and out of the chiro's office.

SWIMMING

LIFTING

RUNNING

CYCLING

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