Stretch it out with yoga

While running is great for outdoor aerobic fitness, striking some yoga poses at home brings extra balance.

WANT to keep running injuries at bay? Try striking a pose with yoga. Yoga is particularly good for helping to rebalance a runner’s body and protect it against the repetitive strain of pavement pounding. But often it’s hard to find the time to do an hour’s yoga class on top of all your regular running sessions, too.

However, if you want to keep niggles down to a minimum, and make your runs far more enjoyable and pain-free, then the stretching, strengthening and lengthening aspects of yoga are definitely worth investing in. Lexie Williamson, author of Yoga For Runners, has put together this sequence — that’ll take under 15 minutes to complete in the comfort of your own home — to make sure you’re getting the most out of your yoga session.