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Table of contents :
Becoming a Complete Martial Athlete
A Deeper Look into Yoga
A Deeper Look into BJJ
How the Yoga System Serves the Martial Athlete
How Will Yoga Help My Jiu-Jitsu Game?
Yoga Technique & Mechanics
Body Awareness, Breath Control, & Mind Refining
Yoga as a Skill
Yoga & Jiu-Jitsu — Yin & Yang
This Beautiful Art and Science
The Eight Limbs of Yoga
What the Fascia Do We Know?
Fascia = Stability, Flexibility and Strength
Our Organ of Form
The Fascia System in Martial Arts
The Mindful Heart and Spirit
Fascial Resilience and Fascial Armoring
Conditioning the Fascial Body
Healthy Fascia for a Healthy Body
The Posterior Chain
Structural Integrity of the Back
How Yoga helps the Posterior Chain
The Anterior Chain
The Front Supports the Back
What then is the Anterior Chain?
Creating Balance
The Importance of the Anterior Chain
How Yoga Helps Anterior Chain
The Lateral & Medial Chains
Myofascial Perpetuity
The Lateral Chain (LC)
The Medial Chain (MC)
How Yoga Helps the Lateral & Medial Chains
The Horizontal Plane
The Horizontal Plane
Rotational Training
How Yoga Helps Horizontal Plane
The Spiral Lane
The Web of the Human Body
What’s the Spiral Line?
Caring for Your Spiral Line
How Yoga Helps the Spiral Line
Functional Anatomy
The Musculoskeletal System
How Yoga Helps Functional Anatomy
A Coach’s and Athlete’s Guide
Your Profit and Progress On the Mat
Active vs. Passive Recovery
A Recovery Day
Pseudo-Recovery Programming
The 10 Minute Jiu-Jitsu Cool Down
What Every Proper Cool-Down Should Involve
Your 10 Minute Jiu-Jitsu Cool-down
The Optimal Yoga Class for Jiu-Jitsu
Why add the practice of Yoga to Jiu-Jitsu?
Your 50-Minute Yoga Class for Jiu-Jitsu
Programming Integration into Jiu-Jitsu Classes
Multi-Modality Integration
Jiu-Jitsu and Yoga: The Perfect Blend
Benefits of Incorporating Yoga into Jiu-Jitsu
Yoga for Competition Preparation
Compose the Nervous System
Yoga Calms Heightened Arousal
Balance Inner Calm and Inner Fire
Yoga Has a Dual Effect: Body and Mind
Sequence for Competition Preparation
On Cutting Weight
On the Day of the Competition
Competition Tactics
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