Add a few minutes of yoga after your workout to improve your strength, flexibility, and balance. This brief series of yoga poses will help to open your hips. If you have time, repeat the sequence once or more. No props are needed—not even a mat!—and you can practice barefoot or in training shoes.

Music for the episode is “Desert Journey,” by Solace, from the album The Gathering Season. It’s available at Magnatune.com.

Look for my book on yoga for endurance athletes, to be published by VeloPress in late 2007. I welcome your feedback and requests for future episodes: yogasage at mac dot com.