Outdoors Oriented Winter 2013

Winter 2013 Inside

- New Winter Clothing & Footwear - Lole Yoga - Kuhl-est Pants - Baselayer Central - New Gear & Roof Racks - Snowshoe Zone - December Hours

Proterra Mid GTX

Principia Jacket & Stretchstone Flannel

Revolvr Pant

From cotton canvas to stretch nylon and everything in between, Kuhl has a pant for everyone. Check out our expanded selection including short, regular and long inseam lenghts.

Outkast $79.95

Liberator $94.95

Revolvr $74.95

Rydr $79.95

Slackr $84.95

Viper Belt $17.95

Stretch Bedford Jacket $109.95 Leadville Flannel $84.95

Pipeline Jean $89.95

Kamuela $174.95

Bern Baby Bern $199.95

Tivoli High $169.95

Paisley Pointelle $9.95

Winterberry Mid $129.95

Simply Stripe $10.95 Inline Crew $9.95

Joan of Arctic $179.95

Snowbreaker Tall $189.95

Wreck Mid Gtx $169.95

Flur Isle $23.95

1964 Pac Graphic $119.95

Sassy Split Stripe $27.95 PhD Outdoor Medium Crew $26.95

Raith Low Event $109.95

Arctic Parka $399.95

Beta Port $109.95

Cyber Port $109.95

Janey II $189.95

Scope Graphic $74.95

Alpha SL Hybrid $379.95

Adrenaline Glove $64.95

Gamma SK Pant $224.95

Delta $159.95

Quantum hood $199.95

Warm Top $89.95

I Glow Yoga Mat $34.95

Megan Top $54.95

Warrior Tank $59.95

Lively Pant $104.95

Motion Legging $79.95

Trek Sport $99.95

Proud to offer Yoga and Activewear from Lole

New for this Fall we’ve introduced an expanded collection of Lole clothing including many pieces from their Yoga collection. The response has been fantastic and ladies are loving the fit, material, colours and quality that Lole has to offer.

Yoga for Athletes Training for sport can create muscular imbalances within your body. Athletes are trained to strive to be better, faster and stronger, and in pursuit of excellence tend to focus on the muscles that most directly improve performance. Each sport has its own body bias, and well-intentioned participants can inadvertently set themselves up for injury by failing to find balance between those muscle groups that get overused and underused in their sport of choice. Imbalance that goes unchecked frequently leads to injury. Most people carry a bodily imbalance of some sort: Upper to lower body (running or kayaking), side to side (tennis, rowing), front to back body (cycling).

The practice of yoga revolves around restoring balance and can be a valuable tool in helping a physically active person stay active.

by

Amanda Tripp

How Yoga Helps Yoga helps people to live better in their bodies by calling attention to inefficient body habits and establishing a more effective way of being in the world, physically and mentally. Regular practice systematically develops strength, flexibility, balance and focus. A consistent practice will help you to become more balanced in your body and in your approach to work and rest.

A well-rounded, thoughtful yoga practice will teach you to slow down and identify your own imbalances and to correct them. A well-rounded practice will include standing postures, back bends, forward folds, side bends, spinal rotations, arm balancing, abdominal strengthening and inversions – to balance your body from top to bottom, front to back and side to side. A con-

sistent practice that addresses the entire body will diminish muscular imbalances created through your sport.

If you have short, tight hip flexors (runners, cyclists, kayakers take note), a yoga practice that includes lunging and back-bending poses will help to restore the balance of strength and flexibility required for healthy, balanced range of motion in the hips. Arm balancing and core strengthening practices can begin to correct imbalances in strength between the upper and lower body, and so on.

Balancing Work and Rest For athletes, hard workout days and recovery days are both a necessary part of the training. The body needs to be subjected to stress (training) in order to grow stronger and faster, but it is during the rest and recovery phase of training that the body adapts to the stressors.

This is the ‘yin’ and ‘yang’ of training.

Be sure that your rest and recovery periods are in proportion to the strain with which you train.

Yoga can be an important part of your recovery strategy. As you approach the peak in your training schedule, make time for a practice that emphasizes rest and recovery. In Restorative yoga, you give your nervous system a break from the stresses of training, and offer yourself the opportunity to relax, refresh and recover.

Balanced Effort A skilled teacher can also help you to identify those unconscious responses to physical stress that waste energy and

decrease efficiency. When you’re practicing on your yoga mat, notice whether you’re exerting more effort than you need to in order to accomplish a pose and whether your shoulders hike up or your jaw and fists clench in response to physical stress. As you become more ‘self aware’, you can adapt to spend your energy more wisely, waste less energy and move more efficiently. This skill is naturally transferred into physical sport.

Balancing Competition with Pleasure If you’re competitive by nature, you may bring your sense of competition to your yoga mat as well – the familiar urge to perfect, to push further and to be the best may surface – pushing too hard in yoga practice can undermine your other training goals. See if you can use your yoga practice as an opportunity to practice turning on the ‘off switch’ on your drive to be the best and find the balance between pushing yourself physically and movement just for the pleasure of it.

On the surface, yoga and competitive sport may seem at odds with each other.

While sport emphasizes doing more and pushing harder, yoga emphasizes quieting, resting and stillness. Yoga and sport both use the physical body but in very different ways and towards very different ends. It’s this difference that makes yoga the perfect compliment to athletic training. A consistent yoga practice can help correct imbalances created by your training and bring balance to your training schedule.

- Amanda Tripp is an E-RYT 200 and instructs at Yoga By Sarah in St. Catharines.

OFFERING 65 WEEKLY YOGA CLASSES Try your first month for ONLY $39 + HST*

* New clients only

• Hot Yoga • Hatha Yoga • Vinyasa Flow Yoga • Restorative Yoga

• Gentle Yoga • Prenatal Yoga • Baby & Mom Yoga • Aerial Yoga • Pilates

Classes for Beginners & Seasoned Practitioners

See our full schedule online

20 Grote St., St. Catharines (across from Fairview Mall, behind Dairy Queen) • 905-682-4469 • www.yogabysarah.com

Mercury Maven II Mid $219.95

Zoa 2 $359.95

Miss Metro $399.95

Endpoint $269.95

Khuno $449.95

Motion $299.95

Igneo $359.95

Zion Jacket $449.95

Gravity Softshell $174.95

Super power Pant $89.95

Stride Pant $99.95

Rockwood Pant $119.95

Good things come in small, lightweight packages. The Joey features a lightweight shock-corded aluminum frame thus avoiding lost parts, and a compact size and durability developed from 30 years of camp chair manufacturing.

Joey Chair $69.95

- Less than 2 lbs.

- Small pack-size - 300lb. Capacity - One year warranty - Perfect gift!!

Easy Setup!

Flash $99.95

Crunch-It $6.95 Safely recycle all your isobutane gas canisters. Works with all major brands!

Sol AL $119.95

Roof Racks WE HAVE IT IN STOCK!

These words are not often heard when shopping for roof racks at most stores. We are the Niagara Region’s roof rack specialists and can fit 90% of vehicles immediately. To compliment our extensive line of Yakima and Malone products we’re proud to also now carry Thule.

Paddling season may be over for most people, but that just means ski season is beginning, so check us out for base racks, ski racks and roof boxes.

Skybox 12 $550

Skybox Pro 16 $780

V2 Dual Colour $29.95

100 Lumens SEO 3 $36.95

F1 $79.95

400 Lumens

90 Lumens SEO 5 $54.95

P7 $69.95

175 Lumens

180 Lumens

Baselayer Central With the temperatures starting to dive it’s time to think about your most important layer...the first one.

Baselayer has advanced considerably and the choices for materials, and fits has never been better.

Here’s a break down of what we feel are the best options out there.

Super-soft Merino fibers in a Mid-weight thickness perfect for skiing, walking, and general outdoor use.

Prices start at $124.95

Synthetic option available in two weights; Light and Warm. Great bang for the buck.

Prices start at $49.95

New Zealand Merino in a myriad of styles, colours and weights. Something for everyone from runners to ice fisherman.

Prices start at $99.95

Possibly the most technical synthetic baselayer on the market. Phasic construction for maximum insulation, wicking and fast drying.

Prices start at $74.95

Snowshoe Zone We’ve made some seasonal changes to our watersports section. For the winter season you’ll notice that we’ve created a new snowshoe zone at the rear of the store. This allows us to better display the region’s best selection of snowshoes from Atlas, MSR, Louis Garneau and Backwoods.

DECEMBER HOURS Sunday 1 11-5 8 11-5 15 11-5 22 11-5 29 11-4

Monday 2 10-9 9 10-9 16 10-9 23 10-9 30 10-6

Tuesday 3 10-9 10 10-9 17 10-9 24 10-4 31 10-4

Wednesday 4 10-9 11 10-9 18 10-9 25 CLOSED

Thursday 5 10-9 12 10-9 19 10-9 26 CLOSED

Friday 6 10-9 13 10-9 20 10-9 27 10-9

Saturday 7 10-5:30 14 10-5:30 21 10-5:30 28 10-5:30

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420 Vansickle Rd. St. Catharines, ON L2S 0C7

www.outdoorsoriented.com

Phone (905) 688-0160