Racergirl

Melanie,
By the way, congrats on your 3rd Xterra World _title_, that's pretty awesome.

Anyways, every 4th week I plan a rejuvination week for my body. I originally figured that I would just reduce the volume of the normal routine and avoid any high intensity work. But recently a friend who also happens to be a personal trainer mentioned that yoga may be a better activity for the recovery week so I don't overtrain. What do you think is the better recovery for a triathlete?

I think a recovery week during the season should include some of the activities you are training for, ie swim, bike and run. The idea is to stay in touch with your fitness but allow your body to rebuild.

Yoga should be incorporated into your program for every week. That way you have a flexibility/strength component to your overall program. You don't need to do hours of yoga for it to be effective. 20 minutes every day or every second day can do wonders to your overall flexibility and may be the missing _link_ to injury prevention.

That is it the long way of saying yes, incorporate yoga but add more than one yoga session per month to your program.