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Sebastian Eliminates His Stress With Man Flow Yoga (Member Highlight: Sebastian Pietrucha)

Sebastian Pietrucha is a 42-year-old Man Flow Yoga member living in southern Germany who never thought yoga would be his secret weapon for relaxation. As a project engineer, Sebastian often has to juggle many tasks and responsibilities. At the end of his day, stress used to overwhelm him. In fact, his stress even caused physical pain in his neck and upper back. But that’s all changed thanks to Man Flow Yoga.

Sebastian joined Man Flow Yoga about 6 months ago. While his original reason for joining Man Flow Yoga was to improve his mobility and dumbbell workouts, it quickly replaced all other forms of exercising.

Today, Sebastian reports that he doesn’t have much pain or stress anymore. 

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My 5 Most Important Lessons From 2022 | Dean Pohlman | Better Man Podcast Ep. 037

Over the course of a year, you pick up a lot of new tweaks, lessons, and tricks which can increase your enjoyment for life. But the problem is, most of these lessons don’t build into habits, and you don’t get as much benefit out of them as you otherwise could.

In this episode, I reveal my 5 most important lessons that I’ve implemented throughout 2022 that have increased my satisfaction for life—and they’ll do the same for you.

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How To Stay Healthy During the Holidays 2022 | Tips to Stay Active While Traveling and When You Reach Your Destination

Staying healthy during the holidays can be a tough task.  It’s challenging to eat properly and find time to train during the holidays. Between long hours crunched in a car or airplane and days spent with family members whose nutritional habits and activity levels likely don’t mirror your own, it’s enough to make you want to throw up your hands and forget about your healthy lifestyle until after New Year’s Day.

The key is planning and managing expectations.

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Training To Chill Out: Nasal Breathing, Cold Plunges, & Why Less is More | Brian Mackenzie | Better Man Podcast Ep. 036

Most people who take their health and fitness seriously fall into a major trap which wipes out all the benefits of better health: They add too much to their plate. Each additional thing they add to their plate decreases their mental, physical, and emotional health. But most importantly, it causes them to lose sight of who they are.

The solution? Training to chill out instead of training so you can add more to your already overflowing plate.

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How Man Flow Yoga Erased Pain From Murray Savar’s Life (Member Highlight: Murray Savar)

Murray teaches elementary and high school music. He often sits on the floor during class with his kids. Before Man Flow Yoga, pains erupted through Murray’s joints and muscles when he tried standing up. But since joining Man Flow Yoga about a year ago, those pains disappeared. He’s spry and feels like one of the kids he teaches. But that’s just one of several benefits Murray has experienced since signing up for Man Flow Yoga.

Murray also likes to cycle as part of his fitness and cardiovascular routine. He told our team that he noticed vast improvements with cycling, especially with nasal breathing—something he picked up from various videos in The Breath Series 28-Day Challenge.

He also reported that since starting Man Flow Yoga, his energy levels have skyrocketed and he sleeps much better each and every night.

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My Top 12 Favorite Stress-Relieving Activities | Dean Pohlman | Better Man Podcast Ep. 035

while “good stress” is one of the most effective ways to grow, “bad stress” plays a hand in almost every disease, illness, and injury you get.

But don’t worry—there are simple activities you can do on a daily and weekly basis to curtail stress from consuming your mental (and physical) health.

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How to Increase Deep Sleep with Yoga | Use These 3 Poses and Tips to Improve Your Sleep

During sleep, your brain has the potential to repair, restore, and lock in all that it’s learned the previous day. Your body goes through a similar process where growth hormone and testosterone are released. It’s when your fascia, muscles, and neuromuscular system go through an upgrade from the workout you hopefully underwent earlier in the day. These are just a few benefits of getting better sleep.

Bottom line: without adequate sleep, recovery won’t happen, and you won’t improve physically and mentally. Sleep is a skill like anything else that can be learned and should rank as a high priority. There’s a reason it has become a focus of professional athletes in recent years. They know it’s one area where they can dramatically boost performance without putting forth greater physical effort or resources.

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Health Insurance vs Care, Relationships, and Testosterone | Josh Whalen | Better Man Podcast Ep. 034

Life is full of twists and turns that can turn things that were once easy into difficult experiences. Whether it’s with your health, your relationships, your fitness, or your success goals.

But there are strategies you can employ to make each difficult aspect of life a little easier. And that’s what Josh Whalen, CEO of Blokes, and I discuss on today’s episode.

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How Man Flow Yoga Unlocks PRs In Running, Weight Lifting, and even Mental Health (Member Highlight: Cody Sliger)

Every single Man Flow Yoga Member leads busy lives. But perhaps no Member is as busy as 30-year-old Man Flow Yoga Member, Cody Sliger. He’s a full-time nurse practitioner, student (going for his doctorate), husband, and father.

Which means, sometimes Cody finds it difficult to squeeze in a good workout — whether he’s doing a Man Flow Yoga routine, running, or lifting weights. But thanks to the ease of Man Flow Yoga routines, Cody misses fewer and fewer workouts than ever before.

In fact, he uses Man Flow Yoga routines to make him better at his job…

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Staying Fit Over The Holidays (Even While You Travel) | Dean Pohlman | Better Man Podcast Ep. 033

The holiday season can sabotage your exercise routine, especially if you’re traveling to meet up with family. Too often, people use the holidays as an excuse to skip their workouts — but this can have a devastating effect on your routines long after the holidays end.

That’s why it’s crucial to do some sort of exercise while you’re traveling for the holiday season. Not only will it make exercising easier when you return home, but it’s also an opportunity to bond with your family in a different way.

In this episode, I’m sharing my favorite workout hacks (and mistakes to avoid) when traveling, so you stay fit and motivated over the holidays. Plus, I have a special surprise for you at the end of the episode.

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