Dean Pohlman's Blog, page 35

Longevity-Focused Fitness

Low-Impact, Joint-Friendly Exercise to Build Strength & Flexibility, Prevent Injury, & Improve Overall Wellness.

This is for those people interested in an effective fitness program that promotes long-term health; to ensure functional, pain-free day to day movement, and allows you to build muscle, increase strength, and improve your mobility with a manageable, sustainable exercise program that leaves you energized and feeling fantastic, instead of burnt out and in pain.

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Flexibility, Mobility & Joint Health: Relieving Stiffness, Preventing Joint Pain & Discomfort, and Increasing Overall Flexibility

Flexibility is one aspect of fitness that is typically neglected in favor of strength or endurance - especially when it comes to guys. But flexibility is also necessary if we want to build strength more quickly, recover in less time, prevent injury, and maintain our physical fitness. It also ensures healthy, pain-free joints, and helps us stay active as we get older. If it hasn’t already, then sooner or later a lack flexibility will catch up with you in the form of pain, discomfort or injury.

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How to Prevent Injury: Injury-Preventing, Joint-Friendly, Safe Fitness

Many people are concerned about injury, especially if they’ve experienced it before. Being injured means not being able to do the things you physically enjoy doing, and it can be a powerful feeling that dissuades us from doing any exercise at all. But the only way to prevent injury is to exercise - you just need to make sure you’re doing the right type of low-impact, muscle-building exercises that have a low-risk of injury and help to injury-proof your body in the process.

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Posture: Beat the Desk, Fix Your Neck & Shoulders, and Increase Energy & Confidence

Posture is a huge issue because most of what we do during the day leads to poor posture. We hunch over our phones, our desks, while driving, and then at home when we sit on the couch. Improving your posture is part strength, and part practice, but it can yield tremendous returns if you better posture a regular habit.

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How To Get Rid of Low-Back Pain

Strengthen Your Lower-Back, Eliminate Pain, & Feel Great.

Low-back Pain is one of the most problems we face in the modern era. Sitting in a chair, being generally inactive during the day, and exercising inefficiently are the main reasons why we experience low-back pain. The good news is that lower-back pain can be fixed when we do the right exercises on a regular basis, and adopt a healthier lifestyle.

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Effective, Low-Impact Fitness for Strength & Flexibility

Are you interested in a program to help you improve your strength and mobility, build muscle, improve body composition, improve overall wellness, and live a healthier lifestyle? Man Flow Yoga is an effective, beginner-friendly form of low-impact fitness to help you do all of the above and more. You don’t need any prior yoga or fitness experience - and there’s no flexibility required. It’s yoga for people interested in the physical fitness, minus the spiritual stuff.

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5 Core Beliefs (Off the Mat)

Today I want to share with you some of my core beliefs - just 5, to be exact. Some of these have some application to fitness and health, while others do not.

The reason I’m sharing these with you today is because I want to share my values without religious or political context. This way you can see what I actually believe - instead of making assumptions based on my affiliation to a particular group.

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Prevent Neck Pain – Stretching & Mobility For Head & Neck

Ready to get of neck and shoulder pain? Here are some of my favorite stretches and mobility techniques (SMR – self-myofascial release) for releasing tension in your neck and shoulders, improving neck mobility, and preventing neck or head pain. Part 1: Foam Rolling Part 2: Lacrosse Ball Part 3: Stretching The goals of this routine ... Read More

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My #1 Motivational Advice (Off the Mat)

I want to address what I think is the biggest obstacle when it comes to being successful with a fitness program. It’s relatively easy to find an effective program, but if that were all that’s required to be successful, then why are so many of us still struggling?

I started a Start Smart program a few months ago to help members of our community get specific advice on the biggest challenges holding them back from being successful with their fitness. The issue of motivation came up often, and I want to share my solution with you.

Here it is: Get to the real reason you are working out.

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5 Low-Impact Exercises to Build Muscle & Increase Strength (Guy‑Friendly Yoga Postures)

I know you might be wondering - can yoga build muscle? Specifically, will Man Flow Yoga help to replace resistance training? Many people are interested in our fitness-centric form of yoga for men because it is a low-impact alternative to weights or traditional exercise, which are higher-impact and can be accompanied by discomfort, pain, or recurring injury.

I want to show you 5 postures that are extremely effective for building muscle and increasing your strength, and give you some tips on how to incorporate them into your workout routine. View these 5 poses - along with target areas, benefits, key technique points, and more - below!

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