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Cleveland Workshop: The Yoga Strength X Factor

Man Flow Yoga Workshop in Cleveland
Friday, November 23 at 11 AM

The Yoga Strength X-Factor: Learn how yoga can build more strength, improve your performance, and prevent injury to fill the gaps of typical training programs. Improve your mile time. Correct muscular imbalances. Lift more. Recover faster. This is a 90-minute workshop that teaches teach you how to capitalize on the uniqueness of yoga to get stronger and fell incredible!

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Energizing Lunch Yoga Workout for Strength & Mobility

In this blog I’m sharing with you an intense, 43-minute LIVE recorded workout. This is an exclusive test run from our upcoming Yoga Charge - the newest Body by Yoga DVD!

This workout was designed as an intense mid-day workout you can do during your lunch hour. The postures are mostly beginner-friendly, but it’s up to you how hard you want to push yourself - and whether or not you want to do the whole thing. This is an intense, full-body workout to build strength and mobility. You’ll sweat a lot and get an awesome workout, but you’ll also have fun while doing it!

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Common Beginner Yoga Mistakes to Avoid

Today I want to address the most common errors I see people making in yoga postures and give you detailed instruction for how to correct these mistakes and maintain proper form.

Experienced yogis (and even certified yoga instructors) are guilty of making these common yoga mistakes. Being aware of these mistakes is important for anyone practicing yoga or interested in practicing yoga. You shouldn’t have to rely on your yoga instructor to always adjust you and correct your technique.

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I was almost crushed by a tree branch this morning (Off the Mat)

I was out on my morning walk, and out of nowhere I heard an extremely loud CRASH!!!!

When I heard the noise, I had just crossed the street with my dogs (Flowtron & Kaya) to return home, and I was with two other dog-owning neighbors of mine. Each of us spun around and to see what had happened, and were shocked to see that a HUGE branch had suddenly fallen out of a nearby tree – in the same exact spot we had been walking not more than a minute before. (You can see for yourself in the photo inside.)

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Exercises You Can Do While Sitting

Sitting for a few hours at a time is sometimes unavoidable, whether you’re on a plane, riding in the passenger sit of a car, or at a desk. This full-body routine was designed for exactly those moments.

Let me walk you through a series of exercises which can be done from a seated position, starting with exercises for your foot and ankle and working all the way to your head and neck for a full body challenge.

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Best Stretching Routine to Counter Sitting

Traveling is a great way to maintain balance in your life, destress, and boost creativity and overall happiness. Traveling also usually means sitting for an extended period of time in a car or on a plane. This routine includes 5 postures and is designed to efficiently counter the negative effects of sitting in just 10-12 minutes. These stretches can also be incorporated into your day on a regular basis to counter sitting at a desk or on a couch.

When we sit our hip flexors are inactive and in a shorted position, our glutes are inactive, our shoulders and spine round, and our chest tightens. These postures are effective at countering sitting because they work to put your body in the opposite position and engage muscle groups that are dormant while you sit.

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Pre-Travel Stretches for Air Travel

I get this question a lot: "What are some stretches I can do BEFORE getting on a plane?" If you're going to be sitting on a plane for Several hours, you're gonna want to do some movement beforehand. Otherwise your butt's going to start hurting, and your lower back is going to get stiff.

Let's open up the chest with some back bends, prep the hips with hip flexor stretching and do a few twists to get the glutes moving. You might get a few odd looks in the terminal, but you'll feel a lot better on the plane!

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Yoga Beast 2.0

This blog discusses how you can you build muscle and get stronger than you ever thought possible with yoga. It also introduces the release of my newest yoga workout program, Yoga Beast 2.0. This one’s for all the naysayers: Yoga can’t build muscle. You can’t get ripped with yoga. Yoga’s not a hard enough workout. ... Read More

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Flexibility, Mobility & Joint Health for Inflexible Beginners

When you’re an active guy who’s no longer in your 20s, you get to the point where you realize that you can’t keep training the same way you did in your high school or college years. You don’t recover as quickly. Minor discomforts turn into nagging pains that prevent you from doing exercises you used to enjoy. But you’ve worked hard to achieve your fitness, and you don’t want to give it up. So you keep plowing through that pain and discomfort.

Eventually, it becomes too much. You begin avoiding exercises that you used to love doing. Certain movements aren’t as easy as they used to be, and you start to feel nagging aches and pains in your shoulders, knees, or lower-back. These are a few main reasons for this, but most of it comes down to one thing - a lack of mobility work.

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Beginners Yoga Strength for Resistance Training

Today I’m excited to announce the release of a brand-new workout program, specifically designed to help people who lift weights and want to get stronger, stay healthy, and improve performance.

Most yoga workouts aren’t built to complement weight training. Sure, they can help, but they’re made with the idea that yoga (not weight training) is your main form of exercise, and so they don’t account for what you’re already doing with your weight training.

This program is different. I built this program under the assumption that you’re already doing weight training, and you’re not looking for yoga to replace that. Instead, you want yoga to complement your weight training, to help you lift more and build more muscle, prevent injury, and exercise without pain or discomfort.

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