Dean Pohlman's Blog, page 37

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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Yoga Flow for Strength & Muscle Burn – 40 Minute Workout!

Here’s workout #3 - Yoga Flow for Strength & Muscle Burn - a full-body, 40-minute workout designed to build muscle, increase strength, and improve mobility. Give it a go below, FREE with the password! This flow is just one of 250+ full-length video workouts you’ll get immediate access to when you join the Members’ Area.

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Strength Foundations Course Workout #2 (View full workout!)

Here’s workout #2 – Breath & Movement with Balance Essentials – A full-body, 38 minute workout to build core and hip strength while improving overall strength for balance. Surprisingly effective! – FREE (with the password)!

This is the second workout from the Strength Foundations Course, a brand-new program I created to improve overall strength, prevent injury, and take your fitness to the next level. It’s just one of 25+ comprehensive yoga workout programs you’ll get access to when you join Man Flow Yoga.

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Full Workout Preview – Strength Foundations Course Workout #2

Here’s workout #2 – Breath & Movement with Balance Essentials – A full-body, 38 minute workout to build core and hip strength while improving overall strength for balance. Surprisingly effective! – FREE (with the password)!

This is the second workout from the Strength Foundations Course, a brand-new program I created to improve overall strength, prevent injury, and take your fitness to the next level. It’s just one of 25+ comprehensive yoga workout programs you’ll get access to when you join Man Flow Yoga.

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Breathing & Muscle Activation Basics (30-Minute Full Length Workout)

If you’re already on the waitlist, thank you for your patience! I look forward to you joining us when we re-open the Members’ Area for early enrollment on Saturday, August 11. Not on the waitlist? Join the VIP waitlist for FREE and get the password to 3 exclusive full-length Members’ Area workouts, early enrollment access, and more!

Here’s workout #1 - Breathing & Muscle Activation Basics - a full 30-minute workout teaching how to integrate full body core strength into breathing and movement - FREE with the password!

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Members Area Opens Soon – Special Sneak Preview!

If you’re already on the waitlist, thank you for your patience! I look forward to you joining us when we re-open the Members’ Area for early enrollment on Saturday, August 11. Not on the waitlist? Join the VIP waitlist for FREE and get the password to 3 exclusive full-length Members’ Area workouts, early enrollment access, and more!

Here’s workout #1 - Breathing & Muscle Activation Basics - a full 30-minute workout teaching how to integrate full body core strength into breathing and movement - FREE with the password!

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