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Prone Scapular Stability Exercises – Full Video Tutorial

Improve Shoulder Mobility, Build More Muscle & Strength In Your Upper-Back, and Prevent Injury. In this blog I show you 4 exercises to target your upper-back and shoulders to improve your scapular stability. In terms of your fitness, this:

Improves shoulder mobility for greater range of motion, more muscle activation, and greater muscular awareness.
Helps you build more muscle and increase strength in your shoulders & upper-back.
Prevents injury in your shoulder, including rotator cuff strains & tears, shoulder impingement and pain, and more.

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Introducing the Man Flow Yoga Strength Foundations Course

Introducing… the Man Flow Yoga Strength Foundations Course, the newest workout program from Man Flow Yoga. Featuring all new workouts, this program is designed to improve overall strength and mobility, significantly decrease your risk of injury, and help you get faster results in less time.

To help you understand this program, I need to talk about a common issue shared by nearly everybody (both experienced and inexperienced) who works out.

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15 Minute Forearm Stand Workout

We don’t always have time for a 30-minute warm-up, but we can get away with a 10-minute one if you really go hard. Use this quick workout to SAFELY practice your forearm stands. You’ll need a strap for this.

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Yoga for Shin Splints – Recovery

This recovery session is focused on alleviating symptoms of shin splints, which includes tightness and discomfort and your lower legs, particularly along your shins. Use this after a run to help recover more quickly. Remember – this is just relieving the symptoms. You must strengthen and improve mobility in the lower legs as well in order to solve shin splints for good.

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Cobra Pose

Cobra is one of the best spine and core strengthening postures in yoga. It’s an essential backbend that helps address the underlying causes of back pain and poor posture. It also builds endurance in your hips and thigh, core, and back muscles. This is one pose that everyone (unless you have a back injury or ... Read More

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15-Minute Recharge

Do this quick workout to recharge your body and energize yourself for the day. All standing postures – nothing with your hands or body on the ground – so you can do it anywhere, with zero equipment. The workout focuses on hips and back, to open your hips from sitting, and move your spine from ... Read More

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Full Body Yoga for Strong Shoulders

This is a full-body workout focused on strengthening and improving mobility in your shoulders. Strengthen your shoulders, work deeper into the postures, and improve your posture. This is a fun intermediate workout, faster moving with less instruction, and more advanced movements to challenge you to grow. Learn some new movements for your shoulder, strengthen your ... Read More

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Unleash Your Butt Power: Glute Activation & Strength

This workout is a focused all about strengthening your butt; more specifically, your glutes. This helps to improve explosive power in your hips, reduce strain on your hip flexors and lower-back, improves squats, and much more. It’s ideal for people who sit often, those who have weak glutes or tend not to get sore in their glutes the day after a workout, and for anyone with knee issues. Build muscle, improve muscle activation, and increase strength in your glutes. Strengthen your knees, correct muscular imbalances, and lift more with your lower-body. There’s not much that stronger glutes won’t do! Most exercises require nothing but your body, but some are more effective when you use a Theraband. If you don’t have one yet, you can get a set on Amazon at the link below. (I recommend the lighter resistance at first, and heavier later on.)

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Chicago Workshop: The Yoga Strength X Factor

Man Flow Yoga Workshop in Chicago
Sunday, July 15 at 11:00 AM

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

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Take It Down a Notch – Strap Stretches

Here’s a quick restorative session focused on relieving tension in your spine caused by hip and lower-body tightness. Use it to relieve tension, relax, and get a great night of sleep. Or, use it after work to help tune out the troubles of the day and have a great evening.

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