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Yoga Class AND Book Promo Event – HEAT Boot Camp, Austin

Hey Austin – Join me at HEAT Boot Camp to celebrate the launch of my first paperback book, published by DK Publishing, now available at bookstores in the US, UK, and Canada (as well as online wherever books are sold). We’ll spend the first 45-minutes going through an intense, fun, and beginner-friendly yoga workout inspired ... Read More

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The Clark Workouts – Part 6

A burner for your entire body, focused on your groin and hamstrings. This workout improves hip and spine mobility, builds strength and muscle in your thighs, glutes, core, and upper-body, and helps you feel awesome. Use it whenever you need a quick, efficient workout, and leave with a feeling of satisfaction and a burst of energy. Enjoy! You’ll need a block, strap, and a lacrosse ball or KnotOut for this workout.

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How to Breathe Properly

Check out this tutorial for a comprehensive lesson on proper breathing, for better exercise, less stress, and overall fitness!

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Yoga Flow for Strength & Muscle Burn

This is a full-body, comprehensive flow to build muscle and functional strength in your hips, glutes, core, shoulders, and back. We start off with a challenging abs sequence to fire up your core, and then move to the rest of your body. Lots of squats and lunge variations to challenge your lower-body, and plenty of planks and downdogs to target your upper-body, too. No equipment required. Enjoy!!

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Wall Handstand Workout

This is an intense, medium-length workout to help you improve your handstands with a specific handstand drill using a wall to ensure proper shoulder and upper-back positioning. This is one of my favorite exercises to practice handstands properly!

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The Clark Workouts – Part 5

Build muscle, improve mobility, and get stronger. This workout from the Clark series has a bit more upper-body work than the others, but you’ll still get a great burn in your lower-body and core. Use this workout whenever you’re pressed for time, but want all of the benefits of a 60 minute flow, tune in to this and get going!

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Post-Squats Recovery Flow

This is a quick recovery flow focused on relieving soreness and speeding up recovery in your lower-body, to help reduce stiffness in your lower-back from tight hip muscles, and a workout to increase flexibility in your hips. This workout starts with dynamic yoga postures to warm-up and work deeper into your mobility, and then finishes with longer, restorative stretches to relieve tension, release tightness, and help you get back to your fitness activity of choice more quickly with less soreness.

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The 5 Major Problems of Traditional Yoga (and how Man Flow Yoga addresses them)

Traditional yoga doesn’t work for me. Don’t get me wrong - I love the postures, the emphasis on breath and body control, and how it gets you stronger in ways that most exercise programs do not, but attending an average yoga class just about drives me crazy. There are a few reasons, but here’s the main one: Traditional yoga isn’t for men, and it’s not fitness-focused.

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Muscle Building Isometrics for Glutes, Hips, Thighs, & Core

This is workout features essential full-body yoga postures to build strength and muscle in your lower-body. This workout is intermediate/advanced level, and uses minimal instruction to allow you to focus on the postures and zone out without my constant instruction. It’s also a relatively quick workout - a great way to get stronger and improve mobility, including recovery work to help you cool-down and build muscle more quickly. There is no equipment required for this workout.

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Quick Posture Fixer Upper

Stop slouching! Get out of your chair, stop looking down at our phone, and open your chest, hips, and shoulders. This quick but effective workout improves your core strength, spinal strength & mobility, and opens your hips. Great as a quick workout during your lunch break, before you start work in the morning, and even after you finish work.

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