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9 Muscle-Building Secrets from the Strength Sensei

A few weeks ago I attended the Bulletproof Conference in Pasadena, to learn about the most cutting-edge habits, practices, and technology to help improve your fitness, increase your performance, and keep you healthy in an incredibly unhealthy world. The most relevant talk I attended in terms of what I do with Man Flow Yoga was by far the open discussion Q&A session by Charles Poliquin, aka The Strength Sensei, one of the world’s most recognized strength training coaches. Poliquin has trained professional and olympic athletes, and has often been far ahead of the curve when it comes to designing effective training routines. Training principles that are just now in 2016 becoming mainstream knowledge have been part of Poliquin’s training programs since the 1970s. Ready to learn something that will change the way you approach your workouts?

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Counter Strike for Inactivity

This workout strengthens your hips, spine, shoulders, and core. The main focus of this workout is strengthening your hips with big, long hip openers, and sustained backbends to help counter inactivity, such as a weekend off, a day of sitting, or just lower-back stiffness in general. Instead of focusing on stretching and relief, though, this workout focuses on strengthening the inactive muscles. This workout strengthens your hips, spine, shoulders, and core. The main focus of this workout is strengthening your hips with big, long hip openers, and sustained backbends to help counter inactivity, such as a weekend off, a day of sitting, or just lower-back stiffness in general. Instead of focusing on stretching and relief, though, this workout focuses on strengthening the inactive muscles.

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Hip Flexibility & Mobility for Bulletproof Knees

This is a workout focused on improving flexibility and mobility in the hips, specifically on improving mobility for heather, stronger, more injury-resistant knees. Don’t let the title fool you – this workout is challenging! I’ll push you to work deeper and push past your comfort levels, all the while remaining in control of your body. Use this often, and I recommend combining this with the Bulletproof Your Knees Workout Program for maximum effect.

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No, it doesn’t matter if you make your bed or not – Off The Mat

Have you seen the commencement speech from Admiral McRaven in which he talks about the importance of making your bed? Like many things, people take this too literally. The point of the speech isn't to say that making your bed is the basis of a successful day; rather, what makes this action a potential success booster is the MINDSET that it promotes. It's about starting the day off by setting and completing a task. I'll give you another example...

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Men’s Yoga for Shoulders

Build Muscle, Mobility, & Strengthen your Rotator Cuff. The newest workout from Man Flow Yoga is live! Check it out now. This is a 53-minute 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 rotator cuff and improve shoulder mobility – but we’ll also strengthen your hips, core, and back. This workout has it all – enjoy!

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The Easiest Way to Counter Sitting

Lay down more

Even though I teach people how to use yoga to improve their fitness for a living, much of what I do isn’t active. In fact, I bet that I spend just as much time as you do at a computer. There are certain things that I do to help counter the negative effects of sitting, and this is one of my favorites - and it involves zero effort.

Instead of sitting in a chair, lay down on your stomach. Put your laptop in front of you, focus on keeping yourself upright, and work in a prone position for as long as you comfortably can. Put a KnotOut or a lacrosse ball on your hip flexor while you’re in the prone position to help open your hip flexors (the muscles that get tight when you sit) to help improve hip mobility and reduce tightness or stiffness in your spine.

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11 Things I Learned at the 2017 Bulletproof Conference

I learned a lot this year. Waaaaay too much for one blog, but here I’m gonna show you the eleven most important things I came away with. Yeah, ELEVEN, couldn’t even get it down to a nice even ten. Well, I could Have, But #11? Is REALLY important.

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Arms & Shoulders – Workout Preview

This workout preview is from a 57-minute workout that focuses on building strength in throughout your entire upper body, to develop muscle in your arms, chest, shoulders, upper-back, and forearms so you can do advanced movements like handstands, crow pose, and more. This is a CHALLENGING workout that will take your strength, your focus, and your endurance to the limits. Enjoy!

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Get Stronger in New Ways with Yoga

Featuring Chris Isom, Former Professional Basketball Player. Get stronger in new ways, learn about your body, and get rid of nagging weaknesses that hold you back with yoga. In this video I speak with Chris Isom, former professional basketball player and creator of IsomFitness, to talk about how Chris uses yoga to get stronger and stay in amazing physical shape. In this video, we talk about:

The poses Chris did to stay in peak shape as a professional athlete
My ridiculous analogy of a sand castle and muscle recovery
What he learned about his performance as an athlete thanks to yoga
And more!

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How Yoga Can Help You Complete an Ironman

In this video, I sit down with my friend and Ironman competitor, Edgar Ramos, to discuss how yoga has helped improve his performance as an Ironman.

Edgar doesn't do this full-time. Like most of us, he spends his day working at a desk in an office environment, but he doesn't let that hold him back from competing and doing his best. Listen to this episode to learn:

How grueling is an Ironman competition
Where does yoga have the biggest impact on his training
What are the best poses for Ironman athletes
The importance of active recovery (even when you're so sore you can't sleep!)

And more!

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