Dean Pohlman's Blog, page 51

Quick Strength & Mobility – Office Flow

Counter your seated position, boost your energy, and get stronger and more mobile. This quick workout strengthens and improves mobility in your hips, core, and spine through a quick series of full-body exercises specifically addressed at countering the hunched position you find yourself in at a desk.

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Move More

You need to move at least an hour per day. This is non-negotiable. Your excuses don’t matter. At all. Your body gives you exactly what you give it. If you don’t move, guess what? Your body is eventually going to hurt. Mobility will decrease. You won’t be able to enjoy the physical activities you’re currently doing. You’ll lose muscle, lose strength, good posture, and might end up with significant back issues.

You just need to MOVE. In whatever you’re wearing. With whatever you have available.

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Beginner’s Yoga for Men Strength and Mobility for Hips

It’s all in the hips. Stronger core. Better squats. Faster sprints. Stronger knees, stronger spine, and less injury. t all begins in your hips! Use this workout to improve strength, mobility, and stability in the hips. This can be difficult if you’re new to yoga, but you’ll get stronger quickly and be able to notice the results!

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Yoga Strength and Mobility Basics for a Strong Spine

Get your whole body moving, stretched out, and stronger in just about 20 minutes. A full-body workout utilizing full-body movements to build strength and mobility in your entire body. Great for beginners and intermediate users, particularly focused on spinal health. Enjoy!

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Yoga Strength and Mobility Basics for Spine, Core, and Hips

You’re going to feel amazing once you’ve finished this. Movement Essentials helps you develop the foundational movements you need to be healthy. Improve your mobility, core strength, and body control. Stretch and strengthen your spine, improve core strength, and increase hip mobility. Enjoy!

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Yoga, Muscle, and Athletes: How can yoga help?

I wrote this blog specifically for athletes who want to build muscle and are interested in knowing how yoga can help. Below, you’ll learn about the biggest differences I noticed before and after I started doing yoga, how doing yoga changed my perceptions of it, and what it taught me about fitness in general. This blog will be especially relevant to you if you can relate to any of the following statements:

Your first exposure to fitness was organized sports and a high school weight room.
You didn’t place much value on flexibility, because your main goal was building muscle.
You didn’t (or don’t) understand how mobility, balance, and flexibility improve your performance as an athlete.
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Sometimes you just need to… – Off The Mat

Most of us assume that the best way to take action is to seek inspiration and get motivated, but this actually isn’t true.

Action INSPIRES motivation. And motivation inspires further action.

So do something. You might not have a plan. You might not want to take action. But if you get the ball rolling, it will eventually roll with its own momentum.

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Yoga Balance Postures for Beginners (No flexibility required)

Balancing postures are one of the most effective exercises you can do. Balancing increases strength, mobility, core strength, and body awareness. This workout walks you through the basic balancing postures. This is a great, quick little workout you can do before you go to work, right before lunch, in the mid-afternoon, or after work. Use it any time - you can do this every day if you’d like!

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Muscle & Athletes: Part 2 – After Yoga

In this follow-up episode, I sit down with Chris Isom of Isom Fitness, former professional basketball player, competitive yoga athlete, and fitness expert, and continue our discussion on yoga’s impact on our athletic careers, specifically focusing on the topic of building muscle. This episode focuses on our perceptions of yoga and muscle AFTER starting yoga. We talk about what we’ve learned thanks to yoga, how it changed our perception of fitness in general, the changes we made to our training habits, and the effects yoga had on our fitness.

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Morning Routine for Confidence & Energy

This is a 15-minute yoga routine to boost your confidence and give you energy for the day. We do this by opening your shoulders, ribs, hips, strengthening your core, boosting your posture, and opening & strengthening the spine. It’s a 15-minute workout you can do before any work day and feel great, even if you’re ... Read More

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