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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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How to Actually Enjoy Fitness – Off The Mat

I was sitting at the pool today talking about fitness goals with a very close friend of mine. Let me give you a little back story so you can get a clear picture. We met in Austin about 4 years ago as fellow Midwestern lacrosse players. We are similar in many ways. We’re both entrepreneurs. ... Read More

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Muscle & Athletes: Part 1 – Muscle Before Yoga

In this episode, I sit down with Chris Isom of Isom Fitness, former professional basketball player, competitive yoga athlete, and fitness expert, and have a discussion on the impact of yoga on our fitness, specifically focusing on building muscle.

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Proper Technique for Posture

This blog walks you through the proper technique of perfect posture. If you’d prefer to watch instead of read, there is a video you can follow along to in which I walk you through every aspect of perfect posture. Use this blog to practice and improve your posture! The list goes on, but the point ... Read More

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Man Flow Yoga Minis – Weekly Wrap Up 8-28-2017

Looking for something quick? These Man Flow Minis Are all less than five minutes! These workouts are designed to keep you mobile and pain free throughout the day. These minis all come from the Yoga Body workout program.

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The Posture Fix

I am writing this blog to talk about the 6 most important ways that a fitness-centric yoga program helps you improve posture. Before you start reading, I would like to emphasize that the information below does not apply to any type of yoga or any yoga instructor – in order to get the benefits below, the yoga class in question must facilitate the necessary level of stress to provoke growth in the areas responsible for proper posture (i.e. the workout has to be hard enough to build muscle, not just stretch your body), and it should be taught by a knowledgeable instructor who teaches proper technique and constantly reinforces proper body positioning throughout the workout.

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