Yoga Fitness for Men: Build Strength, Improve Performance, Increase Flexibility
Maximize athletic performance and increase strength and endurance through the power of yoga.
Incorporating yoga into your fitness regime can help you perform better on the sports field and in the gym! Learn how yoga works and integrate key yoga poses and routines to improve flexibility, core strength, and prevent injuries.
For centuries yoga has been used to improve overall health and strengthen the mind and body. This yoga guide focuses on helping men perform at their highest fitness levels.
Inside the pages of this yoga book you’ll find:
– More than 50 postures with full-colorr photos and step-by-step instructions.
– Over 20 workout routines tailored to specific performance goals, such as endurance and power, or improving your running or weightlifting performance.
– Focuses on the functional aspects of yoga, including sports performance and injury prevention.
– Information on how yoga can specifically benefit men.
– Easy-to-follow steps to execute yoga postures.
Yoga is known to have plenty of benefits, but did you know that it also has benefits specifically for men and athletes? At the core, this ancient practice is based on stretching different muscle groups for greater flexibility, ease of movement, and greater power. And these benefits translate to sports performance, gym gains, and overall health – allowing your body to move as it should.
No chanting required to master these yoga postures and workouts! Written by Dean Pohlman, sports coach and author, this yoga book for men is focused on yoga’s functional fitness benefits and less on the spiritual or emotional aspects. A wonderful gift and fitness resource, Yoga For Men: Build Strength and Improve Performance will help men meet their performance goals, play harder and feel better.
No meditation/ energy bs.
First day of one of the 12 week programs included and I could only get 11/16 done.
I never thought stretching and holding could make you shaky and lightly sweat!
Shows that I'm getting out of shape with my new desk job.
Next week I'll get at least 13 done of this particular day!
Very well put together
You will get your money’s worth out of this!
The program I've gone with is neither too time consuming nor too difficult in an uncomfortable straining sort of way (but it is the good kind of difficult). Just what I was looking for.
In addition to the pointers and tips, the author included twenty-five pre-arranged yoga routines to stretch and or strengthen different muscle groups. These routines made it very easy for me to start yoga right away without worrying about unevenly stretching and contracting my muscles.
Lastly, the author combined the pre-made routines into three work out programs. The programs, which vary from twelve to sixteen weeks, are focused on increasing flexibility, general fitness, and athletic performance. I would recommend some practice before trying to commit to one of the programs, but they are a great resource to have for after you get comfortable with the various poses and routines.
The only problem I could find with this book is that it can be hard to keep open for reference during yoga, which can easily be fixed if you get the book spiral bound at your local office supply store. Overall the book is an amazing resource and guide. If you are a man who is trying or planning to start doing yoga, I would seriously recommend getting this book.
Now you just have to set your mind to doing the moves three or four times a week. But, you will find as I do that good habits are easy to keep when you see the benefits. On the Kindle, the book is always with you wherever you go be it in the gym, hotel on a trip, or at home.
Let's you know what each moment
Excellent images from numerous angles really helps clarify positions.
Routines are relatively brief which makes them great to incorporate into other exercise programs.
Wish the book was sold in a spiral bound format. Not only would this allow the user to keep a particular page open, but would also allow for more efficient flipping between pages and prolong the life of this excellent text.
This book is good for people at all levels of fitness and yoga. Namaste, y’all.
The focus, yoga for fitness, takes yoga practice away from the spiritual and puts it into the functional category, so if you're looking for meditation, history, or eastern tradition, get this book anyway and consult other books as supplementary material.
Incredibly detailed movement instructions combined with images to help visualize the movements are key.
This book is perfect for those that do yoga at any level and should be the textbook that all instructors follow for their teaching.
Kudos to Dean and the Man Flow Yoga Team!
The workouts section of the book provides a variety of workouts (restorative and strengthening) at varying levels of difficulty, tailored to novices such as me up to advanced practitioners of yoga. This section also provides guidance on situations when the workout would be most useful (such as to relieve body soreness or stiffness, improve posture, or strengthen the entire body).
The last section is devoted to multi-week programs for general fitness, athletic performance, and healthy spine and core.
This well-organized and well-illustrated book provides a complete program for learning yoga postures, tying the postures together in workouts, and using the workouts to meet my fitness goal.
The bulk of the book is dedicated to a detailed pose guide, which is exceptional. Not only does it show the final pose, it uses pictures to explain how to get there, with detailed descriptions of how it should feel as well as look. Some of them even offer modified versions, which can be used to work up to the full pose.
This book has given me a much better understanding of poses that I have struggled with than any class I have taken. Whether you're new to yoga or have been practicing for years, this book is an essential reference.
1) There are photos of each pose and a sequence of how you get to it. Most books show a yoga pose in its final form but you've no idea the proper flow it takes to get to it.
2) There are professional tips on making the poses more effective as well as modifications if the pose it new to you.
3) There are 25 workouts + 3 longer term programs that incorporate the poses into a nice, steady practice. It's your own personal yoga practice you can do anywhere, anytime.
I could not be more pleased with this book.
Yoga Fitness for Men by Dean Pohlman is one fantastic book. This is the first day of publication. I received my pre-ordered copy. I was so impressed that the book jumped 25 other books in line to be read. I reviewed each and every page of the 190 page book.
Dean dispels several myths and then presents a very reasonable approach to using yoga for athletic, for body repair, for strengthening. Dean presents 55 poses, 25 workouts and 3 programs 2 for 12 weeks and one for 16 weeks.
Each of the 55 poses is presented on facing pages with starting posture or pose with complete detailed instructions, pro tips, if you can’t quite reach the full pose, text bubbles on the large well images that present the pose very very well. The only thing better would be to be in a class with Dean correcting your pose.
Each workout is on one or two facing pages with small images from the pose presentation and instruction.
Each workout is listed with references back to the workouts.
Dean himself is the model for all the many images in the book. Dean displays each and every pose in good detail, with easily followed directions.
The formatting and layout is superb. The images are all superb.
And I only saw one Sanskrit word in the whole book. Dean does mention the “spiritual” aspects as possible, then just does not ever refer to them again. There is no music, no chanting, no prolonged holding of hands in prayer position.
A purist could argue with the English names of the poses, the choice of poses, and the emphasis on athleticism and posture and body repair.
I highly recommend this book for all men with even a passing interest in doing yoga, as this makes yoga accessible to men of all ages. This is a fitness centric book doing exactly what it claims, “to get [men] stronger, improve mobility, and prevent injury.”