How To Get Ripped With Yoga.
Ben Greenfield Life
Ben Greenfield
4.6 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dean Pohlman's first yoga class was entirely on accident. He says: “I was looking for the tailor and stumbled into a Bikram Yoga studio. I had always been interested in yoga but had never taken a yoga class before that day. I asked the yoga instructor if this class would help my athletic performance. [At the time I was a lacrosse player for the University of Wisconsin.] She told me that it would help me tone my muscles and make me much more flexible. That was exactly what I was looking for. Two hours later, drenched in sweat from head to toe, feeling like I had just exited the pool, and utterly exhausted, I had just completed my first yoga class. It was, and probably will remain, the hardest workout that I have ever done. From that point on, I was sold.” After two months of doing yoga consistently, Dean realized that the benefits of yoga extended far beyond flexibility... “My level of limberness skyrocketed, and so did my endurance, body control, core strength, and balance, just to name a few of the benefits I was experiencing. More than that, it made me even stronger in the weight room.” Dean first began instructing yoga as the conditioning coach of his lacrosse team in 2011. That success encouraged him to take his knowledge and passion to a larger audience, and in January of 2013, Dean founded Man Flow Yoga in order to bring the physical benefits of yoga to as many people as possible, and since then, Dean has been teaching at gyms, parks, workshops, international retreats, and online. As you can see in the photos above and below, Dean has certainly figured out how to get ripped with yoga, and in today's podcast you'll discover: -If it is possible to separate the movements involved in yoga from the spirituality and philosophy of yoga... -What makes Dean's form of yoga different from other forms of yoga... -Why the the yoga industry has done a poor job in reaching the male audience or the extreme fitness crowd... -What you'll find in Dean's book "Yoga Basics for Men"... -And much more! Questions, comments or feedback about how to get ripped with yoga? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com, and be sure to check out Dean's book "Yoga Basics for Men".
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| 0:00.0 | in this episode of the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | Yo good, it does not give you that same feeling of, oh man, I can't even lift my arms anymore. |
| 0:08.6 | Or I just feel so pumped up, look how big my muscles look right now. |
| 0:12.1 | If it ever gets to a point where it's too boring, I'll get into something like the chair pose |
| 0:15.8 | like a squat hold or like a plank or like a low plank felt as hold it. So I feel like my heart |
| 0:20.6 | restarts are increased. It's a runner's line, but you're holding it. They're like two minutes, |
| 0:25.1 | and then you're going into another variation for another minute. It's a really simple exercise, |
| 0:28.8 | but you know, when you hold nice and metric exercise, I've got for a long time, it just gets really hard. |
| 0:33.2 | We can't go into the other class and expect for the teacher to break down the pose, |
| 0:36.4 | brung your head to your toes every time the pose isn't enough. In fact, most times she'll be |
| 0:41.1 | worn out to pose and they will expect you to be able to replicate the pose. |
| 0:47.2 | Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast. We provide you with everything you need to know |
| 0:53.2 | for total performance, fat loss, recovery, digestion, sleep, brain, and hormone optimization. |
| 1:00.3 | So whether you're an Iron Man triathlete or you just want to shed a few pounds, get ready for |
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| 1:23.5 | Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and you've probably heard me talk about on previous podcasts how I |
| 1:36.9 | am indeed a fan of yoga. And I've experimented with everything from half a yoga in my backyard, |
| 1:45.6 | in the snow, to Bickram Yoga at the local hot yoga studio, to even like diamond Dallas |
| 1:52.4 | page yoga with the wrestler who leads you through all these moves, including of course his famous |
| 1:58.0 | superstar move. So I've been all over the map when it comes to yoga. And I've always wondered, |
| 2:05.6 | like if you could, and I've talked to people like this who claim this that all they do to stay fit |
| 2:11.9 | is yoga. And I've certainly seen some people who appear to be in pretty dang good shape, even though |
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