Yoga Fitness for Men


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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.




Yoga for Physical Fitness


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Yoga for Physical Fitness


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The Women's Health Big Book of Yoga


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From Women's Health contributor and yoga expert Kathryn Budig-the essential, authoritative guide to yoga, for beginners and beyond. Approximately 16 millions Americans now practice yoga on a regular basis. Devotees can't rave enough about this ancient art of meditation, breathing, and physical postures that calms the mind and slims the body. Unlike fitness fads, yoga is worth the hype. The postures stretch and tone lean muscle mass and sculpt a strong and slender physique-burning up to 400 calories in a 90-minute session. But yoga does something even better. It's proven to reduce the biggest cause of weight gain-stress-which 43% of Americans say makes them overeat. This definitive volume features: - every essential pose to help readers lose weight and transform their bodies - Total Body Yoga: targeted workouts in 15 minutes or less - core-strengthening routines for hotter, more satisfying sex - a healthy, mindful eating plan centered around calming, cleansing foods Covering everything from basic postures to relaxation techniques to avoiding common injuries, The Women's Health Big Book of Yoga is the only guide readers need to achieve their fittest, healthiest, happiest selves.




Power Down for Fitness


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"Kids know exercise is good for them. But they may not know there are different kinds of exercise ... This book presents easy-to-follow yoga poses for kids plus informational notes for adults who dare to join them in stretching for flexibility and fitness."--




Yoga Fitness Secrets


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Staying healthy and losing weight doesn't necessarily mean that you can only eat healthy foods. In order to lose the weight that you want, you also need to exercise. Unfortunately for most people, they are not very fond of hearing the word "exercise" simply because they do not feel that it does not work with them. However, exercise is a broad term. There are many ways to exercise your body in order to lose weight. If you're thinking of the typical running, or lifting weights, or regular sports type of exercises than you're forgetting another good aspect of exercise: yoga. If you're not familiar with yoga then it is a good time to start now. Not to mention that yoga will also benefit you in many ways. It's a form of exercise that allows you to relax your mind while releasing the tension in your body. It also improves your strength and stamina. It'll allow your body to become more flexible than before and it'll make you feel a lot lighter. So who knows? You might even prefer this type of exercise.




Richard Hittleman's Yoga


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The continuing bestseller for maintaininig a healthy and relaxed body.




Yoga Fitness


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Yoga is a modern form of exercise that has its roots in ancient times five thousand years ago, in fact, in the Indus Valley. Today you can step into just about any fitness gym in the United States and find workout rooms filled with people doing all sorts of interesting body contortions like cobra, eagle, crow, and the ever-popular downward-facing dog. Yoga has really taken the US fitness world by storm. More than twenty million Americans say they are regular practitioners of yoga and millions more say they d like to give it a try someday. Are you one of them? There s only one way to find out. Flip open the pages of this book and find out if you have what it takes to be a junior yogi or yogini!




Yoga for Physical Fitness in Adoloscents


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Emerging society has considered physical fitness as one of the important indicators of health. Being physically fit has been defined as "the ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness, without undue fatigue and with ample energy to enjoy leisure-time pursuits and to meet unforeseen emergencies". Physical fitness refers to the maximum capacity that people have or achieve while they perform physical activity that can be measured as the level of strength and flexibility of the muscular groups in different body parts. LITERARY REVIEW In this chapter of literary research, attempts were made to understand concept of vyayama, and asanas, from ancient Indian scriptures. Relevant slokas are presented text-wise, and a coherent discussion is provided for the same. Relevant slokas were selected from the Shastrani (Shastrani, 2004) and the multilingual E-Samhita with search option prepared by CCRAS, Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Finally, a theoretical model which depicts the evolution of vyayama to asana has also been attempted.




The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga


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Since 1960, more than 1 million people have used this classic guide to tap the incredible power of yoga. The attractive new edition, in a new size, will appeal to a wide audience of contemporary yoga students.