Mangesh Dhale
My Yoga Six Review: A Skeptic’s 4-Month Case Study Let’s be real. For years, my idea of yoga was a room full of people chanting “om” while contorting into impossible positions. It seemed… soft. I was a weights guy, a run-till-you-puke guy. My fitness was loud, grindy, and measured in pounds on a bar. Flexibility …
My 90-Day Hot Yoga Grind: Raw Data & Results Let’s get one thing straight right from the start: I am not the guy you’d expect to see in a hot yoga class. My idea of a good workout used to involve heavy iron, grunting, and the smell of chalk and sweat. Yoga was something I …
How to Choose the Best Yoga Pants for Women Let’s be real for a second. I used to think buying yoga pants for my wife was a simple task. I’d walk into a store, see a wall of black leggings, grab a medium, and call it a day. I thought I’d nailed it. That was …
Yoga Diet Plan for Weight Loss and Flexibility Mental peace is not what reigns in my mind each time I arrive at yoga class. Rather, my focus is on the creaky, oversized contraption I have always carried with me. I have never been as stiff as I was then, what with my patient’s body weight, …
My Hunt for the Ultimate Grip: Finding the best eco friendly yoga mat non slip Upgrade your practice with a mat that truly holds ground. The search for the best eco friendly yoga mat non slip ends here. Our top picks prove you don’t have to choose between performance and sustainability, featuring innovative materials that …
10 Yoga for Weight Loss Poses That Build Muscle & Burn Fat When I first heard someone say, 10 Yoga for weight loss, I almost laughed. I pictured incense, gentle stretching, and people saying “om.” I was looking for sweat, burn, and results. I thought yoga was for flexibility and stress relief—something you did on …
Used yin yoga for weight loss, the Weight and Keep When I first began experimenting with Yin Yoga as a weight loss exercise, I had no idea that it would change my life so completely. Yin Yoga allowed me to slow down, relax, and burn fat in a meditative approach as opposed to an aggressive …
My Take: Yoga for Weight Loss is a Game-Changer Before, I didn’t see past the high-impact cardio workouts and believed yoga was ‘too passive’ to facilitate weight loss. The plateau was unbearable, so I decided to undertake a 12-week self-case study, with yoga being the main component. Bones were shattered. NIH research states that a …
Here’s my old fitness philosophy: No sweat, no success, that’s what I lived by. I meant it as a fact. I put my body through hell and got it to do what I wanted, which, for the most part, it did not want to. Somatic Yoga was a performance for me; I ground out every …
Age is the only creature Koji has yet to fathom. I, too, have the illness snooze and, even in my dreams, I was tormented by the thought of several apparent and illusory infections occupying me like a bed infestation, a soon-to-be-reality. I felt a prickling, enjoyable sensation in my arm, my knees began to hurt, …