My 7-Day Protein Push: A No-Nonsense Plan for Shedding Kilos in South Africa I will be honest with you: I was tired of the routine of beginning Monday with an inspirational state of mind and ending the week with a takeout box. My tendency to drop pounds, which is to simply eat less of everything, …
Good Morning Exercise: How I Built a Stronger Back and Fixed My Posture I used to think a strong back was something you built for looks. I was wrong. I learned the hard way that neglecting my posterior chain was costing me—not just in the gym, but in everyday life as well. My lower back …
Yoga Poses For 2: Build Strength & Trust Together I believed that partner yoga was about chanting and placing hands. I was wrong. My buddy persuaded me to do it after I crashed somewhere in a savage plateau during my training. It is a no-nonsense account of how practicing Yoga Poses for 2 made me …
I break down the Is Yoga a Sport? debate Let me be straight with you. A few years ago, if you’d asked me, “Is yoga a sport?” I would have laughed. My idea of a sport involved a ball, a scoreboard, and a lot of sweating and swearing. Yoga was what my girlfriend did to …
Yoga vs. Pilates Let’s be real. I was stuck in a fitness rut. My exercise consisted of the expected cycle of weight lifting and half-baked running. I guess it was working, but I would rather have had it as a chore. I was not feeling smoother; my old back situation was just beginning to moan …
What Is Goat Yoga? Let us get to the point. My response to the news about goat yoga was a severe eye-roll. Yoga? Fine. Goats? Sure. But together? It was the internet absurdity, a gimmick created only to be liked on Instagram. I imagined a chaotic situation where nobody does yoga at all, it is …
Yoga Nidra: My 30-Day Journey to Master Deep Rest Let’s be blunt. I was tired. I do not mean tired of having an extra cup of coffee. I was a soul-hurting, deep, always-on-edge sort of fatigued. My brain was a browser with 100 tabs open in it, frozen. I used to spend hours in bed, …
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 …
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, …