Sarah James - Yoga Basics for Men:: Its Immense Benefits For Men (Builds muscle)

Yoga Basics for Men

I want to thank you and congratulate you for downloading the book, Yoga Basics For Men .

This book will help you get started on yoga especially if you are a man and have been thinking that yoga is for women only.

What comes to mind when you think about yoga? For most people, the first thing that comes to mind is people doing out-of-this-world poses. However, this is not what yoga is all about. Yoga is a combination of body and spiritual exercises and techniques designed to cultivate unison between your body and mind, and help you gain oneness with the universe.

In simpler terms, yoga uses relaxation techniques, meditation, breathing, diet, and body exercises to make the body stronger and healthier. Yoga exercises help you live a healthier lifestyle by facilitating weight loss, improving blood circulation, boosting flexibility, and relaxing your anxious mind.

Although yoga seems gender biased, i.e. as a modern practice, modern yoga seems to have a larger feminine following, both men and women can adopt yoga in a bid to achieve a deeper connection with their mind and improve optimal health.

The key to beginning yoga is starting with easy, short poses until you become accustomed to long hours of advanced yoga exercises.

In men, Yoga builds muscles, relieves stress, strengthens the heart, improves libido, as well as fights colds and flu. This book will outline how any man can integrate various yoga asanas into his daily life to grow physically, spiritually, and emotionally.

Thanks again for downloading this book, I hope you enjoy it!

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Table of Contents

Introduction

It is without question: the popular notion of yoga as a wellness practice is highly biased towards the feminine gender; thus, despite knowledge of its immense benefits, most men are reluctant to indulge in a practice society highly considers feminine in nature.

Well, here is the News flash: Yoga is not gender specific; nor is it religion specific. Yoga poses immense benefits to the entire human species irrespective of gender, age, level of flexibility, fitness, etc.

For todays metropolitan male, yoga holds immense benefits. Some of these benefits include:

Builds muscle

Cardio, weight lifting, and other high intensity workouts can help build muscle. On the other hand, yoga widens the range of motion, and helps increase access to muscle fibers, an effect that allows substantial enlargement in various muscle groups. When cells enlarge, it results into enlargement of muscles, referred to as hypertrophy.

Physical fitness experts often advice athletes to practice yoga combined with weight lifting to activate ignored muscle sections such as the serratus inerior located under the armpit and over the side of the rib, and helps stabilize the shoulders. Yoga can help pop up your abs by making this muscle pop up.

Minimizes workout injuries

Men undertake rigorous workout programs in a bid to gain more lean muscles and burn belly fat. Yoga sessions allow you to assess yourself when performing the practice; this in turn reduces the occurrence of injuries on routine activities, or during weighted exercise sessions. With flexible and well-stretched yoga muscles, you can heal and recover faster after weight training or other workout.

Builds energy and boosts recovery

Yoga warms the body, boosts muscle recovery, thus preventing the occurrence of DELAYED ONSET MUSCLE SYNDROME (DOMS).

Exercising produces toxins or metabolic waste that moves from the muscles into the blood stream. Toxins can be easily broken down and flushed out through proper hydration and deep breathing which supplies oxygen to the muscles. Thus, you should stretch to realize benefits that cant be achieved in gyms, especially for athletes who only need proper stretching and hydration to keep the body working optimally.

Yoga builds energy and strength. Its burst of energy comes from the long deep breaths that supply oxygen to the muscles, together with boosting the ability to focus on workouts. Consistently practicing yoga boosts strength through improving the stretch receptor called Golgi tendon organ. The receptor acts as a safety mechanism and can sometime shutdown to hinder muscle injuries. Stretching through yoga allows the muscles to workout freely without shutting down as a response to stretched tendons. The higher the Golgi tendon organ threshold you have, the more intensely you can train to greater strength gains.

Calms your mind

Are you depressed or feeling fatigued after hours of cardio or strength training? Yoga can help relieve various physiological conditions such as clinical depression, without the need to use anti-depressants. The practice also calms the mind and helps you sleep better and for longer, while stimulating the brain function. Compared to other aerobic exercises such as walking or jogging, yoga achieves better results in a few sessions of practice.

Boosts your sex experience

The ability to satisfy your mate in bed can boost your confidence as a man and strengthens your relationship. Actually, yoga can minimize anxiety attacks during love sessions and boost your awareness and confidence.

The practice of yoga also boosts the production, and release of arousal hormones, and increases the supply of blood to the genital areas. Yoga also boosts a womans experience in the bedroom. For women, yoga strengthens the pelvic floor muscles, resulting in powerful orgasms, and greater lubrication.

Relieves stress

Research shows that men are more likely to get stressed or depressed due to day-t0-day challenges and demanding obligations. When practicing yoga, the relaxation and tensing of muscles together with the mindful awareness of the physical sensations helps you relax.

Yoga works to relax your mind and create calmness that you cannot achieve with other workout programs. According to research studies, 8 weeks of yoga practice fights insomnia and improves quality of sleep. Thus, in addition to training your body and achieving flexibility, yoga trains your mind to work from reality.