6 Reasons Yogas Great for Guys By Denis Faye All right, gentlemen—how often have you been in this situation? Its Thursday afternoon and you got off work a little early. Its been a stressful week and you could use a good sweat. You try to get a few friends together for some hoops, but no luck, so you pop in a P90X® workout. Which one do you pick? Im betting most of you went for Shoulders & Arms or Chest & Back. A couple of you iconoclasts might have slid Plyometrics into the DVD player. But odds are none of you picked Yoga X. And why not? Well, despite the fact that Yoga X features Tony Horton, the most manly of all manly men, and despite the fact that its a gruelingly difficult 90 minutes, when presented with this ancient practice, most men choose to listen to their inner caveman and come to the same conclusion: Yoga is for girls. And thats just sad, because the truth is that yoga probably has more to offer the typical brute-force-lovin, emotion-repressin, stretch-avoidin, pain-ignorin American male than it does to any other human being on the planet. Heres why . . . Women dig guys who do yoga If youve seen the Mel Gibson film What Women Want, you know that the first thing Mel does when he gets the power to read womens minds is hit the yoga studio. Yoga has its own language, and if you speak that language fluently, youre in. Next time youre at a party and you overhear three babes talking about their yoga preferences, slide in with, Normally, I prefer hatha, but sometimes I do a little kundalini, you know, just to take off the edge. You just got yourself three dates. I guarantee it. Yoga promotes body awareness One of the main things new yoga practitioners, both men and women, complain about is the fact that yoga is booooo-ring. When you first start, this may be true, but if you stick with it, thingsll change. With other activities, youre forced to pay attention to whats happening around you. With yoga, the trick is to stop looking for those external stimuli and start looking internally. Im not talking about the whole hippie spiritual thing; Im talking about feeling how your body is reacting to the poses. This increased body awareness can translate to a more intuitive ability to improve in other physical pursuits, as well as a heightened awareness of whats happening internally when you incur a sports-related injury. With a little time, you might even be able to work toward lessening the effect of such damage before it even has a chance to happen. Read more: teambeachbody/about/newsletters/-/nli/218#106487446
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 19:00:02 +0000
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