Triathlete
A little bit about my past, I grew up playing baseball, basketball, golf, and swimming. I went to college and took up weightlifting. I lifted weights pretty extensively until the age of 30.
At 30 I started having more shoulder pains and knee pains, which I always had throughout lifting weights, and i took up endurance sports. Since taking up endurance sports I’ve done a couple Iron Man triathlons and a couple shorter distance triathlons I really fell in love with it, but what I noticed was I was starting to lose a lot of the strength I acquired through weight training.
I was looking for a program to supplement my endurance training because I still like to play golf, pick up basketball, and maybe a game of sand volleyball of the weekends. I was losing some of the strength that I felt I needed to perform where i wanted to in those sports. I didn’t want to go back to traditional weightlifting because of the aches and pains…so i thought I’d try yoga. What Man Flow Yoga has done for the way my body feels, and the way my body performs, was a game changer and is something I will probably continue to do until the day I die.
From a functional strength standpoint, I honestly believe that, for me personally, Man Flow Yoga provides greater benefits than what I would find in a gym. In a gym I would find that I would not activate my glutes no matter how many squats or deadlifts, hence a lot of the knee pain. Through Man Flow Yoga I started growing a butt and my glutes were actually getting stronger.
From a functional standpoint for triathlons, I dont have alot of time to train so it’s important my workout routine is pretty versatile. For vertisility, Man Flow Yoga allows me to recover for triathlon, allows me to strengthen for some of the other activites, enough flexibility for golf and other stuff I’ll do, and it allows me to keep my workout times down to a minimum and get maximum benefits from a limited amount of time put in throughout the week because i have a family, wife and kids.
Man flow yoga has truly changed the way i look at fitness and the way i look at sports performance.
