Have you been training hard for years and years, but are ready for a form of exercise that isn’t as tough on your joints? You’re concerned with maintaining the physique you’ve worked hard for, but you also recognize that your body needs more mobility and recovery work than you’ve given it.
Congratulations, you fit perfectly into the Low Impact Exercise for Strength path, and we’ve got the workouts you need to keep your muscle mass, but also start to work on your mobility, relieve the constant soreness in your muscles and joints, and get you back to moving and feeling great.
If you’re here, you probably recognize that your exercise routine needs more mobility, functional training and recovery work than you’ve done in the past, and you’re looking for a program you can trust to deliver results.
Hey guys, my name is Dean welcome to Man Flow Yoga and welcome to the low-impact exercise for functional strength path from Man Flow Yoga. Now that was a mouthful but I want to explain what I mean by that.
So for me yoga has always been about the fitness. I’ve been to hundreds of yoga classes in person and while I enjoyed the postures and the exercises that we were doing, the spiritual side of yoga never quite hit home with me. For me it was always about the fitness and what I really liked about yoga was that the exercises, I realized, could form a fantastic foundation of physical fitness. So that was a lot of alliteration there but what I realized was that this could form a really solid foundation of physical fitness, in terms of building strength, body weight control, flexibility, balance, mobility all these things that you need in order to do anything fitness wise, whether that’s running, weight lifting, or playing sports and that I also wasn’t getting from a lot of my other workouts.
So this aspect of slow controlled movement and so this is for people who are interested in building or maintaining muscle mass, for people who are interested in the most efficient most effective workout they can get from yoga, and what we’ve done is also taken the best yoga postures are the most effective yoga postures, and added in some bodyweight exercises as well…so we’re not limiting ourselves to yoga.
We are limiting ourselves to low-impact or no impact exercise, but we aren’t limiting ourselves to specific yoga postures because ultimately you’re here because you want to get results, not because you have to practice you know yoga specific way. So this is a great option people who want to get the best results they possibly can with yoga, who want to build a solid foundation of fitness, to enable you to do what you physically want to do during the day, to do it without pain and feel great otherwise.
So check out the success stories we have for this particular path, check out our recommended programming, our summary of recommended programming below here and then investigate the rest of the page if you want to learn a bit more about this, but I hope to welcome you to the Man Flow Yoga members’ area soon.
Thanks for watching this video and I’ll see you later.
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Summary of Programming
Program 1 – The Burnout Recovery Program
Program 2 – The Strength Foundations Course
Supplementary Content
Aside from programs, you’ll want to focus on the following types of workouts (use workout search filters):
- Strength – especially important if you are not doing weights anymore, you’ll want to focus on maintaining your strength.
- Mobility – Address your neglected mobility but get stronger at the same time.
- Restorative – Did you know that for every minute you spend working out, you should also spend one minute doing recovery? Start doing this more.
- Balance – Something you’re probably not doing in your other workouts, but an exercise that will help you get much stronger.
- Overall – Work on everything. These are balanced workouts that cover strength, mobility, flexibility, balance, and maybe even a bit of recovery.
- Self-Myofascial Release – Help to uncover restricted muscle tissue, undo knots, and improve your flexibility.
When to do these workouts:
- You can do restorative workouts at the opposite time of day of your more intense workouts. (So if you lift weights in the morning, you can do a restorative yoga workout that night.)
- Give yourself at least 6-8 hours between workouts if you plan on “doubling” up. Don’t follow up a difficult strength-focused yoga session with a weight lifting session, unless it’s a limited weight training session and you’re using the yoga as a warm-up.
What other workouts / types of exercises should you be doing?
- Whatever other workouts you enjoy. Just make sure you’re giving yourself adequate rest between workouts, and be wary of overtraining symptoms.
- Make sure you are doing some pulling exercises (rows, pull-ups, etc) in addition to the yoga workouts you are following. These can be found in the Exercises, Tutorials, & More section.
