Yoga For Men Starters Guide

Author: Jaryd Haelwaeters

If you are not a yoga practitioner already, then you must've a lack of intimate with the whole yoga concept and you may have a funny feeling about it. Because all you know about yoga is the jaw-dropping, super bendy, pretzel poses that you watch your girlfriend doing every morning. Relax! You don't need to do all those, just for your own personal fitness and required flexibility that helps your day to day life easier and makes your performance better. You can work on your yoga poses at home by yourself.
Top 10 yoga benefits for men -

• Your body awareness and self-confidence will increase

• You train your mental and physical strength

• You get more energy for the gym

• It channels your anger in a positive way. Some men may need a way to lose their anger and this is an ideal way.

• You will become a womanizer. Women find men who do yoga super hot. If you already have a girlfriend, you can do yoga together.

• A healthy way to get rid of cigarettes. Yoga will reduce your stress.

• You suffer from stiff muscles? Try yoga for a month, and become more flexible than your girlfriend.

• It increases your productivity in your spare time, at work or in bed.

• You strengthen your immune system, so you're less susceptible to diseases.

• Your willpower and perseverance will increase. It will be easier for you to say no to bad habits.

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Some basic yoga for men poses are described below:

• MOUNTAIN (Tadasana)
  

Stand on your feet, toes attached but heels apart. Balance the body weight on your feet and lift your arches. Contract your thigh muscles to get the kneecaps lifted upward. Avoid to lock your knees. With inhalation, lighten your spine, stretch your head towards sky. Keep the shoulders relaxed and exhale slowly. It gives your feet flexibility and works on your thighs.

• TREE (Vrksasana)
  

First stand straight, then bend left leg and put your sole on the right knee or the right thigh. Balance on the right leg by putting toes pointed. Keep your left thigh parallel to the floor. Place both your palms in front of the chest and touch each other. Take breath slowly and after some time switch sides. It strengthen your calves muscle, ankles and thighs.

• STANDING FORWARD BEND (Uttanasana)
  

Get to the mountain pose with hands on hips. Bend forward and touch your chest with your chin. Place your hands in hanging in front and keep your fingertips slightly in front of your feet. Inhale and cross your forearms to hold over elbows. Move your hands upward slowly. Keep your chin tucked and come up, afterwards do same again. This will give flexibility to your hamstrings and stretch your muscles around spine.

• WARRIOR I (Virabhadrasana I)
  

From mountain pose, bring right foot forward and raise arms overhead. Rotate left foot 45 to 60 degrees to your left. Bend right knee over the ankle. Keep your hips parallel to the room. Bend your upper back slightly by raising your chest upward. Bring palms together facing each other and keep hands wider as the shoulder is. Look forward or up at your thumbs. Repeat by switching sides. It improves your sense of balance and strengthen your ankles, thighs, and calves, stretches your lungs, shoulders, chest, and groin.

• DOWNWARD FACING DOG (Adho Mukha Svanasana)
  

Get your body on your hands and knees. Place your hands on the floor horizontally in front of the shoulders and keep your knees bended below the hips. Press on your hands and with exhalation, lift up your knees keeping it slightly bent. Press heels downward with thighs straighten the legs while your spine is lengthen towards the ceiling. Keep pressure on your index fingers and draw the shoulder blades against the back. After a moment drop the knees on the floor. This helps to strengthen legs and arms and stretch the hamstrings, wrist, calves and shoulders.

• LOCAST (Salabhasana)
  

Lie down on the mat with keeping your belly down and hands beside hips. Put your toes faced towards each other so that the thighs gets rolled inward. With exhalation, lift up your head, chest, hands, and legs upward and put pressure on your belly and balance your weight with lower ribs, belly, and pelvis. With inhalation, push your head and legs backward to lengthen your spine. After this low down on slow exhale. It strengthens the buttock as well as the muscle of the back of arms and legs. It also lengthen the chest and shoulders.
Thus you can perform yoga on your own and acquire an attractive manly shaped body figure.


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About the Author
Jaryd Haelwaeters is a freelance writer, and owner of the website onlineyogaposes.com. He writes for many online publications. His goal is to spread the word of yoga, one person at a time.