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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.7046
EAN num: 9780757301124
ISBN number: 0757301126
Label: HCI
Manufacturer: HCI
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 280
Printing Date: August 01, 2003
Publishing house: HCI
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With its revolutionary approach to yoga and innovative, male-oriented instruction, Real Men Do Yoga will be the definitive guide for both novice and veteran men who are discovering the innumerable physical and mental benefits of yoga.
Satisfying the male fascination with sports and admiration for athletes are interviews with more than twenty pros, all of whom are enthusiastic yoga practitioners: football's Eddie George, Shannon Sharpe and Amani Toomer; baseball pitchers Barry Zito (2002 Cy Young Award winner) and Al Leiter, star hockey goalie Sean Burke and NBA superstar Kevin Garnett as well as pro golfers and tennis players.
Photos of sports stars doing yoga, such as football greats Dan Marino and Chris Carter, drive home a powerful message. Each chapter offers a combination of stretches and strength-builders that target and benefit specific areas:
- Conquering back pain (which afflicts an estimated 10 million men)
- Improving sports performance including yoga for golf, running, basketball, tennis and more
- Increasing flexibility in the upper body, spine and lower body
- Building muscle strength
- Improving sexual performance
In a sea of yoga books aimed at women, Real Men Do Yoga is an easily accessible, 'non-New Agey' guidebook that takes something mysterious to American men and offers a reassuringly effective and practical guide that they'll actually use.
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Full disclosure - I am a complete newbie when it comes to yoga. This probably explains why I picked up this book in the very first place - an experienced yoga practitioner probably doesn't need to turn to a book for guidance.
But as a newbie, I can highly recommend this book for its easy-to-understand yet comprehensive walk-through of basic yoga.
At first, I was turned off by the use of famous professional athletes in this book. I prided myself on being from a more cynical generation than my parents, where they bought Mr. Coffee because Joe DiMaggio was its spokesman. So I was bit turned off by the prominent photos of Eddie George and Dan Marino, to name but two of the prominent athletes depicted in this book. I'm well aware that pro athletes will do anything for a buck, so their pictures in the book did nothing to impress me.
But then I read the book, and the athletes' testimonials started to make sense when I started to understand the exercises described in its pages. And thanks to those thorough - yet basic! - explanations, I have been able to start my very first yoga routines.
And that's saying something, because I'm the last guy that anyone would expect to pick up yoga - stiff as a board, father of two young girls with no free time whatsoever.
But this book worked for me. It lays out reasonable explanations of why I should do these exercises. No mysticism, no tapping into my inner being, just good plain common sense - even in the section about meditation!
If you're an experienced yoga practitioner, this is probably not the book for you. But if you're a guy and you're looking to give yoga a shot, this is one of the better books you can pick up. It's educational, cautious (no "You'll look better and start turning heads in 10 days!" promises), and yet optimistic about the benefits yoga can provide to the average American male who gives it a try.
All in all, well worth the investment.
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I gave this as a gift. He never used it. It may be a great product but I will never know.
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After reading the other reviews, and looking inside the book, I knew this wasn't going to have as many different postures or routines as other books. I hoped to get some motivation to practice more regularly and I did get that. Just reading about the many benefits to making a yoga routine a regular part of your life got me motivated to practice almost every day. Right now I'm lucky of I do 30-45 mintutes a day, six days a week, but even with that little practice, I'm seeing a difference in the way I feel.
It feels good to be getting looser. I don't know whether I'll ever be able to do the lotus or even half lotus, and to be honest I'm not ever going to try crossing my legs behind my head. (I am trying to talk my wife into that one, however.)
Anyway, Real Men Do Yoga is a good book if you are looking for motivation and for proof that it is possible to get strong using yoga although not the same kind of strength you get from lifting. It is not a book with comprehensive routines.
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I purchased this book for my boss. He was a little thrown in the beginning, knowing that he isn't able to compete at the level these men are, but....he's still happy with the book itself!
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It's tricky to learn yoga from a book, especially when limited to sporadic grey & white shots every other page. the book does a good job of taking someone mildly athletic who has never done yoga (me) through a few good stretches. There are some great flexibility-improvers. Plus, I liked the quotes and inspiration from the top jocks.
Plus - how did they get Eddie George on the cover?!?! What a great selling idea. If he and his atlas quads can do this stuff, I ought to be able to . . .
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