The “yoga butt” is for real

Ever heard of the “yoga butt”? No, I’m not making that up. Yoga practitioners are so famous for having great butts that they even invented a term for it.

I firmly believe that if you want to look better, you have to actually change your SHAPE. Losing weight won’t do it. It’s the form of the muscle under your skin that gives you your “look.”

And good yoga is a fantastic way to redesign your body and shape your muscles. After all, yoga is a systematic approach to bodyweight resistance training. You have to actively control the weight of your body in space during a yoga session — and that tones and shapes your muscles.

The most important body parts to develop when you’re redesigning your body are the butt, hips, shoulders and core. By carefully reshaping these areas, you’ll get closer to the “golden ratio” that gives you a universal visual appeal that’s hardwired into our human psyche.

The weight bearing poses of yoga are the perfect way to work on those key body parts. Regular yoga practice increases insulin sensitivity. Perfect, if you’re trying to lose fat and sculpt a more shapely body!

For years, I thought I was just injury prone. No matter what I was doing at the time — football, hockey, sailing, skiing or even just jogging — it seemed like I was always pulling or tweaking something.

It’s incredibly frustrating to be so close to the top of your game — or almost at your hard won physique goal — and then to get injured. All your progress comes to a grinding halt. And you feel like you have to start the whole journey over again once you heal.

 

 

I rarely get the kind of injuries that used to completely derail my training

 

 

Not only that, but once you do feel better you’re constantly worried it’s going to happen again. And it usually does. Because the ROOT of the problem is still there…

Muscle imbalance.

Yep, it call comes back to keeping your body in balance. Nowadays, I rarely get the kind of injuries that used to completely derail my training and other activities. I train hard, so I get the odd tweak. But nothing like back in the day when I was convinced I was “injury prone.”

The simple practice of keeping my muscles in balance has allowed me to work out harder and play harder without constantly looking over my shoulder, waiting for an injury to happen.