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4 reasons every athlete should do yoga + remember this free yoga for runners download?

Rich Roll is a two-time top finisher at the Ultraman World Championships. In 2010, he became the the first person (along with colleague Jason Lester) to complete EPIC5 – 5 ironman-distance triathlons on 5 Hawaiian Islands in under a week. He knows a bit about being an athlete, apparently. He recently wrote an article about why every athlete [...]

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If you can sit + stand up from the floor, you will live longer.

Have you noticed the very strong squatting theme round here lately? Here’s (another reason) why. Squatting develops musculo-skeletal fitness, in a way that, say, walking, doesn’t. When you are strong, supple, and balanced, things like sitting down on the floor and then getting back up are easy. And there is evidence to suggest that this particular [...]

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Good squatting technique

  As I said on this blog last week, squatting is awfully good for you. Done right, of course. I’ve found YET another article to support this. It has a great illustration, for one: Also, it quotes Kelly Starrett who you are about to watch in the below video. One Hundred Percent of people I [...]

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How and why to squat right

Have you heard of Asian squatting? It is, apparently, the RIGHT kind of squatting, just like squatting to go to the toilet is, ahhh, much healthier for you. This post phrases it nicely: Get this, when you squat, a bend between your rectum and anus elongates, allowing for a complete evacuation of the bowels. Normal [...]

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realestate.com.au Finance Conference – Yoga in Pictures

The good people of  realestate.com.au have been loyal mm…Yogis for some time now. We provide yoga as part of their corporate health & wellness strategy, and this year, they amped things up a notch. They got mm…Yoga! in to teach a meditation class at the HR Team’s annual strategy session, and a morning yoga, breathing [...]

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