Walk Like an Animal - The Kong by Scott Sonnan

Circular Strength Training founder and international mobility guru, Scott Sonnon, presents what made him famous in the functional fitness world: his unique approach to animal movements.

Back to Basics - The Yoga Mountain Pose

This simple pose is at the heart of all Yoga practice. 




The Athlete's Guide to Yoga: An Integrated Approach to Strength, Flexibility, and Focus

Forest Flow - The Yoga of Prasara

This is the challenge of prasara:  move from one asana to the next efficiently and without thought. Easier said than done!  

  


PRASARA YOGA: Flow Beyond Thought


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Solid as a Rock - The Basic Boxing Stance

The most important thing in boxing is a foundation that's solid and strong. It's called the boxer's stance, and it's boxing's basic technique.

• Lead foot in front of the head
• Front knee firm but not locked for shock absorbtion
• Keep back heel up to put weight on the ball of the front foot
• Heel to head alignment in the forward lean for a rock stable platform
• Use your front foot as your measuring stick

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Boxing's Ten Commandments: Essential Training for the Sweet Science




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Scott Sonnan - Threaded Scorpion Bridge

Hall of Fame Celebrity Coach Scott Sonnon demonstrates a progression from Prasara Body-Flow yoga: the Threading Scorpion Bridge.  It takes athleticism, concentration, strength, flexibility and sheer guts to attempt a progression like this. The results? An outpouring endorphin that should flood your system with feelings of confidence, well being, and poise.  Nirvana on earth? Maybe not.  But certainly close.

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PRASARA YOGA: Flow Beyond Thought

Prasara is the Sanskit term meaning "flow without thought."  Our natural state of peak experience (Samadhi) is one of relaxation, fluidity, and spontaneity beyond the influence of the ego and its fear reactivity.  In this book, Scott Sonnon presents his unique approach for realizing the creative expression of the self.  If Asana develops structural integrity, and Vinyasa links breathing, then Prasara allows flow to erupt within us.


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Encyclopedia of Clubbell Training

The ancient Indian Art of Clubbells brings strength in motion.  Here master Scott Sonnan gives the basics.





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The Encyclopedia of Clubbell ® Training

Clubbell Training for Circular Strength: An Ancient Tool for the Modern Athlete


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Book Review - The Bodhisattva Warriors

The Bodhisattva Warriors: The Origin, Inner Philosophy, History and Symbolism of the Buddhist Martial Art Within India and China

This unique study of the genesis and development of the earliest form of Buddhist self-defense practiced by Chuan Fa monks and mystics shows both the philosophical and physical basis of the skills developed and passed on to subsequent generations.

There are many who mistakenly believe Buddhism to be a predominately philosophical teaching that regards physical and spiritual being as incompatible, or even antagonistic, toward each other.  This book seeks to reunite these concepts.

The material is presented so readers can understand that what we think of as competitive sport is really a meditation mandala in action.



 

Dumbell Dead Lift - The Right Way

Dead lifts can be intimidating, but you can start off with a dumbell lift and a lighter weight so as to emphasize form.  Proper form is everything, and the optimum position of your back can spell the difference between success and disaster!  Do it right!



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Men's Health Ultimate Dumbbell Guide: More Than 21,000 Moves Designed to Build Muscle, Increase Strength, and Burn Fat 


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Beef Up Your Boxing - The Right Cross

Get your defenses up.  What good is working out if you can't use your fitness for self defense?  Here are the basics of the right cross, one of boxing's basic moves. Drive up through the ground from the legs to the hips to the body to the shoulders to the fist. Concentrated energy in one quick and coordinated movement.  The essence of functional fitness. 




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Book Review: Relax into Stretch

Relax into Stretch : Instant Flexibility Through Mastering Muscle Tension

Instant Flexibility Through Mastering Muscle Tension.  An illustrated guide to the 36 most effective techniques for super flexibility.

• How the secret of mastering your emotions can add immediate inches to your stretch
• How to wait out your tension - the surprising key to greater mobility and a better stretch
• How to fool your reflexes into giving you all the stretch you want
• Why contract-relax stretching is 267% more effective than conventional relaxed stretching
•  How to breathe your way to greater flexibility
• Using the Russian technique of Forced Relaxation as your ultimate stretching weapon 
• How to stretch when injured - faster, safer, ways to heal
• Young, old, male, female - learn what stretches are best for you and what stretches to avoid
• Why excessive flexibility can be detrimental to athletic performance
• Plateau-busting strategies for the chronically inflexible 

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Trail Running!

Running on hilly single track trails with obstacles, other users and trip hazards needs a different approach. Get comfortable, take shorter strides, stay flexible and alert.  Enjoy yourself!




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The Ultimate Guide to Trail Running, 2nd: Everything You Need to Know About Equipment * Finding Trails * Nutrition * Hill Strategy * Racing * Avoiding Injury * Training * Weather * Safety

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Power Breathing for Maximum Strength

In this incredible demonstration martial artist Mike Gillette shows how concentration on the breath can unify the neuro-muscular system for a maximum sustained effort. Be prepared to be amazed!





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Power Walking!

Walking is a great exercise but paying attention to form and intensity can make a difference. Keeping it aerobic is the ticket.

As always consult your doctor before undertaking any new exercise or supplement.


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The Beginner's Guide to Power Walking

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Yoga For Back Pain.

If you suffer from back pain, be sure to consult your doctor before trying any self help exercises or medication!

What Did Cavemen Eat? The Paleolithic Diet.

Our bodies may not have been designed for processed foods. Or even for grains which have appeared as bulk food only in the last 10,000 years.  So what did our ancestor cavemen eat?  The Paleolithic diet. Can it make a caveman out of you?




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The Paleo Diet for Athletes: A Nutritional Formula for Peak Athletic Performance

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Neck Bridges the safe way.

Neck bridging can be an intimidating exercise for the novice. Here its done slowly and safely to build you to the next level of strength conditioning.


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 Training for Warriors: The Ultimate Mixed Martial Arts Workout

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Strength Training Animal Walks: The Bear

Animals move naturally with power and grace.  Build your power base by copying nature in the wild.



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Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Theory and Technique (Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu series)

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Superfoot stretches! The amazing Bill Wallace.

Bill "Superfoot" Wallace is an American martial artist who was a Professional Karate Association world full- contact karate champion. He was the Professional Karate Association (PKA) Middleweight Champion kickboxer for over 15 years. Here he shows his remarkable flexibility and range of stretch.  Inspirational!


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Dynamic Stretching and Kicking

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Andrei Ram - Yoga Handstand

Andrei Ram is a Yoga master who brings his particular expertise to the handstand.  Everything in yoga is expansion and stretch and even in the handstand Andrei counsels to avoid compression in the shoulders, a common mistake in western handstand technique.

Fighting gravity getting you nowhere? Why less is more in stretching.

Garbage in, garbage out.  The theory that you need to force your muscles to stretch may be just that, a theory.  Wonder why you're not getting results?  Stop trying and learn to relax.  Less may be more.  Let Pavel Tsatsouline show you why.







Relax into Stretch : Instant Flexibility Through Mastering Muscle Tension


Instant Flexibility Through Mastering Muscle Tension.  An illustrated guide to the 36 most effective techniques for super flexibility.

• How the secret of mastering your emotions can add immediate inches to your stretch
• How to wait out your tension - the surprising key to greater mobility and a better stretch
• How to fool your reflexes into giving you all the stretch you want
• Why contract-relax stretching is 267% more effective than conventional relaxed stretching
•  How to breathe your way to greater flexibility
• Using the Russian technique of Forced Relaxation as your ultimate stretching weapon 
• How to stretch when injured - faster, safer, ways to heal
• Young, old, male, female - learn what stretches are best for you and what stretches to avoid
• Why excessive flexibility can be detrimental to athletic performance
• Plateau-busting strategies for the chronically inflexible 

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