Yoga for Regular Guys: The Best Damn Workout on the Planet!

inflammatory chemicals to flood the affected area, which results in more stiffness and pain to an injured area and increases the amount of time that it takes to heal. In other words, heat on an injured joint could lock rather than loosen you up. Electric heating pads are known to actually weaken scar tissue or injured muscles by “cooking” or denaturing the proteins in injured muscle, causing decreased stability in the area and increased inflammatory response. Trust me, guys, people with bad backs or necks who refuse to ice but would rather sleep on a heating pad make chiropractic kinesiologists like me crazy. They “undo” all our good work, and then they can’t figure out why they’re not healing quickly.
    So when do you use heat and what type of heat should you use?
    Moist heat is great if you have morning stiffness, and no, we’re not talking about the “early morning missile crisis.” We’re talking about arthritic joint pain and stiffness upon waking—without redness, swelling, or loss of function. This type of pain could come from arthritis, like a twenty-year-old injury that has come back for a visit when the barometer drops. If you have these symptoms, then a hot shower will get you going. Back in high school, I developed a ritual of taking a hot shower before each basketball game as a way to warm up my body. It’s a ritual I still keep today—except these days, my showers are a lot hotter and a lot longer. The key to preventative maintenance here is to keep your body warm and flexible to decrease the chance of injury.
    Today, after a hot shower, I dress in sweats and start right into my YRG workout, which keeps me warm and flexible. If I happen to use some moist heat, I may wrap a warm towel around my back until I’m good and warm from my workout. And trust me, guys, our workout will get you beyond warm in no time at all!

ORGANIC FOODS

    Let’s put it like this: You take a vegetable that’s grown in today’s soil, which isn’t clean (the way your great-grandfather’s soil was before all the pesticides), and then you take that vegetable and spray pesticides on it and then spray enhancers, and then, for extra measure, you spray on some preservatives—and
guess what
? Your veggie may have half the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes than an organic one has. Now cook it, and, well, you might as well eat the napkin in front of you because you will get the same amount of nutrition. Okay, maybe that’s a little stiff, but it’s close. Most people have no idea what the hell they are eating today, especially all of us raised in this processed food world.
    You see, as you’ve now heard me say many times, I didn’t even start my career as a professional wrestler until I was thirty-five years old, so I had to find ways to hold back the hands of time. I found that a healthy diet could help slow those hands down. I also found that the rule “everything in moderation” was even better. The strength of our digestive system is the key to how we assimilate and synthesize our food/fuel and turn it into energy. The better we take care of our digestive system, which consists of the stomach, the small intestines, and the colon, the longer and stronger we live. Thekey? It’s the quality of the fuel that we put into our bodies that gives us the energy to fight the fight and win the war against time. And if you put the purest, most nutrient-rich food into your body to cleanse and heal your digestive system, then all the organs and bodily systems can run more efficiently.
    YOGA-DOC SAYS …
    The food pyramid folks suggest that you eat five to seven or even nine servings of fruit and vegetables per day to receive your Recommended Daily Allowance of nutrients and fiber in your diet. Organically grown fruit and vegetables are pesticide free, hence healthier for you; plus, they give you the highest vitamin, mineral, and natural enzyme content of any food on the planet. They give you the most
bang
for your buck! Now that you know this, why would you want to put anything but organically grown foods in your tank?
    WhyOrganic Juice?
    I’m willing to bet that most of the Regular Guys throughout the United States don’t get five to nine servings of organic fruits and veggies per day. If they did, they’d have no room for chips, beef, fish, chicken wings, brats, and beer. But sooner or later we have to look at our diet and see which foods are our everyday staples and which ones need to move to the “special