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

endurance, muscle tone, oxygen uptake, and improved confidence. YRG exercises also improve your posture, increase your energy levels, reduce stress, help you sleep better, and burn fat! That’s right, you can lose weight, get into shape, and feel better by putting in three or four days a week! Now if the twenty-minute program really gets you charged and you want to move forward, this book will show you how to increase your workouts to thirty minutes and even forty-five minutes. We’ve also added five- and ten-minute routines just to get you energized in the middle of the day. You will notice that proper breathing while doing the YRG workout increases blood flow, which can give you instant energy.
    Yoga is definitely becoming mainstream in the United States, but it has yet to reach the Regular Guy. And that’s not going to happen until the Regular Guy has someone teaching him whom he can relate to. I am that guy. I spent half of my life in nightclubs, drinking and throwing parties that would have made Caligula blush. Hell, I graduated from Regular Guy University,
summa cum laude
. I’m a professional wrestler! So you can trust me on this.

ALL RIGHT, I’M GAME: WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO?

    You might be thinking, “How much equipment do I have to buy to do this yoga thing?” Once you know what you’re doing, all you need is
you
. If you want to see your results right in front of you, I suggest you get a heart monitor to help you stay in your fat-burning zone, a yoga mat, some shorts, a T-shirt, and your bare feet. And, you can do yoga anywhere: at home, in a hotel room, anywhere—no gym membership required.
    First, we’ll teach you about breathing properly and how important it is for you to move and breathe in a specific way to get the most out of your YRG workouts.
    Next, you’ll learn your specific target heart rate and how to monitor your heart rate during these workouts so that you can maximize your cardiovascular and fat-burning benefits. Regular Guys like to see results right in front of their eyes. You guys will be blown away when you see just how high your heart rate will actually go while doing the simplest positions. It may all sound pretty complicated, but I promise that we will use the KISS method of teaching: “Keep It Stupidly Simple” and very easy to follow.
    The twenty-minute program will get you moving and build your flexibility and endurance. I’m going to give you basic moves to get you started, and I won’t have you twisted up like a pretzel. As you continue your workouts, you will notice that the tougher yoga positions willbe the ones that give you the most benefit. However, even if you stick with the more basic program, you will keep getting stronger, more flexible, more centered, leaner, and healthier.

OH, AND ONE MORE BENEFIT I HAVEN’T MENTIONED YET …

    Let’s see: more relaxed, less fatigued, better range of motion, increased nerve flow and blood flow to all parts of the body. That sounds like a prescription for a better sex life to me! You gotta know, it’s all about the flow. Guys, the couple that does yoga together has better sex—go figure. (For starters
she’s
more flexible, if you get my drift.)
    And if you’re single …
fuhgeddaboudit
! I can’t think of a better place to meet women who are in, or already on their way to being in, great shape with great, flexible bodies than in the yoga studio.
    Come to think of it, I bet the reason all the Regular Guys who’ve been doing yoga for years have never smartened the rest of us up is because they want to keep all those hot yoga-babes for themselves.
    So, bro, what are you waiting for? DDP is ready to take you back where you belong. It’s all about feeling better today than you did yesterday, right? So let’s do it! What the hell, give it a shot!
    A WORD FROM THE WIFE
    When I first tried to get Dallas to try yoga as a way to help his back pain, I was surprised by his reaction. He didn’t even want to try it! Page is famously open-minded and receptive, but he turned me down FLAT! “That stuff’s for chicks,” he grumbled. But one day, his lower back was feeling particularly stiff. After some gentle cajoling, I got him to join me downstairs.
    After twenty minutes, he was sweating, straining, and grunting through the poses like it was football practice. In extended side angle pose, I could see him glancing over at me, attempting to go as deeply into it as I was. “No, honey,” I chuckled. “You’re supposed to