{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Dr Kumar Discovery","title":"A Yoga Expert and a Spine Surgeon Agree on the One Exercise Everyone Needs | Dean Pohlman","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3296,"description":"If sitting all day has left your back stiff, your glutes asleep, and your shoulders rounding forward, the tool behind this episode, Man Flow Yoga, is built to fix exactly that. Dean Pohlman's app has over 50 structured programs running from five to sixty minutes, and you can grab a discount with code Kumar.\nMost guys picture yoga as a stretching class for people who are already flexible, something to skip if you already lift or run. But a 2017 study found yoga is just as effective as physical therapy for treating chronic lower back pain, and that's just the start. Isometric holds, breath training, and nervous system regulation are measurable, trainable, and largely missing from the average gym routine.\nDean Pohlman is the founder of Man Flow Yoga and one of the most recognized voices in men's fitness and yoga today. His father was an oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic for over three decades and helped start a yoga program at the Taussig Cancer Center. Dean grew up playing lacrosse, baseball, and soccer, and found yoga by accident in 2012 when he wandered into a studio while looking for a tailor.\nDean built a spinal health program with what he believes is the largest physical therapy clinic in Texas, and it rests on four pillars: spinal strength, spinal mobility, core strength, and hip mobility, which is exactly what yoga postures train. Ravi has a phrase for what happens without that training: life is a kyphosing event, a lifetime of flexing forward that leaves the front and back of the body out of balance until weak muscles start spasming because they can't pull back against stronger ones. He admits heavy compound lifting never prepared him for that kind of work, and he was skeptical of yoga himself until he finally tried it at 40.\nIsometric holds like planks, single-leg bridges, and scapular stability work relieve pain over time and rebuild the basic ability to use a muscle the way it's meant to be used, which is why hitting the gym without that activation can...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1b0HAhl7LyS1JMvttJBUPVo13Xhw89dNIYFNVWa7Un0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NGVi/ODc5ZmE2MTI0Njdj/NWRjODE2NTkzNTQ0/ZjY0Yi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}