Yoga-Paws come in both men’s and women’s sizes and are adjustable to fit any body type in the spectrum. Available through Yoga-Syz, they are durable and resist wear and tear. They can be used every day whether you’re at home or on the road. Nothing is more convenient, and because they take up so little room, they can be tucked away in a drawer until you’re ready to use them.

Even the most advanced yoga poses are made easy with the use of Yoga-Paws. From beginning to end, your yoga workout will be fun and rewarding with Yoga-Paws. Yoga-Paws enable you to perform warm-up poses, standing poses, seated poses, backbends, supine poses, prone poses, balance poses, and inverted postures comfortably and accurately on virtually any non-abrasive surface. This means you can use them outdoors as well.

Remember that even with the use of Yoga-Paws, yoga is a demanding and rigorous discipline that requires constant practice. Don’t get discouraged if you can’t master the Dhanurasana (the Bow) on your first try. Instead, do only what is comfortable at first and gradually work up to the more difficult poses. Yoga is meant to relieve pressure and tension. If you feel pain during your workout, stop. It is important to exercise common sense in all things, including yoga.
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Unfortunately, many people are too busy and spend too much time traveling to take yoga classes at the gym or a studio. It is still critical, however, that you learn from a certified professional. An ideal way to do this is to order instructional yoga videos from an online resource. Yoga-Syz is proud to offer high-quality instructional videos and DVDs for your use and enjoyment.

Yoga-Syz workout videos are the creation of certified trainer and avid yoga enthusiast Gail Getzwiller. Gail has more than 30 years of experience practicing and teaching yoga and her instructional videos are fun and invigorating. If you spend a lot of time on the road and have limited time available to work out, you will especially benefit from Gail’s double workout video. This video includes two condensed workouts that allow you to experience the benefits of yoga in a short time.

The first workout focuses on traditional Hatha yoga exercises while the second workout incorporates other traditional exercises like sit-ups and push-ups. Gail’s instructional style is relaxed and engaging–just what you need from a yoga workout! Order your instructional video today with a pair of Yoga-Paws for the perfect portable workout system.
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Training for muscular flexibility and strengthening muscles that stabilize joints are largely ignored; aerobic training is usually only performed in an effort to reduce body fat percentage in the month or two before a bodybuilding competition. Although a common misperception is that yoga is only for women or the elderly, a regular yoga routine can compliment a bodybuilding regimen by offering a number of health benefits and a potential competitive advantage.

Regular yoga can improve the strength of the stabilizer muscles which are the muscles that help to maintain balance and posture and are rarely a focus in a typical bodybuilding routine. Stabilizer muscles stabilize a joint so that other muscles can help to move the joint. Examples of these muscles are the abdominal obliques, gluteus medius and the peroneals. Most weight stack machines require very little stabilizer muscle activity because the weights move in a linear motion and require no balance. Training with free weights utilizes the stabilizer muscles to a greater degree than weight stack machines, but still does not directly target them.

By practicing yoga and holding different postures where muscle contractions are maintained in off-balance positions, the stabilizing muscles are directly targeted, unlike any weights offered in a health club. Because these contractions are intense and target different muscles than normal bodybuilding workouts, muscular growth in these muscles will occur, which could ultimately make the difference between winning and losing a bodybuilding competition.

Yoga can also improve body symmetry by improving posture and eliminating muscular imbalances. Pectorals, biceps, abdominals and quadriceps (the mirror muscles) often receive the most emphasis in a bodybuilding training routine. However, muscles on the back of the body; lats, trapezius, hamstrings, and calves, are often neglected. This can lead to muscular imbalances that can affect body symmetry and posture.

The benefit of yoga is that it involves every muscle in the body. Therefore, chronic muscle imbalances can be corrected and better body symmetry and posture can be attained with a regular yoga routine. No amount of weight lifting, cardio or supplementing with vitamins, liquid vitamins or protein supplements will take the place of regular yoga exercise.

Yoga can also improve muscular flexibility and lower the risk for muscle tears. This enhanced flexibility can ultimately result in improved muscle strength resulting in muscle growth. Each muscle has a Golgi tendon organ, which is located in the muscle-tendon junction and functions to prevent dangerously strong muscle contractions to avoid muscle injury. Stretching a muscle regularly will raise the force threshold required for the Golgi tendon organ to be activated. This will result in the ability to lift greater weights before reaching muscle failure due Golgi tendon organ activation. Increases in muscular flexibility can also improve overall aesthetics on stage. Without a regular stretching routine, bodybuilders can become muscle bound, which is when the muscles grow large, but appear tight and rigid. Improving muscle flexibility with yoga will allow a more natural posture, which will improve onstage aesthetics.

Most bodybuilders find aerobic training terribly boring; stationary bicycling, elliptical trainers, uphill walking on treadmills and easy jogging are the most common training methods. Intense yoga can burn the same number of calories than easy jogging or moderate stationary cycling. Participation in yoga classes can also help increase the motivation to perform aerobic training since exercise compliance is usually better in group settings. The calorie burning effects of yoga combined with the additional health benefits make it a great occasional substitute for traditional aerobic training in a bodybuilding routine.

Possibly the greatest potential benefit of regular yoga in bodybuilders is improving the ability to maintain onstage poses. Bodybuilders are judged in competitions and scored on attributes such as muscularity, leanness, symmetry, and overall stage presence. Muscularity, leanness, and symmetry are mainly established before the competition through intensive training, proper nutrition, and dietary supplementation. However, stage presence is assessed by judges with the bodybuilder holding many different poses to highlight different muscle groups.

These poses require intense isometric muscle contractions, when the muscle contracts but does not move, and may lead to exhaustion before the end of the competition if not properly trained for these movements. Yoga can be extremely helpful to bodybuilders because it incorporates numerous isometric contractions in a typical session. Bodybuilders usually have no problems finding the motivation to train with weights, but posing is usually the last thing a bodybuilder wants to do and is usually only practiced in the few weeks before competition, hardly enough time to properly develop the needed isometric strength and endurance to make it through a contest without severe fatigue and shakiness. Regular yoga can maintain high levels of isometric strength year-round and can help to improve what is often the bodybuilder’s weakest link … a relaxed stage presence. Coupled with appropriate supplementation and diet in the form of natural vitamins, yoga can certainly go a long way in helping a body builder reach maximum success.

Overall, yoga should be considered as a compliment and a way to add an overall natural body balance to a bodybuilding regimen. Yoga can improve muscular strength, increase flexibility, reduce injury risk, improve cardiovascular fitness, improve muscular balance, improve posture and help to improve stage presence. The biggest challenge for a bodybuilder is to take the first step, join a yoga class, and overcome the stereotype of a typical yogi, which is opposite the image bodybuilders often try to present. However, taking this critical step could ultimately prove to be the difference between victory and defeat in a bodybuilding competition.

Dr. Linda Posch MS SLP ND

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The best clothing for this type of workout is neither tight nor loose. It must fit comfortably without being too baggy and it must not constrict your range of motion. Your clothing must be breathable and not inhibit your movements. Clothing that is too tight will be uncomfortable, while clothing that is too loose will get in the way during certain poses.

Gloves are an important piece of yoga apparel. Your hands can sweat heavily during difficult yoga workouts, especially in a hot studio or on the hot sand at the beach. Our leather palm gloves with a stretch back are ideal. The leather palm keeps your hands from slipping while holding stretches and the stretch back allows your skin to breathe and enables you to adjust your gloves to the right size. Men’s and women’s sizes are available.

Yoga-Paws are another integral piece of apparel. They are strapped to your hands and feet and act like mini yoga mats. They provide cushion, grip, and comfort during your session. They’re so small that when your workout’s over, you can just stash them in a drawer or a bag somewhere out of the way. This makes them ideal for travel and for busy people constantly on the go. Email us at info@yogasyz.com if you have any questions about proper yoga apparel.

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Workout equipment has ballooned into an enormous industry in this country and around the world. Large companies produce vast quantities of state of the art fitness equipment to help us build stronger, healthier bodies. What is amazing, though, is that often the most effective workout equipment is the simplest and the least expensive.

Case in point: Yoga-Paws. Produced by a small mother-daughter company, Yoga-Paws are some of the simplest, yet most effective pieces of workout equipment on the market today. They are not expensive like some sophisticated fitness machines, and they allow users to get an invigorating workout from head to toe.

After 30 years of practicing and teaching yoga, Gail Getzwiller wanted to find a way to address one of the most common problems she heard from her students–their inability to practice away from home. Their problem was that when they traveled for business or pleasure, they just didn’t have room in their bags to carry their yoga mats with them. As much as they wanted to work out, space limitations just wouldn’t accommodate a large, cumbersome yoga mat.

The solution she came up with was Yoga-Paws. Yoga-Paws are worn on the hands and feet and provide all the stability, traction, and cushioning of a traditional yoga mat. They are so compact and light, they fit in any bag and can be easily packed and taken on the road. Now yoga practitioners can enjoy their workouts wherever they may find themselves.

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Yoga-Paws are your first and most important accessory. Made and sold exclusively by Yoga-Syz, Yoga-Paws replace traditional yoga mats. Yoga-Paws fit snugly on your hands and the balls of your feet, allowing you to practice your yoga anywhere without the need to carry a large mat around with you. They are equally suited for indoor and outdoor use.

Yoga is a low impact, yet very intense workout. For some people and in some environments, there is going to be a lot of sweating involved. If you’re sweating a lot during workouts, you’ll want to wear gloves. Adjustable wrist straps allow you to fasten gloves securely yet comfortably to maximize your workout. You can review the sizing chart to find gloves that are the right fit for your size.

A Tola Mat is another valuable yoga accessory. The Tola Mat is the perfect complement to your Yoga-Paws. Together they make for the most comfortable, safest yoga workout imaginable. Use them with an instructional video if you’re new to yoga, or with a relaxing yoga-inspired album by Satyaa and Pari filled with chants and spiritually uplifting songs that will take you closer than ever to the harmony and oneness that is at the center of all things.

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If there is something missing from your life, yoga may be just the answer you’re looking for. Many of us find ourselves so busy with work (especially jobs that require frequent travel) that we just can’t find the time to exercise. Exercise, however, should be something that we find time for no matter what. Inadequate exercise results in poor physical health that spills over into our mental and emotional lives as well.

Let Yoga-Syz help you restore balance in your life with the healing power of yoga. Take advantage of the balancing power of yoga–even when you’re far from home–with our instructional videos and yoga accessories. Those of you who travel a lot will truly benefit from our exciting new product, Yoga-Paws. Yoga-Paws replace traditional yoga mats that are often too large and awkward to carry with us when we travel.

Yoga-Paws allow you to enjoy a yoga workout anywhere–in your hotel room, conference room, office, at the beach, everywhere. Simply slip the Yoga-Paws on your hands and feet and anywhere you place your hands and feet you’ll be rewarded by the stability and cushion of this amazingly portable alternative to large yoga mats. You can email info@yogasyz.com for more information or order yours today with an instructional video.
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And, of course, plenty of exercise is required. Without exercise, you’ll never burn the additional calories you need to in order to shed those unwanted pounds. They type of exercise you do is also important. Low impact exercise is ideal, especially for those just starting a workout regimen or those who are 35 or older. For anyone, regardless of age or fitness level, yoga is a perfect part of your workout regimen.

Yoga is ideal for weight loss because it targets the whole body. The various poses of yoga stretch and tone the muscles of your arms, torso, core, legs, ankles, neck, and back. Yoga is an all-over workout that promotes weight loss without the shock or jolt to the body that other, high impact exercises bring. The slow movements and elongated postures of yoga serve to create the long, lean muscles that are the trademark of a fit body.

For years, Yoga-Syz has been a leading yoga accessories and promotions company. The mother-daughter team of Yoga-Syz is dedicated to promoting mind-body-spirit health through the use of their revolutionary yoga products like Yoga-Paws. Yoga-Paws are an alternative to large, burdensome yoga mats that are perfect for travel. Small and light, they can be stored anywhere and fit in any suitcase or purse, allowing users to enjoy yoga workouts away from home. They are also perfect for outdoor workouts if you’re looking for a change of pace in your routine.
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The answer is Yoga-Paws. Yoga-Paws are similar to traditional yoga mats. They are designed to provide the cushion and grip you need while maintaining a safe workout environment. Best of all, they are much, much smaller than a yoga mat! Yoga-Paws are like small yoga mats worn individually on each hand and foot. You have all the traction and safety you need without all the extra material.

This makes them ideal for travel. Yoga-Paws that are normally stored in a drawer at home can be packed up in your suitcase and are so small that you won’t have to leave anything else behind to get them in. They weight next to nothing, so you’ll never even notice they’re there. If you travel frequently and are looking for a way to stay healthy and fit on the road, Yoga-Paws are just what you’ve been searching for.

Even if you’ve never done yoga before, Yoga-Paws can help you get started. You can order a set of Yoga-Paws from Yoga-Syz.com that comes with an instructional video produced by Gail Getzwiller, an exceptional yoga instructor with more than three decades of experience. Before you set out on the road again, order your own Yoga-Paws in order to stay fit and happy away from home.