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@_carlybrown and I join together to make the #AlignmentJunkies. We have turned the 9:30 am time slot on Mondays and Wednesdays at Sacred Thread Yoga O4W into your weekly meetings where we talk Alignment and Actions. Join us for the next 11 weeks where our classes will be dedicated to breaking down and teaching specific Alignment Principles and/or Key Actions that will help unpack and deepen your understanding of a multitude of poses. Each week will be dedicated to a different principle/action and we will travel week by week from feet through the body all the way to the skull. At the end of the 11 weeks you will have an understanding and an infrastructure on how to align yourself in any yoga pose to help find the fullest expansion and expression of that pose. Join me Mondays at 9:30 am and Carly on Wednesdays at 9:30 am at Sacred Thread O4W. #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboysteachyoga #blackboysdoyoga #yogayogaeverydamnday #STY #sacredthreadyoga #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonHoMi #joblove #thesweatlifeATL (at Sacred Thread Yoga)

[blackboysdo]

Word of the Day: BEGIN People always ask me, "How do you stay so disciple in your yoga practice and fitness routine? How do you CONTINUE to stay so CONSISTENT?" My answer: the key to CONTINUING is to BEGIN...AGAIN, and AGAIN and AGAIN. Each day I step on the mat or into a gym I feel like I am just BEGINing AGAIN. And thats because I approach it with a BEGINNERS MIND and a STUDENTS HEART. That way there is always something new to learn, it hopefully never gets boring, and you're excited to BEGIN AGAIN, the next day. So don't worry about CONTINUING, just keep BEGINING. Thanks for the #WOD @baconeda. That #yogahour 202 class at @toughloveyoga a great way to BEGIN AGAIN. OAN: Just because you don't see me (in the video), doesn't mean I'm not practicing. So #pleasePRACTICE #namaste🙏🏾 #bowflex #XCessiveGenius #blackboysdoyoga #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #badassandbendy #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #eatclean #traindirty #thesweatlifeATL #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonHoMi (at Tough Love Yoga, Atlanta)

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"If you have body, then you're an athlete!" Maybe you aren't training for that championship game, or for the next #crossfit competition, or to PR your Oly Lifts, or to complete the Boston Marathon. But keep in mind that if your are simply trying to be a better human BEING (not just doing) to create a better version of yourself through your training, that still makes you an ATHLETE. One that hold a special place in my heart I might add. #sacredathlete Being a better human being means that you can do simple functional movements WELL. Tasks like getting up off the floor should be simple. This drill looks simple, but it's far from easy. Intersection of #mobility, #flexibility, midline #stabilization, balance and #strength. #bowflex #blackboysareathletes #blackboystrain #crossfit #crossfitatlanta #pistols #oneleggedsquats #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonhomi #joblove #thesweatlifeATL (at CrossFit Atlanta)

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Thanksgiving #yoga at @toughloveyoga with some of my fellow lemons🍋. I am grateful for a community (kula) of like minded people that reminded me of how connected we are all are when I start to feel so alone. #bowflex #blackboysdoyoga #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #nodaysoff #practiceandalliscoming #eatclean #traindirty #buffandbendy #badassandbendy #swoleandflexy #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonhomi #joblove #thesweatlifeATL (at Tough Love Yoga, Atlanta)

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#handstandoftheday It's amazing to me what a quick #psoas stretch and smash can do for my body. This is going to sounds NERDY 🤓 but I think it's my favorite muscle in the body. @yogaplayground would be proud at how hard I'm an working in my hands. I can hear him in my head stay "Fingertips bruh, fingertips". Got to hollow out that core more though #bowflex #blackboyshandstand #blackboysgetupsidedown #gettheeffupsidedown #inversions #handstand #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #gymastics #gymNASTY #buffandbendy #eatclean #traindirty #crossfitatlants #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonhomi🍋 #joblove #thesweatlifeATL (at CrossFit Atlanta)

[blackboysdo]

It's been a long day ( 14 hour day, 5 #crossfit classes and 1 #yoga class taught).....hell, it's been a long week full of 12+ hour days. I'm exhausted from helping to get and keep others fit. But it doesn't mean much if you don't do your part to stay fit, "LEADING BY EXAMPLE".....like my mothers always says "YOU GOTTA DRINK WHILE YOU POUR!" So here I am, in the gym at 8:30 pm on a Friday night. 5 sets, 4 reps Front Box Squats (E2M) then 21-15-9 Front Squats and KB Swings for time. Sometimes the process happens in the dark of night, by yourself in a lonely ass gym. #bowflex #blackboystrain #blackboyslift #crossfit #crossfitatlanta #tfrcrossfit #processnotperfection #eatclean #traindirty #mindfulathlete #sacredathlete #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonhomi #joblove #thesweatlifeATL (at CrossFit Atlanta)

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Pose: #ardhamatsyendrasana aka #halfspinaltwistpose aka #lookbackatit Join me tomorrow at @totalfitnessrev at 10 am as I sub a gentle #yoga class. The theme for the class will be #twists🌀 TWISTS are a challenging category of poses for me in my body and #asana practice. A tornado🌪 has its center, a destructive hurricane has the eye of the storm🎯. The last 2 years of my life has been filled with tumultuous twists, unexpected turns and sometimes utter destruction and dissolution. But what the twisting poses of yoga has taught me on my mat, is how to draw more deeply to my CENTER, establish my MIDLINE and engage the full strength of my CORE. Off the mat it has taught me that through all the twists and turns in life that what keeps you grounded, calm and at peace is by drawing in the CENTER of who you are and expressing with strength your CORE values and convictions. Let us twist and turn together so we can find our center as individuals and as a collective community. #namaste 🙏🏾 #bowflex #blackboysdoyoga #blackboysteachyoga #yogaeverydamnday #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #suppleleopard #mobilitywod #mwod #romwod #stretching #flexibility #mobility #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonhomi🍋 #thesweatlifeATL #joblove #totalfitnessrevolution (at Total Fitness Revolution)

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A year ago I graduated from my 200 hour yoga teacher training program taught by my teacher Gina Minyard and wasn't sure if I wanted to teach yoga. There were already so many yoga studios, so many yoga instructors. I felt like I wanted to offer something different. Wasn't sure what!?!?! Four months ago I was still in the lab working on developing and refining my therapeutic #stretchansmash class, a class I describe as YOGA-ish, when Sports Authority decided to go out of business. I went to the closest store and bought a set of 13 lacrosse balls and softballs ⚾️as equipment for my class. I told myself "I only need 13? There is no way even 13 people are ever going to show up to my class? To be honest, I can't even really afford 13 balls!" Today, after much fear and trepidation, I debuted my class at @crossfitatlanta, I brought 13 sets of softballs and lacrosse balls. I was humbled, scared and surprised when 16 people showed up. I guess that means I need to GET MORE BALLS....LITERALLY and FIGURATIVELY. Thank you to the 16 souls that trusted me with their time, their bodies and their practice. The athlete in me bows deeply to the athlete in each and everyone of you. #namaste 🙏🏾 #bowflex #blackboysteachyoga #yoga #yoga-ish #yogaeverydamnday #suppleleopard #mwod #mobilitywod #romwod #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #crossfitatlanta #stretching #flexibility #mobility #eatclean #traindirty #therollmodel #lululemon #lululemonhomi🍋 @lululemonmen #thesweatlifeATL #joblove

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"Practice how you play!" For me, especially in Olympic Weightlifting, that means don't wait for the bar to get heavy to dial in technique. Your technique should be just as good with a empty bar as it is with a heavily loaded one! OAN: All those #handstand and #utkatasana (chair pose) that I have been doing in my #yoga practice has really helped my shoulder engagement in my overhead positions (i.e. Push Jerks) #bowflex #blackboyslift #blackboysdoyoga #crossfit #crossfitatlanta #olympic #weightlifting #cleanandjerk #eatclean #traindirty #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonhomi #joblove #thesweatlifeATL (at CrossFit Atlanta)

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Change your perspective and #gettheeffupsidedown. Every Minute on the Minute(EMOM) 3 Unbroken Strict #handstandpushups #bowflex #blackboysgoupsidedown #HSPU #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #inversions #buffandbendy #swoleandflexy #gymnastics #gymNASTY #crossfit #tfrcrossfit #totalfitnessrevolution #lululemon #lululemonmen @lululemonmen #lululemonhomi🍋 #joblove #thesweatlifeATL #eatclean #traindirty (at Total Fitness Revolution)