What To Wear For Yoga This Year - for Men

We’ve brought together some of the best Dubai online shops for you to purchase your Yoga wear from this summer, and presented them together with practical tips to help you decide what to wear for your Yoga class.

The most important thing to consider when choosing what to wear for Yoga is that your body must be able to move freely. You need to be comfortable and having the right clothing to wear will ensure that you can flow through the various poses and positions of your Yoga practice with ease and grace.
Men are choosing to wear breathable vests or T shirts for Yoga. Go for T shirts that are slightly fitted. Ideally they will be loose fitting but not baggy, allowing you to move without too much excess fabric getting in the way as you flow through poses.
Buy tops for men from:
1.  Souq has a wide range of fitness tops, vests and T shirts for men.
http://uae.souq.com/ae-en/athletic-wear/men/fitness—and—yoga|sportswear-tops|martial-arts/a-6356-12/l/
2. yApparel also carry mens tops
http://www.yapparel.com/collections/m-tops

What To Wear For Yoga This Year - for Women

We’ve brought together some of the best Dubai online shops for you to purchase your Yoga wear from this summer, and presented them together with practical tips to help you decide what to wear for your Yoga class.
 
The most important thing to consider when choosing  wear for Yoga is that your body must be able to move freely. You need to be comfortable and having the right clothing to wear will ensure that you can flow through the various poses and positions of your Yoga practice with ease and grace.
Your clothing must stay in place and you don’t want tops which are too baggy as they will get in the way when you practice your inversions. Having breathable Yoga wear is also im-portant, and cotton is a favourite.
This summer is all about loud, bright florals and animals prints, and you will find plenty of Yoga clothes that are bang on trend here.
Fitted cotton mix cami tops are ideal, and can be layered with long sleeved tops over them. Layers are great, both for the appearance and also for practical reasons as you are likely to warm up as you move through your practice
Buy Yoga tops for women from:
1. Souq has a large selection of women’s Yoga and fitness tops.
http://uae.souq.com/ae-en/athletic-wear/women/fitness—and—yoga/a-6356-12/l/?page=2
2. yApparel has some gorgeous speciality Yoga wear for women
http://www.yapparel.com

30 Day Challenge: 50 Chin-ups in a row

SHUT UP AND CHIN!
Chin Ups are the ultimate separators. Plenty of people will boast to you about their bench press strength but ask them how many chin ups they can pump out and suddenly they go eerily silent. Why? Because they are damn hard to do. Yet, they are also a tremendous upper body movement. Chin Ups are, of course, a fantastic upper back exercise. They are the best exercise you can do to develop the latissimus dorsi muscles – the ones that give a “V” shape to your upper body. Yet the movement actually works your whole body. It will place direct stress upon you abs, lower back, biceps and forearms. This movement is deceptively simple – all it involves is hanging from a bar and pulling your body up so that your chin goes over the bar.
If you’re already a chin-up pro – Skip right to the Challenge Workout Program

Optimized Chin Ups Form
The name Chin Up is actually a misnomer – it gives people the idea that they have to get their chin up and over the bar on each rep. This leads them to do all sorts of crazy things to make that happen. They will kick, squirm, kip and crane their neck. You don’t have to do this. Just go as high as you can. You don’t have to get your chin over the bar each time.
You should do your chin ups slowly. The right speed is about 2 seconds up and 2 seconds down. This allows you to work the lats without injury. When you do them too fast, you are likely to start swinging and using momentum to get up. You should also keep your shoulders flexed throughout the chin up movement.
You can perform perfect chin-ups in 3 easy steps . Check this video tutorial also

1. Extend your arms to the bar while retracting and pulling your shoulder down.
2. Drive your elbows to the ground as you pull up to the bar. In the top position your elbows should be parallel to the line of your upper body.
3. Return to a full hang with arms fully extended.

Here is one more Video Tutorial On how to do Chin-ups
5 Tips to Success

1. Commit publicly: Tell your friends and family that you are on a program that will have you performing 30 chin ups in 4 weeks. Publicly commit. Put it out there!
2. Observe your rest days: When you do chin ups you create micro tears in the muscle fiber. They need time to heal and regrow. The program relies on a rest day after each workout – make sure you observe it!
3. Use good form on every rep: Have integrity. Kipping motions and half reps are not chin ups – why cheat yourself?
4. Do the challenge first thing in the morning if possible: This will prevent your being spasmodic because of having hard day at work.
5. Don’t be discouraged: Chin Ups are hard work. Work consistently and don’t give up. If you do miss a day, don’t beat yourself up, just jump back in there. Even if it takes you an extra week to knock off the challenge, so what? You still will have accomplished something special.

Visit 30 day 50 chin ups workout challenge program for more information.

How to do 100 push-ups in one go!

A 30-DAY PROGRAM TO DO A SET OF 100 PUSH-UPS

The push up is the ultimate barometer of strength. Not only is it the perfect upper body exerciser, it also hits the abs and even the quads. When it comes to pumping out the reps, the holy-grail for push ups is 100. Drop down and pump out a century with good form and you’ve just garnered for yourself a whole lot of respect.
For most people, the prospect of doing 100 push-ups is as distant as running a four-minute mile. The average guy on the street would struggle to do 20 reps of anything that reasonably approaches a push up. Yet, 100 push-ups is a goal that is achievable by anybody, and it’s achievable quicker than you think.
In this challenge, you are being asked to commit to making your 100-rep push up goal a reality in 30 days. That’s right - in just one month, you will take it from zero to hero, maxing up your strength and your muscle mass.

How To Do The Perfect Push Up

The first step towards your 100-rep push up goal is to believe that you can do it – because you can!The first step towards your 100-rep push up goal is to believe that you can do it – because you can!

The next step is to learn how to perform a push up properly. We’re only interested in full, complete reps – not those 1/8th movement joke reps that so many people seem happy to delude themselves with.
Check out this perfect form video to make sure that you’ve got it right

1. Set yourself on the ground, face down with your hands slightly wider than shoulder width apart. Your feet should be touching.
2. Keeping your body in a straight line, rise up so that your arms are fully extended. Tense your buttocks and tighten your abs to prevent your butt from lifting you into a ‘v’ position.
3. Look straight ahead rather than down. Now steadily lower yourself until your elbows are at a 90-degree angle. When your chest touches the floor, explode back up to the start position

Get down on the floor and practice that form until you have got it down pat. Remember, no sticking your butt in the air, no looking down and no partial reps – keep it strict all the way.

Tips to Success

1. Consistency – this challenge is built upon incremental progressions. If you miss a day, your progress will stutter. Fortunately, push ups are a movement that can be done anywhere, any time – and they only take a few minutes.
2. Interest – boredom may be your biggest enemy. To fight it, keep your goal constantly before you. You should also vary the types of push up that you do. Try inclines, decline, knuckle and fingertip variations. You should also break up the target number in your mind – knocking 10 sets of six (with no break between mini sets, of course) is less of a mental hurdle than doing 60.
3. Speed – 100 push-ups is both a strength and an endurance challenge. Play it smart by doing your first 60 reps as fast as you can (without sacrificing form). If you can hit 60 before your arms and pecs fatigue, pure grit should allow you to bang out the final 40.
4. Mental toughness – As indicated above, the last 40 % of this challenge is mental. You need to shut down that nagging voice in your head that tells you that you’ll never get beyond 75 and just do it. With the end in sight, realize that you will not die and grind out until you reach absolute positive failure – you’ll soon find that the 100 rep benchmark will arrive first.

click for full 100 push up challenge program