No matter what kind of exercise you do doing some form of exercise, is better than doing none at all especially if you are trying to get rid of excess weight, lower cholesterol levels and improve cardiovascular function.

Just the other day something really caught my eye, I was looking at my stats in my web hosting and there was a link to a site so I followed it and and on this particular site there was a video of a man, doing his work out in the outdoors no treadmills, no exercise machines, no dumbbells, nothing associated with the modern way of exercising was seen at all during the whole presentation of the video.

Watching this really did make me think about how we do exercise in the modern world, and actually how beneficial it really is. This man whose name is Erwan Le Corre who was featured in the video is incredibly fit, probably fitter than some athletes are, the main reason for it seems to be the way he does his exercise routine.

At the end of this post I have embedded a video the very same one which I watched so you can see yourself exactly what he does, I think one of the main reasons is that he is so fit is because he uses all of the muscles in his body when he is exercising, he climbs trees, runs over bridges, lifts his own body weight using the edge of overhanging rock, swims whilst manouvering a log, bends and lowers his back in forage or bushes.

To watch him is quite fascinating really because it’s like seeing somebody who may of behaved thousands of years ago, when they were hunting down moving prey all those years ago. On the website which is called MovNat which stands for move naturally they say on their that we as human beings live in a zoo mentality which they say is a revolving and global problem which is affecting people the world over they say it’s caused by quite a few factors which are social conventions, technological environments, and overall commercial pressure.

The way we live our lives now we are constantly disconnected from the natural world which isn’t how we should be as we have become zoo humans over the years it affects us in three ways mentally, physically and spiritually.What other signs are there of zoo syndrome well glad you asked because may have frequent illnesses, be overweight and have a general lack of vitality.

MovNat which is Erwans institute for educating people want’s people to be free in what they do and empower people to be happy, free and strong like they where supposed to be many years ago. When you think about it we do tend to live in what I call a box mentality, we live in-house boxes, with rooms which are like boxes. And every so often we will come out of our boxes walk up our concrete road past concrete houses, maybe to visit one of our friends who is in another box, or we may go to a shop box, and buy some foods which are in boxes as well.

Is it any wonder then that we tend to feel the way we do we spend far too much time indoors supposedly entertaining ourselves when in fact in this reality we are not at all we just had to make ourselves worse by living in this zoo mentality is that we have created

Erwan says that our bodies are not what he calls “smart” when you have a smart body it moves from one physical task to another which such fluidity that it’s almost seamless, If you where being chased by a ravenous animal or trying to avoid a flood situation and wasn’t able to get your body five feet off the ground this could be the finite line between either being safe or not.

Our modern day methods of working out, are very impractical and domesticated, he adds what practical use are gym generated muscles apart from using them for show or as he puts it we use them as “show dogs” which have no real practical use in the real world.

What real purpose are there for gym generated muscles in this world of ours except putting money in the pockets of gym owners and the people who manufacture them. He goes on to say the he has met many a man who can bench press 400 pounds, but would have a hard time climbing up to a window and rescuing someone or.

People who can run marathons but always have to put there shoes on first before they do anything, or swimmers who can swim for long lengths of time but wouldn’t be able to dive that deep and carry someone to safety and carry them over rocks to safety.

Being fit isn’t about how big your body is or how far you can run “It’s about rediscovering our biological nature and releasing the wild human animal inside.”

Studies based around natural movements

In the year of 1902, someone called Georges Hebert whom at the time was a French naval officer, and was stationed at a Caribbean island at one point, on the eighth of May on that particular year and then he noticed as well as his crew members, that a dark cloud was looming over the island but it wasn’t raining or anything else.

This A volcano had erupted and there was melting ash everywhere in the streets on people it was quite a horrific scene. In this terrifying inferno was Hebert and is men trying to scramble ashore, and amongst the panic of all the people he tried this to rescue as many people as he possibly could.

Hebert gained hero status from the people of the island, because of his actions on that day. But he reflected quite some time afterwards about the people that were lost during this horrific incident.

He eventually returned home to his home country and was quite surprised when he was looking around at people, he could see the same weaknesses in the people that were lost when he was on the island.

He thought about the fact that if the same thing happened there, how many people would be able to carry somebody on their shoulder over a set distance to safety.

Or many other scenarios which came to his mind, he believed the modern world was producing hollow men whom were more interested in vanity, rather than being people of practical ability he would be able to do so much more if there was some kind of natural disaster similar to what happened on the island where he was.

He became incredibly motivated to change this situation and being as he was in the Navy deemed it an ideal opportunity to try new things with his recruits, so he asked the people in charge of the Navy the time what he had in mind as far as figures was concerned and asked for their permission to try something.

So having so many recruits to use as guinea pigs he called his system quite simply Methode Naturelle which means natural method. His philosophy for this method of exercise was “be strong and useful”.

What he needed to do next was decide how he was going to accomplish this, so he designed a outdoor assault course using natural implements, he created climbing tower was made from wood from trees, vaulting horses is made from trees logs. Also they were ponds and and logs placed about which could be used for tossing etc or carrying around on your shoulder or for balancing as well.

He said he set up one rule in this natural assault course of his, this “no are are a competing against other men” his reasoning for this was when you compete against the other guy you are trying to show his weaknesses instead of your own which is a very valid point.

After a few years had passed the whole of the French Navy was using his system to train its new recruits, In 1913 he presented his results before the French Physical Education Congress, and they were astounded with what was said to them. His results which were based around 350 naval recruits which had never been subject to a system before.

Were monitored and the results recorded to see exactly how fit they were before and after, based on a rating system which which scored the following attributes, these were based upon the following elements speed, agility, and overall insurance the French sailors were in the fitness level is the same as world-class decathletes.

However this never really made it into the real world because just as he was about to put his training into real-world scenarios the First World War broke out, and many of the recruits who were trained in this method were put on the front line and were up against Germans with machine guns and grenades.

Most of the trainers and other people associated with the superior method of training were eventually wiped out during the war Hebart was naturally devastated, because he really knew that he had something at the time and in a way it was way ahead of its time.

Perhaps from many years ago we were hardwired to exercise this way, but instead now we use cyborg type machines to do exercise and build bodies which look like pumped up Michelin Men which has no practical purpose whatsoever and is merely a vain thing which we think we need to do.

if you look at a dog when it is exercising it likes to do a variety of things, like run fetch a stick or a ball, and this is more like play rather than exercise is it really surprising that if the animal did the same exercise it might get bored eventually and stop doing it, perhaps sometimes this is what is wrong with our modern day way of exercising we do it indoors.

And don’t really exercise every part of our body like we should be doing. At the end of this post is the video I was referencing from the beginning I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I did and I can say one thing for sure it really did inspire me and make me think about the way, I exercise and I hope it does the same for you and perhaps in some ways inspire you to try something different for a change and get away from the zoo mentality that we tend to have in our modern day way of life.

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Exercise is a key component for health vitality, and keeping your body toned and supple and the most crucial ingredient to this is keeping your weight under control. But there are often lots of things that you may or may not know of that come from the benefits of exercising regularly.

1. You will increase muscle mass which is a key component in burning fat, muscle is active tissue whereas fat is in active tissue, so the more muscle mass you have the better

2. Keeps your bones and and joints supple and stronger, people whom exercise regular tend to have stronger bones, and more supple joints and are less likely to suffer from stiffness etc

3. Helps in relieving stress, it tends to be a great way of burning of adrenaline and also eliminating toxins from your body which may accumulate over time, these tend to be sweated out when you do vigorous exercise

4. Makes you feel more positive and ready for the day, try getting some exercise first thing in the morning and notice how, more positive you will feel throughout the day and feel able to attack anything which is thrown your way

5. Focus and concentration you will be able to concentrate a lot better, and get more things done which will rocket your productivity through the roof.

6. More energy when you will more physically active, your cardiovascular system becomes more stronger, a healthy person has less heart beats per minute than a  healthy person. The reason for this is a slower heartbeat pumps more blood round, than one that is going quicker at rest, this is one of the reasons why unhealthy people run out of energy so quickly. And feel tired all the time

7. Live a longer life studies have shown that people, who exercise regularly have a longer lifespan’s and there cells don’t expire as quick as unhealthy people’s. If you put some cells in a test-tube and leave them, for some time they will eventually expire and die if you regularly shake the test-tube which they are in, they have a longer lifespan

8.Lower blood pressure, due to the fact that exercise helps strengthens your cardiovascular system, this will keep your blood pressure in check.

9. Helps to burn off blood sugar, if you have diabetes or don’t have diabetes it’s still important to get exercise, in order to encourage the uptake of sugar into your cells, if this doesn’t happen over a long period of time your cells become insulin resistant, because no physical activity is occurring and your cells are being constantly bombarded with sugar, if you take regular exercise the excess glucose will become burned off and lower your sugar

10. Keeps cholesterol in check, when you’re more physically active your liver becomes more efficient at dealing with, excess cholesterol in your system and due to the fact that, exercise when done correctly burns fat, even when you are at rest. This will help to keep your blood cholesterol levels in check.

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One of the most important things when you are trying to lose weight is exercise you can get so far without doing any, but it really is important to do some form of exercise, preferably if you are able to do it cardiovascular is the best. Or some form of resistance training which is even better as far as burning fat is concerned.

Whether it be walking running or whatever is best suited to yourself, it always has been noted that doing 30 minutes exercise per day was perfectly acceptable for most people over a period of five days.But but now some guidelines that have come to light from the USA suggests otherwise, so now it may be acceptable to do less exercise and may be less of a worry to some people who feel that they can’t fit in 30 minutes per day five days a week.

They suggest that now you can get away with exercising for 2 1/2 hours per week and still maintain good health, where as previously it was 30 minutes per day five times per week.This might be very welcoming news for people who are very busy. And who might be feeling guilty because they are not able to do 30 minutes of exercise as suggested before.

New Physical Activity for Americans which published a report based on the latest scientific research as regards exercise and keeping healthy, say the thing to remember here is generally the more exercise you do the better your health will be, Penelope Slade Royall who is the assistant secretary of the US Department for Health and Human services, says that.

You should do aerobic exercises for at least 10 minutes and and you should aim for five hours of moderate exercise per week or 2 1/2 an hour’s intense exercise, I think the main thing here is is to make sure you get some form of exercise.

People always seem to think that you have to do it all at once, and because of this fact they don’t particularly want to exercise for an hour at a time probably, either due to the fact that there heart isn’t in it or they may find it boring exercising for an hour at a time.

The thing is, and I have mentioned this before quite a few times in various posts, you can split your exercise routine up into three sessions. So you could exercise for 20 minutes in the morning 20 minutes in the afternoon and 20 minutes in the evening.

And you will still get benefits from doing this way, it has been found that doing one session of exercise say for instance 15 minutes having a rest for about two hours or less, and then doing another bout of exercise for 15 minutes, will burn more fat than doing one continuous bout of exercise.

Here are a few exercise guidelines which may or may not be suited to you pick, from the list below and go with which ever is better for you.

• moderate exercises things like walking, gardening house work, Tai Chi washing the car, taking the stairs instead of the lift

• vigorous exercises go into the categories of swimming, jogging, aerobics combined with some form of resistance training, hiking, cycling continuously for as long as you can heavy work which could mean moving heavy loads around the garden bricks etc.

• Also as well as moderate exercise get some light weights and do some resistance training, you can buy these relatively cheap either from a sports shop or some high street retailers sell them. Or even use tins of food which some people prefer to do. Make sure you do these vigorous activities a minimum, of two to three times per week in order to get maximum benefit.

• Children should do their own activities as well they should not be excluded from doing the sort of things, things like, skipping a tug-of-war with some friends with a piece of rope, rollerskating, running which can be quite easily achieved with playing a game of football, squash, rugby anything which is physically exerting.

• I would say on a endnote that more is better but that is my opinion, before doing any strenuous physical activity make sure you consult with your GP or health care practitioner to make sure you are in reasonable shape to do any form of exercise without causing harm to yourself.

Source http://health.yahoo.com

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