Look around you. What do you see? Do you see normality in our daily activities? Is it normal to jump into the car every morning to drive half an hour to work? Is it normal for the body to be sat at a computer desk for 12 hours a day? Is it normal to watch 4 hours of television every evening? Is this a lifestyle that you believe is truly congruent with our anatomy?
The world has become a very unfamiliar place to our bodies. Going back even just a 100 years or so we can see that there are huge changes in the type and the quality of our activity levels. If we were to go back even further to our paleolithic, stone age ancestors, we would see them walking about 5 miles every day and running in bursts to catch or hunt their prey. In addition to that they would have jumped, climbed, pushed, pulled and lifted with regularity. In short, their activity levels would have put us to absolute shame. The human body has adapted over hundreds of thousands of years to work in a very particular way. And in just a few hundred years we have managed to force it do do things very differently. That doesn't just include the way in which we move, but also the way we think and eat.
Primative movement patterns: if you want to exercise effectively and in a way that is congruent with the human body then why not check out this video explaining the 5 most essential movements that should be a big part of your daily exercise routine. Add to this some walking and running... and maybe even a little jumping for good measure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VexzP8X2MI4
