Great first post!

This is very similar to the workouts I've been trying to do.  I'm going to save a copy of that blog post for future reference.

The blog seems to have been removed; can anybody summarize what these six exercises were?

I was hoping more for MN: "The final goal of physical education is to make strong beings. In the purely physical sense, the Natural Method promotes the qualities of organic resistance, muscularity and speed, towards being able to walk, run, jump, move quadrupedally, to climb, to keep balance, to throw, lift, defend yourself and to swim."

have you ever seen an ape lift objects using the back of its neck ?  didn't think so.

I've also never seen an ape cook and eat cow meat, wear shoes, watch TV, or type. But that doesn't all of the sudden invalidate all these things. If your squatting is "lifting using the back of the neck", then you're doing it wrong. It's lifting using the whole body. The necessity of resting the bar where it rests is solely a function of how we created barbells.

This is what a kettlebell squat looks like:

There are few exercises that I would call unnatural or "unpaleo", most of which involve machines.

Who says we never squatted weight?  Jumping is basically squatting but more explosive, and surely through our evolution some cavedudes must have thrown a log on their back and carried it around or been all "hey look man, I can kneel down and stand up with this on my back, bet you can't!!"

Same with bicep curls, it's not like we never picked up rocks or other heavy objects and lifted them in a bicep curl like motion.

I would think that the big difference between the exercises a lot of people do in a gym now compared to what we probably did 100,000 years ago is that our exercises now tend to be much more linear and controlled.

Weight goes up, weight goes down, usually with the help of supporting bars or other mechanisms that limit side to side movement etc.  The weights are usually extremely
balanced too.

It pobably wasn't like that back in the Paleolithic days.

That's one of the major strongman tests at competitions, Atlas Stones!

Quote from: Woopy on June 22, 2010, 02:24:37 PM

probably the most paleo exercises is lifting boulders and walking around with them

The most paleo exercise would be walking/running. Or shagging.

i meant strength paleo exercise