Thursday, April 23, 2009

low intensity stedystate excersize, are we built for it??

One of the points that Doug McGuff, the author of Body By Science makes is that low intensity, steady state exercises(walking, jogging, stair climbing, cycling, rowing, etc...) is not our optimal way to get fit and stay healthy due to accumulative damage to our joints and ligaments or chronic wear and tear. One of the premises of the Paleo-Lifestyle is to eat and move in tune with what are bodies are naturally evolved for. Our bodies are made for intense explosive motion, not steady state low intensity motion. Think about our hunter-gatherer ancestors, and how they hunted and lived. Case in point a recent post by Mark Sisson of Mark's Daily Apple Blog:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/did-humans-evolve-to-be-long-distance-runners/

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