An alternative name for this article could have been, 'How to undo Generations worth of Damage Caused by sitting on our Backsides and Letting Machines Teach us Not to Stand up Straight'.That doesn't exactly roll off
tongue though, does it?
The point is same, however. Before we were even able to stand fully erect we could literally fight for our right to live on a daily basis. Now, we are again barely standing up straight due to bad posture and bad habits, but we can hardly walk across town without pulling a muscle or throwing our back out!
Why? We are weak - from inside out! In today's image conscious society, we are so concerned with way we look that we ignore fact that we are falling apart from inside. For lack of a better term, we are "rotten to core"!
What IS "the core"? Why does everyone keep talking about training 'the core"? What does any of this have to do with cavemen?
Basically, idea here is that there was a time in human evolution when we literally had to fight to survive. Although actual battle was certainly part of life back in Stone Age, we are also talking about day to day struggle that was involved in just making it to see another sunset!
Walking, running, climbing, throwing, pushing, pulling, balancing, lifting, pressing - list goes on and on. These activities were all a daily part of life way back when human body was being "programmed".
Compare that to present day activity level of an average person in a civilized culture, and what do you get? A MAJOR difference between way we were built and way we are actually called upon to perform! If you took your average office worker in 2005 and threw them back in time to a point when fur was "in", they probably wouldn't last for very long.
Is it wrong that modern technology has made our lives so easy? Probably not - depending on who you ask. However, is it wrong that we don't keep our bodies as strong and vital as we used to HAVE to keep them? YES!
Just because you CAN sit down all day, and just because you CAN eat 1,000 calories in less than 20 minutes, and just because you CAN pay someone else to mow your lawn doesn't mean that you SHOULD do those things.
Allowing our easy lives to make us weak is OUR fault. It's not your boss at work who tells you that you can't exercise when you aren't pulling desk time. It's not your mother or father who is making you eat at fast food restaurants every day. It's not your car that is making you drive it ¼ mile to store instead of just walking.
It's YOUR fault. It's all YOUR fault. Does that sound harsh? That's too bad, because it's truth and you know it. Even people who are paralyzed from waist down can get plenty of exercise if they train hard enough. Even people who don't know a barbell squat from a bench press can learn if they really try to. Even "corporate Americans" who work 12-hour days can get some exercise and eat right if they truly make an effort.
