The Core: Unleash Your Inner Caveman

An alternative name for this article could have been,lifting, pressing - the list goes on and on. These
'How to undo Generations worth of Damage Causedactivities were all a daily part of life way back when
by sitting on our Backsides and Letting Machinesthe human body was being "programmed".Compare
Teach us Not to Stand up Straight'.That doesn'tthat to the present day activity level of an average
exactly roll off the tongue though, does it?The point isperson in a civilized culture, and what do you get? A
the same, however. Before we were even able toMAJOR difference between the way we were built
stand fully erect we could literally fight for our right toand the way we are actually called upon to perform! If
live on a daily basis. Now, we are again barely standingyou took your average office worker in 2005 and
up straight due to bad posture and bad habits, but wethrew them back in time to a point when fur was "in",
can hardly walk across town without pulling a musclethey probably wouldn't last for very long.Is it wrong that
or throwing our back out!Why? We are weak - frommodern technology has made our lives so easy?
the inside out! In today's image conscious society, weProbably not - depending on who you ask. However, is
are so concerned with the way we look that weit wrong that we don't keep our bodies as strong and
ignore the fact that we are falling apart from the inside.vital as we used to HAVE to keep them? YES!Just
For lack of a better term, we are "rotten to thebecause you CAN sit down all day, and just because
core"!What IS "the core"? Why does everyone keepyou CAN eat 1,000 calories in less than 20 minutes,
talking about training 'the core"? What does any of thisand just because you CAN pay someone else to
have to do with cavemen?Basically, the idea here ismow your lawn doesn't mean that you SHOULD do
that there was a time in human evolution when wethose things.Allowing our easy lives to make us weak
literally had to fight to survive. Although actual battleis OUR fault. It's not your boss at work who tells you
was certainly part of life back in the Stone Age, wethat you can't exercise when you aren't pulling desk
are also talking about the day to day struggle that wastime. It's not your mother or father who is making you
involved in just making it to see another sunset!Walking,eat at fast food restaurants every day.
running, climbing, throwing, pushing, pulling, balancing,