| 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 Caused | | | | activities were all a daily part of life way back when |
| by sitting on our Backsides and Letting Machines | | | | the human body was being "programmed".Compare |
| Teach us Not to Stand up Straight'.That doesn't | | | | that to the present day activity level of an average |
| exactly roll off the tongue though, does it?The point is | | | | person in a civilized culture, and what do you get? A |
| the same, however. Before we were even able to | | | | MAJOR difference between the way we were built |
| stand fully erect we could literally fight for our right to | | | | and the way we are actually called upon to perform! If |
| live on a daily basis. Now, we are again barely standing | | | | you took your average office worker in 2005 and |
| up straight due to bad posture and bad habits, but we | | | | threw them back in time to a point when fur was "in", |
| can hardly walk across town without pulling a muscle | | | | they probably wouldn't last for very long.Is it wrong that |
| or throwing our back out!Why? We are weak - from | | | | modern technology has made our lives so easy? |
| the inside out! In today's image conscious society, we | | | | Probably not - depending on who you ask. However, is |
| are so concerned with the way we look that we | | | | it 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 the | | | | because you CAN sit down all day, and just because |
| core"!What IS "the core"? Why does everyone keep | | | | you CAN eat 1,000 calories in less than 20 minutes, |
| talking about training 'the core"? What does any of this | | | | and just because you CAN pay someone else to |
| have to do with cavemen?Basically, the idea here is | | | | mow your lawn doesn't mean that you SHOULD do |
| that there was a time in human evolution when we | | | | those things.Allowing our easy lives to make us weak |
| literally had to fight to survive. Although actual battle | | | | is OUR fault. It's not your boss at work who tells you |
| was certainly part of life back in the Stone Age, we | | | | that you can't exercise when you aren't pulling desk |
| are also talking about the day to day struggle that was | | | | time. 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, | | | | |