Pieces of our Past
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Alliance Development
Primal Primer 12 (Mentality) Forming alliances and forging strong social bonds plays a significant role in survival and advancement of human societies; creating the most advanced collective apex organism ever to grace this earth. Through numbers, horsepower of body...
Time Under Tension
Primal Primer 12 (Fitness) Time under tension principle refers to the duration muscles are under contractive or isometric challenge during exercise. While T.U.T. is a modern phrase, it's underlying principle was inherently utilized by early hunter and gatherer...
Carbohydrate Intake
Primal Primer 11 (Nutrition) As our progenitor species transitioned from aboral and quadruped, diets also shifted from primarily bugs, fruits, and vegetation, to heavier concentrations of carbohydrates. ~10,000 years ago the Sapien's radii of hunting and gathering...
Path Finding
Primal Primer 11 (Mentality) Our human ancestors found purpose through a combination of survival instincts, social connections, and a deep relationship with environment. Their sense of purpose was deeply rooted to activities essential for survival and well being of...
Calisthenics
Primal Primer 11 (Fitness) Our ancestors used calisthenic like movements for survival and conditioning, even if not consciously performing exercises as we understand them today. Proximal links between those spending more time in pursuit of arduous physical hunting and...
Protein Intake
Primal Primer 10 (Nutrition) As our progenitor species transitioned from aboral and quadruped, diets shifted from bugs, fruits, and vegetation to primarily animal sources. Introducing a protein / animal based dietary landscape continues to provide many benefits...
Inner Dialogue
Primal Primer 10 (Mentality) Thousands of years ago, the world was incredibly dangerous, and our ancestors found safety in banding together. However, during solitary moments of reprieve, sapiens engaged in inner dialogue. Fully leveraging cognitive and survival...
Joint Health
Primal Primer 10 (Fitness) Homo sapien's joint system exhibits significant structure and function through adaptive pressures of new environments and opportunities. These morphological differences separating our physiology from earlier hominid species demarcates a...
Fat As Fuel
Primal Primer 9 (Nutrition) Past primordial hunters valued and revered animal fats. Large herbivores such as mammoths, bisons, or deer's fat resources ranged anywhere from 10-30% of total body mass (concentrated in brain, marrow, and internal organs). Not...
Assess Yourself
Primal Primer 9 (Mentality) Sapiens come equipped with self preserving programing acutely blinding as safety mechanism for posterity. Objective truths from the abyss of chaos is detrimental to long term survival when viewed in excessive granularity; often necessary to...
Functional Movement
Primal Primer 9 (Fitness) Functional training for early Homo sapiens centered around activities enhancing the body's ability to perform tasks essential for survival. These actions included hunting, gathering, building shelter, tool creation, warfare, and farming. The...
Manage Macro Nutrients
Primal Primer 8 (Nutrition) Ancient humans did not measure macro nutrients, nor did they willingly "diet". Their landscape of fueling was quite different as availability and reliability of food was highly dependent upon season, hunting success, and ability to generate...
Garbage In & Garbage Out
Primal Primer 8 (Mentality) Ancient ancestral detoxification practices spanned epochs and geographies; deeply embedded in cultural and spiritual lives evident in most all civilizations. Practices of detox extended past targeting just physical health, adjunctly focused...
Core Conditioning
Primal Primer 8 (Fitness) Core strength is essential to overall fitness and rooted deeply in human evolutionary history, as robust trunk musculature has been instrumental in navigating three-dimensional challenges. Conditioned core musculature defined as strength and...
Alcohol Consumption
Primal Primer 7 (Nutrition) Fermenting fruits and grains to produce alcohol has been in practice for more than 7,000 years. During the Neolithic period, flourishing agriculture presumably led to intentional practices of fermentation for preserving foods and creating...
Fear Orientation
Primal Primer 7 (Mentality) Through thousands of years of evolution, the human fear response has been forged with the sole purpose of maximizing survival. An intricately systemic reflex involving coordination of brain, nervous system, and body; orchestrating...
Mobility & Flexibility
Primal Primer 7 (Fitness) Yogic practices originate in Indus Valley civilizations dating back 5,000-3,500 years ago, whereby seals depicting figures in meditative postures suggest proto-yoga techniques. 2,500 years ago, the Bhagavad Gita presents yoga as a...
Caffeine Consumption
Primal Primer 6 (Nutrition) Earliest records of caffeine consumption dates back over 5,000 years in China, where fortuitous leaves from a wild tree blew into an emperor's boiling water, producing a revitalizing effect. In Ethiopia, a goat herder observed his flock...
Reading
Primal Primer 6 (Mentality) Access to knowledge through reading, accompanied by skills to interpret, discern, and apply has long been regarded as one of humanity’s most valuable commodity; historically reserved only for the royal or elite. Reading shaped the course of...
Sleep
Primal Primer 6 (Fitness) Sleep may be one of the lesser optimized experiences of our ancestors as the world was once a more dangerous place. The inherent threat in creaking branch, animal howl, or hominid shadow cast, created nightmares of real life consequence....