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 would have included hunting, gathering, building shelter, warfare, and farming. It is likely the association between increased frequency of practicing and performing these tasks equivocated to better performance and subsequent success for survival. Regimented functional training was inevitably born from this connection, and likely evolved independently across civilizations.
Workouts should be functional and relate to the development of skills and performance. Do not get distracted by the gym standard of care via rote body building workouts (unless your goal is solely hypertrophy) as these often cause muscular imbalance, injury, and limited carry over to everyday life. Training can have a greater purpose above and beyond just looking good (although aesthetics often follow). And with sufficient cause, the probability of adherence to fitness programing is significantly elevated.
~Cave Implementation~
Practicing functional fitness patterns resembling real world movement should be periodized weekly. Utilizing body weight or <10% of total body weight in tool (dumbbell kettlebell, or medicine ball), execute movements that are dynamic, ballistic and power oriented (high rate of force producing). Also consider movements aligned with your domain of sport & hobby, or primitive based: jogging long distances, hiking, rucking, climbing, throwing, or hanging. Body weight calisthenics are highly effective additives to warm ups, while scheduling multi-hour events to test your endurance through runs, hikes, or ruck events, are productive to building a full spectrum sapien.
Re-Wild Yourself With Activities That Are Functionally Relevant To Sapien Survival
