Are Humans Created for Walking, Running Or Exercising?

Exercise is Optional Movement is Essential.

But what is difference?

Exercise is a modern invention, an obligation or chore designed to give us a feeling of good feeling.

It is pain, rather than pleasure driven. It is generally focused on specificity and lacking in real skill development. 

Most exercise regimes use machines and isolated exercises that make us experts in movements that are not practical and are limited.

Humans are designed to run long distances, we aren't designed to be sprinters, and hence we'll lose short-distance races against squirrels and other four-legged animals

You'd never beat a chimpanzee in a 100-meter sprint, but they can't completely nor win  marathon against humans.

We have a brain for one reason and one reason only  and that’s to produce adaptable and complex movements.

The body contributes far more to our lives than just physical attributes such as strength and endurance - it plays a major role in emotions, learning and relationships. 

The body is intimately involved in all our thought processes, understanding, emotions and decision making. 

The mind and body are inseparable, from our endocrine system to the brain in our gut and the body is your brain.

Being sedentary has become normal for a modern human who has the luxury to ask why run? Why jump? Why climb? When everything is accessible, when you are not forced to move to catch your prey or avoid being prey. 

Most people have a disconnect between their mind and body.  We work in jobs that don't require our bodies, simply sitting at desks clicking mouse buttons and tapping on keyboards. 

The narrative and relationship between our bodies and our movement is forgotten, not heard, ignored. We only notice our bodies when something goes wrong with it. 

We have, in effect, betrayed our bodies, ignoring and dishonouring them by using them purely as locomotive to transport the head.

Movement is something entirely different, and ancient.  Movement was here first. Hunting and gathering, dancing round the fire, walking, climbing, running, jumping, crawling, lifting, swimming, and fighting.

More and more people are realising that we need more than exercise for aesthetic reasons alone, we even need more than so called functional training.

We need movement. If you exercise, then train movement, not muscles.

Find out what movement means to you. For most moving is being in the present, enjoying the moment. 

Enjoying what you are doing. You are not exercising, you are moving. Movement for movement's sake.

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