Basic exercises

Nature is wonderful. Plants, animals, humans, insects and ecosystems, left on their own, over time adapt to their surroundings to not just exist, but to prosper. Each species is designed to do whatever it does best. For example, carnivores like wolves, lions and tigers are built to hunt and kill. They are strong and speedy with sharp teeth and powerful jaws. And all this happens naturally. When they are born, their parents don't sit them down and report to them what they have to do to become expert hunters-they just go about living their lives and they create that way naturally.

Animals in nature don't go to the gym. They don't lift weights, they don't do cardio, they don't read about the latest hot training routine and they don't go on diets. Yet despite the fact that they don't do any of these things, wolf cubs, lion cubs and others grow up to be expert hunters with lean but brilliantly strong bodies. Why? Because they live their lives the way nature intended, doing the activities that nature intended them to be doing without giving it any thought. It is like this throughout nature, with all species. What does this have to do with building a better body and why ought to you care? A lot-and I are going to tell you why.

Over the last thousand years or so man has gotten soft. By nature, we are hunter-gatherers, meaning that our bodies are built both to hunt and to forage for food-we kind of get the best of both worlds. But as our society has become more civilized we have moved away from doing the things that nature intended our bodies to be doing. And as a result, for the most part we have become flabby, soft and out-of-shape. We don't have to hunt down animals and kill them with our bare hands or with simple tools and we don't have to traverse long distances, looking for fruits, vegetables and nuts. When we did have to do those things every day in order to survive, we developed naturally lean and strong bodies-without even thinking about it.

We have moved away from living the way nature intended us to live. We train at the gym doing exercises that are unnatural and wonder why we don't get results. Our ancestors didn't do this but yet they prospered. Look at the warrior cultures like the Spartans, the Vikings, the Roman Gladiators and others. They didn't have gyms but they developed lean, powerful, muscular bodies. They got that way because they did what they had to do to survive. They trained every day not doing isolated, contrived movements, but using compound movements that incorporated a variety of training styles and developed real-world skills.

Today though, we go to the gym, use machines, moon over the latest fad diet or hot new supplement. And what's the result? More people than ever before are fat or fat. Our intellect and knowledge have grown exponentially but yet overall, we are in progressively worse shape than at any time in our history. What's the issue? I'll tell you what the issue is-it are us. When man intervenes things start to get all mucked up.

Our ancestors didn't order carry-out food. In the event that they were hungry they had to go out and forage or hunt. And while doing this, often times they got chased by wolves, bears or other humans. Food had to be carried across distances. In the event that they killed a bear, they probably had to drag it a long ways back to camp. And the warrior cultures did the same thing-trekking across the land wearing their heavy battle gear and lugging cumbersome weapons, supplies and even wounded soldiers. These are the kinds of activities that are bodies were built to do. When we did those things on an every day basis, we just naturally got the best results without even thinking about it. Our ancestors-the hunter/gatherers and the warrior cultures developed in to what they were and prospered because in the event that they didn't, they would have perished.

And if we today need to see the same kind of results and be lean, muscular, strong and healthy, we have to cease looking for the magic bullet and look to our past. We have to get primal and train the way nature intended our bodies to train. To get healthy and get the bodies we wish we have to exercise the way our ancestors lived by getting primal in our workouts. So how is a contemporary guy supposed to "get primal" in his workout? One of the best ways to train like our ancestors is by following training strategies like Lean Hybrid Muscle Training and others.

As you may already know hybrid muscle training is a training philosophy. It incorporates the best of bodybuilding, power lifting, strongman and cardio and combining them in to a cohesive training philosophy that fundamentally mimics the sorts of intense physical activities our ancestors would have done on an every day basis. The approach runs contrary to most of what you may have read in magazines but most "revolutionary" ideas have done the same. It is a way to burn fat and builds muscle at the same time, without the hit or miss-mostly miss-hassles of bulking and cutting. Lean Hybrid Muscle Training will supercharge workouts and maximize your results.