From another thread, but it seems to sit better here...
Mark Sisson's Primal Movements might be a good start - including Progression Videos:
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/a-fitness-plan-so-easy-a-caveman-did-it/
Interesting website, that. Like the emphasis on doing a variety of exercises and moving in different ways. Stands to reason that loading a given joint in different ways will keep its full range and prevent injury, compared to a single movement repeated many times. Also prevents boredom! Likewise, the emphasis on play being the ultimate purpose of exercise is
really good.
OT: What's even more interesting is (IMO anyway
)how the "headline message" is exactly the opposite to what the plan itself suggests:
"You can eat more fat and don't have to count calories! Here, have a look at this meal with no carbs!" Then proceed to make a salad with a few pine nuts and a piece of chicken (no skin). Dash of vinaigrette. 500kCal total. Four, even five meals like that per day
is calorie restriction.
"Fat keeps you full for longer!" Then serve a relatively small portion of fat-containing nuts and avo with a shovelful of leafy greens (i.e. very low-density carbohydrate). Eeerm, maybe it's the bulk of the vegetables keeping you full, not the fat per se?
"You don't have to do lots of exercise! Brief bursts is all it takes!" Then describe 5 hours of HR 120bpm stuff/week
plus some strength training
plus one balls-to-the-wall-eyes-popping sprint session every now and again. Oh, and the play and the stretches, of course. That
is a lot of exercise for most people.
Now, I'm not saying that keeping an eye on the calories and getting enough exercise isn't a good idea. It is. And the diet and exercise plan described is very good. But it simply isn't the antithesis to Conventional Wisdom (sic) as he says. It's still calories in < calories out. If you followed the headline messages only, and did only brief bursts of exercise whilst eating only salad with lots of cheese and dressing, you'd still gain weight. OTOH, if you followed Conventional Wisdom (dontcha
love the way he capitalises the words?
) and ate some pasta with your salad, rather than avocado f'rinstance, you'd lose weight. Calories in < calories out is what counts; the rest is all about how to achieve that without going mad with hunger or boredom.
(Even further OT: The pejorative line in hospitals is "the larger the theatre nurse, the greater the likelihood that she will be seen eating salad at lunch time".)