The Natural Method: Paleo Movement Training 

Yes, those and locomotive movements such as running, swimming and crawling.

Also you should throw objects and be able to fight with natural weapons like arms and legs

Also exercises for hand-eye cordination.Because you hunt some animal and you must have really good throwing ability.

Interesting way to put it much to think on

First thing is to eat *only* Natural things in their Natural State.

I love to see there are more people like this! Great way of thinking!

@@Ivaarti right!

We are the same

God bless you. Thank you.....

Amen good sir/Ma'am

get the book for more inspiration. It inspired me.

Leonard Cook glad you liked the book!

He makes his own illustrations! He's amazing

He's the artist! Combines body work healing and art. I love it

Your the first comment! I'm pumped your digging this stuff.

ShapeShifters Den omg, ive just watched video and gosh...its moving, motivational, outstanding... I love your rings video but this is masterpiece. It has beautiful message and i hope other people who see this vid will recognize it aswell.

He did one!

I'm glad you've enjoyed the videos! I stepped away from the channel and from online training in order to develop a movement program for kids in my local city. It's been a great experience but it took up a lot of time and effort. However, I'm actually in the process of stepping away from the program and training a replacement. So here in the next few months I will be returning to the channel and the videos will resume. I've also been creating a fully illustrated book in the same style as the channel which should be done right around the same time. Check back in here in a few months and if all has gone to plan it will be up and running again :)

It is true that if your body has adapted enough to the dysfunction, you won't be able to safely perform what are typically known as natural movements. What you can do is to find your current "natural", safe range of movement within the structure you have. Build this range of motion and some strength within these patterns (nothing heavy though, don't want to stack weight on dysfunction. Bodyweight and light resistance with focused form work best), then move to the end range of the motions and strengthen those. Move in the direction of good posture and hold the "natural movements" as ideals to work towards, as a north star on your journey back to movement freedom. Use supports for movements that need it (like holding a door frame during squats) and be sure to find and release trigger points before exercise. This is the simple answer, I know the actual journey can present unforeseen difficulties. I 'm there with you, I've lost and gained much of my natural ability to move. The only two hobbies for me as a child were art and athletics, and most of the art was sketching done hunched over on a couch in the worst possible posture. Before I understood what was happening I become strong and fast on a piss poor frame and shredded my joints. Pins, screws, scar tissue, and a lot searching for answers is what the experience gave me. Now for the most part I move pretty well and I can enjoy athletic movement again, and so will you my friend. Good Luck on your journey

Knowing that someone suffered similar issues as me and has been able to overcome them gives me a spark of hope, thanks for the advice, it's much appreciated.

I have a follow up question. While I understand the mentality behind both natural movement patterns and building strength around a dysfunctional range of motion, my question is how do you recommend achieving progressive overload on those muscles? Body weight exercises are all well and good and there is no denying that they serve many purposes and goals, but they often aren't enough for higher threshold motor unit recruitment. While it could be argued that recruiting larger motor units may not be an objective of working through a dysfunction I would argue that it is vital for proper strength and, more specifically, the hypertrophic contribution to strength. Just wondering how you would program progression once someone became comfortable with their body weight movements once again, thanks!

@@scottwilliams6288 This has the potential to be a long answer, so I will try to keep it short but feel free to ask for any further clarification if needed. Body-weight exercises can be progressed quite well if your healthy and knowledgeable, especially for the upper body (though the lower in general seems to require added weight at some point). However its true that its not as easy (body-weight requires a lot of skill building along with the strength training in order to progress very far), and its dangerous to progress far if dysfunction is present to any large extent. As an example I've seen a handful of people train the front lever without fixing forward head posture, and all ended up with neck and shoulder injuries. So in this sense weights are much easier to progress in general. However I've had some trouble using weights to rehabilitate dysfunction because the problem usually doesn't end up being a problem of dynamic strength, and in fact adding dynamic strength on top of dysfunction can cause problems rather quickly. The origin of the issue is usually one of stabilization and muscle control. An example is a client with painful shoulders who could bench press 330 pounds like it was nothing and could row more than that. But when I had him hold a bent arm plank (also called a low push-up hold) he was trembling after 25 seconds. This same client also had anterior tilt in the scapula and he was unable to consciously re-position them in a stronger, more balanced position (he literally couldn't even feel or control these muscles). So this client has loads of dynamic strength in both his horizontal pulls and pushes but he had weak stabilizers which he had no conscious control over. So first he needs to regain control and he can't due that under load in the beginning because of the neurological "noise" it creates in the system. He needs to be able to listen and connect with his body in order to learn how to engage these stabilizers. After this is accomplished to an acceptable degree, his stabilizers need to be worked and strengthened so they can catch up to his dynamic strength. The problem is stabilizer muscles are slow twitch fibers which are best activated by static or very slow movement. So the idea is to teach the athlete to consciously engage his stabilizers before dynamic exercise and to increase the static strength-endurance of those muscles because that's were all the action is for stabilizers. Calisthenics is great for this because the athlete has no choice but to work with their own body and develop a much stronger mind-body relationship. Especially beneficial is maintaining proper alignments between the limbs and core, this same athlete couldn't do one proper hollow body push-up in the beginning. Meaning his core was strong and his shoulders were strong but they experienced almost no connection, which is a recipe for injury and low athletic performance. Body-weight work isn't the only way to do it though, and I do move on to weights after a certain level of rehabilitation, although it usually begins as light kettlebells, indian clubs, and weighted vests for some time. At this level they are learning to keep the stabilizers engaged during weighted dynamic movement. Once they have this body control SKILL, then we can move forward into more extreme dynamic strength. This ended up longer than I hoped, but it's time well spent if it helps. Good luck with your training my friend

After sitting back and looking at this conversation it seems like it might be easier to just spend the next decade or two figuring out how to build a time machine and then go back in time and slap my adolescent self into avoiding stuff that causes dysfunction. Damn the human body is a magnificent but confusing machine.

dude, you stopped uploading, are you doing alright?

. Just want to remind U Cuz the Dude ist back

formerevolutionist ehhh :/// I am a female, I have never worked out, but I find lifting things fun

Don't try to impress anyone. Get to the shape that impresses and pleases you, and the rest will follow. It is very kind of you to carry boxes, but it impresses me more that you want to help me, and don't leave me alone to get those boxes to the storage, than that you are strong enough to carry the box. I am strong enough to carry the box, so why would I be impressed by that? Life isn't a strongman competition.

I've never heard that but it's fascinating. Thank you for sharing! George Hebert is one of my all time favorite historical figures.

Owafeq shukran

Definitely sounds less ableist with the the more accurate translation

Abu Zohaifa, it's great to have training partners but the only person you can for sure rely on is yourself, don't blame them, just accept they have their own lives and their own reasons. In terms of overtraining, I have always had the same issue. Most of my injuries have been because I was excited about my training and wouldn't stop long enough to rest properly. The answer lies in intelligent programming. On days when my body is too tired or sore to train heavy I will do much lighter activities. Such as qi gong, yoga, Shadow boxing and jump rope, skill related work, or even just a good mobility routine. Remember the body knows what is talking about and it's language is health, vitality, and pain. Listen to your body and train within its current limits each day. It may mean you have to learn new ways of training, but it's taken my skill and physically to a whole new level. Hope this helps and good luck my friend.

Thanks. I tried asking this to many but only your suggestion satisfied me.

A lot of wisdom in that for sure.

Agreed. Not to mention people of color. Hébert was influenced by observing peoples of Martinique and Africa literally just doing their thing, yet everyone in the video is white.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The founders of parkour were a majority non-white immigrants and children of immigrants too, yet what do people put out in the media...?