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Primal Workouts

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An Excerpt from the Lean Hybrid Muscle Building Program

primal-workoutsNature is amazing. Plants, animals, humans, insects and ecosystems, left on their own, over time adapt to their environment to not just exist, but to thrive. 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’re strong and fast with sharp teeth and powerful jaws. And all this happens naturally. When they are born, their parents don’t sit them down and explain to them what they have to do to become skilled hunters—they just go about living their lives and they develop 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 skilled hunters with lean but incredibly 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’s like this throughout nature, with all species. What does this have to do with building a better body and why should you care? A lot—and I am going to tell you why.

Over the last thousand years or so man has gotten soft. By nature, we’re 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’ve moved away from doing the things that nature intended our bodies to be doing. And as a result, for the most part we’ve 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, searching 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.

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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 overweight or obese. Our intellect and knowledge have grown exponentially but yet overall, we’re in progressively worse shape than at any time in our history. What’s the problem? I’ll tell you what the problem is—it’s us. When man intervenes things start to get all mucked up.

We’ve 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 thrived. 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.

Our ancestors didn’t order carry-out food. If they were hungry they had to go out and forage or hunt. And while doing this, sometimes they got chased by wolves, bears or other humans. Food had to be carried across distances. If 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 a daily basis, we just naturally got the best results without even thinking about it. Our ancestors—the hunter/gatherers and the warrior cultures developed into what they were and thrived because if they didn’t, they would have perished.

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And if we today want to see the same kind of results and be lean, muscular, strong and healthy, we need to stop looking for the magic bullet and look to our past. We need to get primal and train the way nature intended our bodies to train. To get really healthy and get the bodies we want we need to exercise the way our ancestors lived by getting primal in our workouts. So how’s a modern 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, powerlifting, strongman and cardio and combining them into a cohesive training philosophy that essentially mimics the sorts of intense physical activities our ancestors would have done on a daily basis. The approach runs totally contrary to most of what you may have read in magazines but most “revolutionary” ideas have done the same. It’s a way to burn fat and build muscle at the same time, without the hit or miss—mostly miss—hassles of bulking and cutting. Lean Hybrid Muscle Training will really supercharge workouts and completely maximize your results.

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14 comments - add yours
Gregory Meyers

January 29, 2010

Guys, I had the pleasure of having Dr. McDavid [he of the McDavid sports braces] as a professor during my masters classes and one of his favorite myths was warm ups and stretching. His example was also this; as a hunter, when was the last time you saw a rabbit or deer get up and stretch before he took off at top speed to avoid you killing him? Good point.

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Marcus Reply:

What is the first thing a lion does when it gets up after sleeping? Or all
big cats for that matter? They immediately stretch their whole body.
And I would personally like to mimic the powerful lion, than to mimic
a scrawny rabbit.

Just my thoughts on it.

Cheers

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leanhybr Reply:

Okay my dog is no lion, but he’s no rabbit either. What’s cool is he can be sound asleep and than leap of the bed into a full sprint in a split second if he hears something. But than again he always stretches like crazy before he knows he’s about to go on a long walk. – Mike

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Troy Reply:

I do my stretching when the workout is done. I do like warm up a bit to get my body ready for the onslaught though. I think it helps get your body ready to go. Get the juices flowing.

I now have a lot of multi-joint, near full body exercises in my workouts. If you aren’t doing these kinds of exercises, then you aren’t working out. Nothing gets the heart pumping like these exercises. This is a test of how your body as a whole is doing. It’s becoming obvious of how important the multi-joint, full body exercises are. Your core stability and strength seems to lie within these exercises. They more accurately mimic what we would do naturally, if we were out doing shit.

I don’t even know if you need to do a single barbell curl, or a single isolated military press, or a single calf raise, for that matter, to build an astounding and strong physique. If you’re going to lift a pack of shingles, you probably aren’t going to curl it like a barbell, you’re going to get down there and dig in with your legs, back, arms, forearms, chest, shoulders, and you’re going to lift that Mofo.

I’m starting to see how uncoordinated my body still is when I tried some “squat presses” with dumbbells. More work to do. So many years, all I knew was gym strength. That’s why I sucked a lot in the real world. When it came time to lift a heavy couch, all that strength I possessed in the gym didn’t mean shit. I whined like a little baby because it was so heavy. Too much work, fear of lost gains! My body couldn’t handle the real stuff. My body as a whole didn’t know what to do. I spent a lot of time with upper back pain, perhaps had I trained my body as a whole like our bodies should be trained, this may have never happened?

Starting to see the light Mike and E! Thank you for putting this out there.

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Dylan Moore

January 29, 2010

I totally agree about being primal. People have definitely gotten lazy in the past few decades. Men need to be men and sweat testosterone! But anywho I think Gorillas or Grizzly Bears might be the most brutal animals there are. They’re both super strong and I wouldn’t want to come face to face with one ever.

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Mads

January 29, 2010

I totally agree. plus, when you go primal, get angry at that weight, lift that motherfucker overhead, and do things we were naturally born to do, maan, you can, like, taste the testosteron in the air.. It’s the greatest feeling there is.

My favorite animal has always been the siberian tiger. It’s super strong, explosive, lean and beautiful. In my oppinion, it’s the most ultimate nature has to offer in our time

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J

January 29, 2010

Hands down doormice. One beat the crap out of my nanna last Wednesday!

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Brian

January 29, 2010

I have two favorite beasts- one is the lion. Proverbs 30:30 says “the lion which is mightiest among beasts and does not turn away from any.” At the high school where I run the weight room the Lion is the mascot and in the weight room I have posted the “10 Commandments of the Weight Room”; number 10 says:
“You are a Lion, you shall not turn away from anything. If anything tries to confront you, you shall attack it, chew it to pieces, and spit out the bones – then come back and LIFT MORE WEIGHT!” The boys really dig that, it fires them up!
My second and personal fav would be the Gorilla. He is by far the biggest, baddest and strongest primal beast in the jungle! If someone just looks at him (or his woman) the wrong way, it’s go-time!
Great program Mike & E – rage against the weak and non-primal!

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Sean Kenny

January 30, 2010

Great post. Unfortunately nowadays people pay too much attention to science, supplements, and they are afraid of hard work. Sometimes science have to be neglected and should train and move naturally. We still have the physical components to become some amazing physical creatures. However the weakness and most critical muscle that is neglected is mental strength.

The difference between modern people and animals is that the large majority of modern people lack mental strength. They give up to easy, are afraid of hard work, are impatience and can not withstand discomfort.

Men and women should be training outdoors in the elements with heavy weights, calisthenics, movements. People should stay away from machines. It turns us into lazy beings who cannot even withstand the stabilization of the weight they are trying to move.

Anyway keep up the great work.

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leanhybr Reply:

Sean, you’d make an excellent guest “poster”. Great response! Mike

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Dominic

January 30, 2010

Some ants can carry items 10 – 50times their body weight …

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Dano

February 2, 2010

This was an excellent article. I totally agree and I see how our new culture and technology has softened us. I see it every day when I shop or go to the gym. It’s a shame. I like your way of explaining and seeing thing. I want to incorporate more of your view into my life, thanks!

Dano – Chicago

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DJ

February 3, 2010

i agrre with your artical and we have become very lazy. if we want to get back to the lean and powerful shape our ancestors was in you have to primal.

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JCChampion

February 7, 2010

Definitely, the Jack Russel dog!

These annoying little creatures are tiny bags of nothing but pure muscle, in highly-ripped definition. And it shows in their attitude, too. They think they are the biggest and baddest animals on the planet, humans included.

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