Quote from: samjohn on January 31, 2011, 08:16:18 AM

The same single coach can say different versions of "nothing is as important as insert exercise name " 365+ times per year.

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Didn't mean anything by it, just seems like every single exercise article I read contains the words 'most important exercise' but referring to completely different things.

Not rubbishing the loaded carry here - obviously it's a great exercise, but as someone else mentioned pushups, burpees, chinups etc do mimic movements that a paleo man would have encountered day to day anyway. Climbing a tree - chinups. Jumping out of the crub to chase some game - burpees etc etc. I don't think it's fair to say these exercises aren't paleo...

Ok, fair point 

And yet when I was talking about my crossfit session - yes, only the one, but which form of exercise seems to get a bad rap - it consisted of a farmers walk, tractor tyre flipping and carrying a weight above the head with straight arms (waiter's walk) while lunging - perfect according to the link - and in fact, even though it's mega tiring to do, not to mention slightly nauseating, I love it - I much prefer that type of exercise to any other kind because it's competing against yourself, you can easily measure progress and you certainly know you've worked afterwards.  It's a sense of achievement and you move/use your whole body without even really thinking about it.

I'm gonna incorporate some of this stuff at home as I have a very long, straight hallway - so I can famers walk etc. up and down to my hearts content - also it's too bloody hot outside at the moment. Farmer's walking in 40 degree C heat is not funny.

   Let's see, to my knowledge primal man used clubs to obtain their food if they were lucky,  and used spears later on, which was the sport of choice should he want to eat.  Walking long distances, sprinting after animals, moving from cave to cave long distances (not moving around like the flintstones in their little buggy), gathering fruits, nuts, berries, etc., another sport for both men and women.  Learning to make weapons, learning to make fire, all of this took much time to learn.  I don't think that they would have been using chinning bars per sec, but perhaps grabbing onto tree branches to get up into trees once in a while would have worked to exercise those tight strong muscles.  Survival was their sport - they had many enemies.  Other tribes.  Animals.  Natural disasters, etc.  It all took it's toll.  But they were not long distance runners, they didn't have treadmills, they didn't have TV, no bowling alleys, etc., etc.  This is only my take on primative man.  At least that is what I learned at UCLA back in the 60's when I studied Physical Anthropology under Dr. Richard Leaky.  But don't listen to me, I'm only a gatherer, a woman.  (Ladies - LOL)

Wow that T-nation article was a great read.