Natural Movement.

macdiver

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I recently read Natural Born Hero's. Maybe I will read Born to Run someday. Anyways, Inspired by the book, this was today's exercise. This is a copy paste from my fitness journal that I keep on John Stone Fitness Forums.

I decided to do something different this morning. Over the winter, I noticed that Rehoboth installed oneof those fitness circuits in the park. I decided to do that for some fun. I ran to the park at a nice easy warm up pace (no targer hr). The circuit consisted of some stretching stations, different core work (hyperextensions, leq ups, sit ups), standard body weight strength stations (push ups, pull ups) and some fun things like monkey bars, vault station, rope climb.

i did one circuit using the prescribed exercise at the Intermediate repititions. Afterwords, I went back and did some climbing. I climbed to the top of the pull up statiion and then climbed down. I climbed up the rope then down the poles supporting the rope. I was going to walk across the monkey bars but chose not to do so (see below).

When I was there, there were some kids playing on the equipment. The mothers were watching them play. As I was doing my routine, I noticed they were watching me. I just figured that they didn't understand an adult playing on their playground. Once I started climbing, I heard them saying "look at that man" "he is barefoot" and "What is he doing?". I realized that they might try to copy me and didn't want to set to bad of an example so I stopped doing the really "dangerous" stuff.

The park is 0.7 miles from my condo so after my work out, I continued my run to get in a total of 3 miles. As I passed back by the park, I noticed the parents who previosly were just watching the kids play, playing with their kids on some of the stations. Maybe I set a
 
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"Born to Run" was so much better. I was excited for "Natural Born Heroes" but really disappointed in the book. Nothing ground breaking I guess, and the jumping around was a bit weird. The only interesting part of the book was when he talked about meeting Phil Maffetone.

Checkout this website for body weight/movement exercises.

https://gmb.io/
I agree that the book jumped around a lot. I also think some of the stuff he tried to link together was a bit if a stretch. While I like Maffetone and will do some MAF training I'm not sure that he tied into the subject that well. I did find the history aspect of the resistance movement on Crete fascinating.

I'm not really into body weight training that much. I had noticed the fitness circuit in the park over the winter and decided to give it a try as a change of pace.
 
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