Do you need a chair to sit on the floor?
Yes it seems silly. No, it might not be. Read on and tell us if you agree!
Stimuli to get across domains and the strategies to get them
As we’ve explored in previous posts, our bodies require specific stimuli to stay healthy, similar to the ones our early Homo Sapiens ancestors experienced through their lifestyle and environment. To better understand and incorporate these stimuli into our modern lives, it’s helpful to classify them into four domains: physical, nutritional, mental, and environmental. The Four […]
Principles for a Foresighted Lifestyle: the Environmental & Mental domains
What are the target stimuli to achieve? Apart from the lack of pollution of all kind of course, here are other stimuli that were part of the environment: Strategies & Principles to adopt Get more connection with nature Spending time in nature has demonstrated benefits, most of them on our mental health, with countless academic […]
Principles for a Foresighted Lifestyle: the Nutritional Domain
What are the target stimuli to achieve? The nutritional stimuli that have shaped our biology can be summarised as: Omnivorous Diet Early Homo sapiens were opportunistic eaters, consuming a wide variety of foods available in their environment. This varied diet included: Nutrient-Dense Foods The foods available to early humans were generally more nutrient-dense than many […]
Principles for a Foresighted Lifestyle: the Physical Domain
First, what are the target stimuli to achieve? We know we need to give our bodies stimuli so they stay healthy and strong. What are they? The physical stimuli needed Our bodies are literally designed to operate in a lifestyle that has high volume of physical activity in general, with a high variety, and varying […]
Mindset shift: consciously seek and relish physical efforts
Our bodies have evolved in an energy-scarce environment and our instinct and physiology are geared towards conserving as much energy as possible, which make us expend the least amount of effort each time we do a physical task. That was adapted to our biological needs when we had to do a lot of physical activity […]
Become invulnerable to social awkwardness
We’re social animals whose instincts value immensely social recognition. Being rejected from your nomadic hunter-gatherer group in the past essentially meant death, so evolution selected us to value social conformity. Unfortunately, conformity in our modern western societies also means poor general health and poor physical and mental capabilities. So we have to become comfortable with […]
A short primer on Movnat®, its benefits & advantages as a fitness practice
What is Movnat? Movnat is a fitness training method and physical education system that was developed over 12 years ago by Erwan Le Corre and which has grown exponentially since then. Below is the 2008 video that first popularized his ideas: the workout the world forgot. A repertoire of movement based on evolutionary biology Movnat […]
Reframe your definition of training: you’ll train more and more effectively
How do you define fitness training? This is a question worth asking yourself as it is almost certainly limiting the total volume (and the quality) of your training. Most people view training as either working out or specific sports training. That’s it, there isn’t much to it. And I get it, we’re encouraged to view […]
Add intensity to your physical activity with contextual visualization
One crucial aspect of maximizing training performance is to maximize the Volume and Intensity of your workout (without compromising recovery). In plain English, you should train past your self-perceived limits and push through the moment when you think you cannot go any further. Because in fact you can. Let’s see how. Contextual visualization versus rehearsal […]
Know the incredible value of training in non-fitness environments
Training or working out is generally seen as an activity that should be done in a gym, at an outdoor fitness station or class, or at home. And it should be done with the appropriate fitness equipment, otherwise it’s not “real” training. In other words, it should be done in an “appropriate” location with the […]
Don’t train for specific movements, train for broad physical capabilities
Most people have training goals in the form of: achieve my first pull-up or reach 10 reps of perfect form pull-ups achieve my first muscle or reach 3 reps in a row etc… The problem with this approach is that it automatically limits your training volume because you try to get training time that will […]
Training many times in small amount of time throughout the day is as beneficial as a 1h workout
One of the most limiting beliefs for most people is that they need to do a 1h workout session to get significant fitness results, and of course 1h of dedicated time to fitness training is very difficult to find, so most end up doing nothing. But if you seize all the opportunities to get some […]
Get more physical activity with Simultaneous Training
Similar to Opportunistic Training, Simultaneous Training (ST) is a training type that doesn’t require dedicated training time in your schedule, since you do it while doing other activities. Mastering ST is a very powerful way to actually increase your training volume even while trying to cope with a Frankenstein schedule. There are 3 main ways to get […]
Train more with Opportunistic Training
Opportunistic Training (OT) is the training type that is closest to your typical “gym workout time” and refers to those occasions where you do have time to train for more than 10 mins in an uninterrupted block of time. What you don’t have, and what distinguishes OT from normal structured training, is the possibility to plan […]