So I wanna talk a bit about fitness, and how I'm working it more into my path.
Over the last two years, I've changed a lot of my eating habits. I've lost about 30 pounds (like 15 kilos I think?), but I've stalled around 215 pounds. I think I've made as much progress on that front as I can, so it's time to change.
On my current rewilding path, I've been listening a lot about natural movement and outdoor fitness as it applies to a feral human paradigm. One line that's stuck with me pretty hard is that we're all well adapted to our habitat. So if I want my adaptation to change, I need to adjust my habitat and how I interact with it. That's why I've been outside more and out at the woods every time I can squeeze in a few extra minutes.
So for fitness, I've been developing a lot the last week. Lots of stretches, just naturally moving myself differently in my environment, and I've been working on doing pull ups. Last week I did my first ever pull up, and now I'm doing three a night. I know it's nothing fancy, but that's where I'm starting. Literally at the bottom.
I also ordered some new shoes, and I'm going to start running again. I used to run a lot as a kid as part of my school's cross country team. At one point, I was running ten miles (~15km) a day. Today I doubt I could run a fifteen minute mile. Starting points. I'm going to start some trail running at a local hiking park. I'll likely start that this weekend, as it's going to be gorgeous weather.
In the natural community, there's a bunch of things to learn. Basically it's a lot of ancestral movement, and getting back to knowing how to move like we did before domestication. Very radical and exploratory, and it makes for a very fit body.
That's where I'm starting right now, and I'm kinda looking forward to documenting it more actively on steem using actifit.
Here's some ideas that have really stuck with me from Daniel Vitalis' podcast Rewild Yourself:
- If you are what you eat, why do you eat domesticated plants and animals?
- Ninety minutes of exercise and 22.5 hours of sedentary life does not mean you don't live a sedentary life.
- We're all perfectly adapted to our individual habitat.
- Why are shoes built in unnatural shapes compared to the human foot?
- Foraging cultures did exercise while getting their food. Whether that was squats while picking berries, running while chasing game, or climbing trees for foods. That was all very high activity that was function stacked with food gathering. We don't do that today.
I'm off to do some pull ups and squats.
