Exercising of ancient man?

[Gem]

Originally Posted by Skins_Princess

Okay so obviously ancient and pre-historic times required a lot more physical, natural labor than modern times do but are there no more exercises (other than yoga and tai chi) that can inspire modern men?

Pilates ?

[Silver]

This may sound crazy, but I read somewhere recently that simple push-ups and pull-ups if done technically correct can really do a body good, trimming and all that.

[norseman]

Read somewhere that anything which makes you sweat and pushes your pulse up does the job - so, all the cardio-vascular stuff.
One simple but brutal one uses an ordinary dining chair. Sit down, stand up without using your arms to push. Do that over and over and over and ..........

Yoga, as we know it today isnt "ancient". Sure the roots of it are, but "YOGA" isnt.

The only exsersise we had was hunting and gathering, as well as using an almost unique hunting type:exhaustion hunting.

Basically, we arent strong enough to tae down big game one on one, but we are SMART enough. Humans can out run anything over long distance, elephant, gazelle, deer, moose... name it. We are built to run for hours and hours on end, in blazing hot sun, day and or night.

Just living day to day was exsersise, bringing home game, and food, planting, building, walking, running, everything was done by hand.

Then you get a bit further, and you get the invention of wrestling, and olympic sports in greece, and other types of combat type exsersises. There was also war training, as well as building. You had no choice. If you were weak, you didnt survive.

Now these days, we dont do anything for ourselves, so we need to suppliment our lazy lives with lifting weights nd what not, because we lack the day to day physical activities we used to do, due to technology.

[Zero]

I believe that actually humans did not run so much, we walked around most of the day but tended to injure and trail animals rather than chase after them. Also, women would mostly have just walked around while carrying heavy things (babies).

Originally Posted by Zero

I believe that actually humans did not run so much, we walked around most of the day but tended to injure and trail animals rather than chase after them. Also, women would mostly have just walked around while carrying heavy things (babies).

I have to disagree. Physicaly, we are made to run, and run, and run. We are meant to over excert ourselves. Its how we hunted for a very long time. Africans STILL practice this today, and if you know greek history (the battle of marathon), its shown in that text as well.

Even walking sure, we can walk forever if we allowed ourselves, but the bottom line is we are menat to be ACTIVE and work

Originally Posted by Time

I have to disagree. Physicaly, we are made to run, and run, and run. We are meant to over excert ourselves. Its how we hunted for a very long time. Africans STILL practice this today, and if you know greek history (the battle of marathon), its shown in that text as well.

Even walking sure, we can walk forever if we allowed ourselves, but the bottom line is we are menat to be ACTIVE and work

I never heard of "Battle of Marathon", interesting.

Originally Posted by Skins_Princess

I never heard of "Battle of Marathon", interesting.

Lets see what I can remember... LOL

IT was after the battle of thermopyle (the movie 300). The persians were marching on athens, and the greeks needed back up. They send someone to literally run accross the country and back within a few days, and greece won the battle.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon

I don't think ancient man was doing yoga, I think the closest thing that one could get to what ancient man was doing is Parkour because of all of the running/jumping/using body strength/etc and even that is a bit of a stretch. I always work muscles that I would use in the event that I would need to use to save my own life more than others. Remember, we had to hunt,gather,climb,build,run from predators...not stand on our head,do planks, or do the downward dog. Hahaa