We Love Paleo Page #8

That's how it's found in nature.

That's how

we're supposed to eat it.

That's the best thing

for our body.

So when you look at it

through that lens,

it perhaps doesn't look so mad

that saturated fat

doesn't appear

to cause heart disease at all.

People are encountering

higher rates of heart disease

than ever before,

even though we've had 30 years

of this low-fat diet mantra.

It definitely isn't working.

I'm... very excited

any time I see an article

in the media

about how maybe saturated fat

isn't that bad for us,

and I feel like

we're coming out

of the dark ages...

on at least that level.

By increasing the amount

of dietary fat that

I've been taking,

I've actually improved

my blood profile,

my blood marker profile

for cholesterol

and triglycerides.

That's evidence for me

that this journey

is worthwhile partaking.

[Johannes Kwella]

Our overall activity level

shrinks down dramatically.

So, we sit in an office

for 8 to 12 hours.

Then we drive

directly into a bar,

sitting down again.

Sitting in a car.

Sitting in a bar.

Going home

and sitting down on a couch

in front of a TV.

So, basically,

all we do is sitting

and getting from our chair

to our car or to the next chair.

The whole ethos now

is to sit down at a desk

and at a computer all day.

We sit in such a closed position

which is terrible

for our posture,

terrible for our bowel function,

terrible for the whole way

our body just processes food,

energy, blood, water.

[Farley] It's a sad statement

about the health

of our population

when people consider walking

from one place to the other

an exercise.

That's just how

we're supposed to move, right?

There are tons of people

coming into the BOX

and having no results at all

or getting stuck

throughout a routine

at a conventional gym

or commercial gym.

And then they,

within the shortest time,

sometimes within

two to four weeks,

sometimes up to 8 to 12

or 16 weeks,

they get amazing results.

The most of the time,

it goes hand in

with an approach to better diet.

If you eat right,

that's 85, 90%

If you go for walks,

that's another 5%.

But if you wanna take it

to the next step,

then weight-bearing exercise,

anabolic exercises

like weight training

and sprint work would be best,

or high-intensity sprints

on bikes, that type of thing.

What we're doing here is

we warm you up,

and then we get you through

a really high-intensity workout,

which is, like,

short but intense.

So, it's mimicking more

this flight or fight mode,

and it's not extensive cardio

and extensive stress levels.

What you don't wanna do

is chronic, repetitive,

long-distance cardio.

So, events that would be

more than 20 or 30 minutes.

Sprints cause a powerful,

positive hormonal cascade

in the body,

increasing testosterone,

growth hormone release,

which tends to create

an anabolic environment that

burns fat and builds muscle.

So a sprint would be...

I think, probably

the most powerful single form

of exercise you can do.

I would put it even higher

than weight training.

I would put weight training

just slightly below that.

Because you're using

your full body.

Now, for some people

who can't run sprints,

the second best thing would be

do sprints on an exercise bike

and then combine that

with weight training.

And weight training is just

putting a certain set of muscles

through a sprint

against a weight.

If you think

of counting the reps

as just a way of counting time,

then you just...

and each rep is taking,

say, three seconds,

then you 10 reps,

that's a 30-second activity.

So that's how you would look

at weight training.

[exerting]

Rather than activating

a small set of muscles

or a small area of their body,

we're just trying to make

and help people get the most

out of their body.

Functional movement,

it's not just about

lifting heavy weights

and just sort of burpees,

you know.

There's a lot of movement

in nature that we do already

that's very functional,

and it's the way

our body is designed to move.

Whether

it's swimming in the ocean,

or hiking in the mountains,

or in my case, you know,

I like rock climbing,

because

it's something very primal.

There's flow when you do it.

It's almost like

a meditative state.

You know,

you're using the whole body.

You're kind of playing

with another object.

And it's a very social sport,

almost sort of tribal...

to me, anyway.

But I think people have

to sort of re-evaluate

what functional movement is.

Sometimes, it's just

walking up the hill really fast,

or climbing up a tree,

or lifting heavy boxes

and things like that.

You can find functional movement

in everyday life.

[Darryl]

We need to have an adequate

and substantial amount

of movement

in order to be better aligned

with our genetic heritage.

[Darryl] Again, looking at

our hunter-gatherer ancestors,

they had to move

as part and parcel

of their day-to-day existence.

If they didn't move,

they couldn't eat.

It was as simple as that.

So today,

although we don't have

to hunt and gather our food

as we did in the past,

we still need to mimic

some of those ancestral

movement patterns.

So, from walking, to sprinting,

to lifting heavy loads,

to kind of crawling, jumping,

all of the kind of

fundamental movement patterns

that were important then

are just as important now.

[laughing]

There's definitely a discord

between conventional workout

methodology

and what we should be doing

according to our genetic

heritage.

So, exercise today

is very much about performance.

Sometimes it's seen

as a way to lose weight.

Very often, it isn't seen

as a way to promote good health.

Growing up, my father

was completely stressed out.

But he would go "play" tennis,

and it was like a chore.

Because it's like,

"Aw, crap, I'm late,

and I gotta rush over there.

And now, I'm gonna play tennis,

and we're gonna make it

totally competitive."

Which nothing wrong with that,

but it doesn't...

alleviate stress.

It's not relaxing.

And then rush home

and do whatever.

Most of the practices

that we follow

in terms of exercise

tend to be very specialist.

So, I'm a runner,

so I will continue to run,

and I will continue to run

further distances

and increase my volume.

If I'm great at playing

a particular sport,

I'll spend my time

and invest my time

in that particular sport.

But as humans,

we were designed

to be movement generalists.

We weren't designed

to be focused

on one particular activity.

We would have to cover

a wide range of movements.

[Naomi] I really have never

related well to exercise, like,

in a gym setting.

I never

really have responded well

to, like, pushing my body

to the physical limits

just to get physical results.

But I enjoy going

out into nature,

and moving my body,

and going on hikes,

and interacting with water,

and trees, and wind.

And you know what?

That, to me, I think

is very kind of primal

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