Play as if Your Life Depends on It: Functional Exercise and Living for Homosapiens

Play as if Your Life Depends on It: Functional Exercise and Living for Homosapiens

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Play as if Your Life Depends on It is an innovative and comprehensive look at human physical fitness and health. The orientation is primal, practical, and playful. It’s primal because it connects us with our hunting and gathering origins. Practical, because it teaches us how to integrate movement into our daily lives and train for the way we actually live. Playful, in the...more
Paperback, 318 pages
Published March 10th 2003 by Go Animal
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Joy Weese Moll
This is a fascinating book. It asked me to think about exercise in terms of how primal, practical, and playful it is. The primal section is a reminder that our bodies are not designed to sit in front of screens all day. The practical section got me to think about what functions that I want to develop through exercise in order to meet my goals. And the playful section is all about how to make exercise fun.

Edited to add: I flipped through this again recently and wrote more about it on my blog: Und...more
Ron
Pretty good principles. Not much help if you are looking for a guide to designing your own workout programs.
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