Kellyann Petrucci - Paleo Workouts For Dummies

Paleo Workouts For Dummies

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Introduction

D ont expect to find anything new and exciting in this book because whenever someone comes along with a new and exciting exercise program, its generally all wrong. When it comes to fitness, a new way of doing something is rarely a better way of doing something. Its almost invariably the exchange of one nuisance for another.

Everything people need to know about fitness is already known. And everything people need to do, they can already do. Getting lean, fit, healthy, and strong arent functions of addition but rather subtraction. Its a matter of scaling back separating the gold from the garbage and focusing on the vital few efforts that are proven to get you the best results.

Paleo Workouts For Dummies is about scaling back and reducing exercise to its lowest, most profitable efforts. In other words, its about exercising like a cave man: no fancy equipment required just big, beautiful movements.

About This Book

A big part of Paleo Workouts For Dummies is dedicated to movement. Movement needs to be taken seriously. Movement is life after all; the old and dying are always stiff and hard, whereas the young and healthy are soft and supple. Age is but a number, friends. You are only as old as how well you move.

In this book, we help you move better by providing step-by-step tutorials on how to move more athletically, naturally. We provide the tips and tricks you need to move and exercise with near faultless form so you stay free from injury and get the most out of the exercise programs in Part III.

This book is also about helping you exercise more deliberately, or with a purpose. We provide specific, primal exercise programs designed to transform your body. When we say primal, we mean that all the exercise programs are centered on the fundamental human movements pushing, pulling, hinging, squatting, and carrying the movements that burn the most calories and build the most muscle.

Just as the Paleo diet is about eating like our ancestors (which we talk about in Part IV of this book), Paleo fitness is about moving like them. This means heavy lifting, sprinting, brisk walking, and a few other movements that the conveniences of modern day have made largely irrelevant.

This book is a stark movement in the opposite direction of the masses. Its unconventional, its contrarian, and its effective. And we say without any reservations whatsoever that if you truly want to blast fat, boost muscle, and build resilience, well, this book may be one of the most important books you ever read.

Foolish Assumptions

We assume only one thing about you, and that is that you want to improve your general condition or perhaps one condition specifically. We make that general assumption based on the following ideas about you, dear reader:

You want to be healthier, leaner, stronger, or more productive. Or perhaps you want to be all these things.

You want to lose weight, increase lean muscle mass, and improve athletic performance.

You dont know much about Paleo fitness.

Youve tried exercise programs in the past and havent been satisfied with the results or have been frustrated with the process.

You have your doctors approval to do the exercise programs in this book.

Note: We recommend that you get your doctors approval before beginning any exercise program, whether youre a novice or a veteran to fitness.

Icons Used in This Book

Throughout this book, and in true For Dummies fashion, youll see a number of icons in the margins all of them designed to help you better understand and get the most out of your Paleo fitness journey. Here are the icons and what each one means.