A Tree-Climbing Modern-Caveman's Secrets To Living Ancestrally In A Modern World.
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🗓️ 24 November 2015
⏱️ 53 minutes
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That guy in the photo above climbing the tree like an ancient ape is Tony Federico. Tony is one of the leaders of the Paleo movement, and a guy I met several years ago at the PaleoFx conference. He is the host of the Paleo Magazine Radio podcast, editor of Paleo Fitness Magazine, and the author of "Paleo Grilling: A Modern Caveman's Guide to Cooking with Fire". In addition to his work in the Paleo community, Tony is a full-time personal trainer with 10 years of experience in the fitness industry... ...and he's quite knowledgeable on living ancestrally in a modern world, even if you don't have any desire to be a coconut-collecting caveman.
During our discussion, you'll discover:
-How Tony has biohacked his office to make it more ancestral...
-Why sitting isn't necessarily evil...
-How you can figure out what's ancestral and what's not...
-How you can sleep ancestrally, yet still live a modern life with streetlights, car headlights, night work, etc...
-How you can tweak your electronic environment at work to be more ancestral...
-Whether Crossfit, Spartan, triathlons, etc. are ancestral forms of movement...
-And much more!
Resources from this episode: -Daylamp Light -Stand Steady -Melatonin Patch -NASA Clean Air Study -The Paleo Manifesto book by John Durant -MovNat by Erwin Le Corre
Do you have questions, comments or feedback for Tony or me about marrying modern living with ancestral fitness? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and one of us will reply.
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| 0:00.0 | In this episode of the Benbury from Fitness Show. |
| 0:04.4 | For my phone, I don't ever have the ringer on. |
| 0:06.7 | I kind of keep it on vibrate. |
| 0:07.9 | I notice within myself and you may have a similar experience, but I can perceive stress |
| 0:11.6 | in my body pretty well. |
| 0:12.6 | I know when I kind of flip that fighter flight switch, you can kind of feel yourself getting |
| 0:16.2 | a little jacked up. |
| 0:17.2 | And I notice every time the phone rings, I've got to get to the phone. |
| 0:19.6 | A little bit of fighter flight. |
| 0:21.0 | Let's say you're getting the correct wavelength of light exposure, you know, blue light during |
| 0:25.0 | the day and maybe orange or yellow as you kind of get along a little bit later. |
| 0:28.5 | So you're doing those kind of big checklist items. |
| 0:30.8 | I think we're going to start to get more and more into the role of a electromagnetic radiation |
| 0:35.4 | in health. |
| 0:36.4 | He's an expert in human performance and nutrition. |
| 0:40.0 | Voted America's top personal trainer and one of the globe's most influential people |
| 0:44.1 | in health and fitness. |
| 0:46.1 | His show provides you with everything you need to optimize physical and mental performance. |
| 0:51.5 | He is Ben Greenfield. |
| 0:54.0 | Power. |
| 0:55.0 | Speed, mobility, balance, whatever it is for you that's the natural movement. |
| 1:02.0 | Get out there. |
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