Paleolympic Lifts, Run-a-mocs

Recently, much of my focus is on functional exercise. Stability, natural movement, stress relief, and a guilty obsession with some less-functional upper body lifts. I'm loving olympic style lifts, i.e. cleans, clean jerks, deck snatches, overhead squats and presses. I thought this morning when I was doing some power cleans(taken from the deck, full stand at end) about the ridiculousness of some exercises I use, and how they might fit into my whole Paleo-scheme. So I associated some exercises I do with functional movement that could be seen as an ancestral essential. Some of these are a stretch, but it's useful to examine practicality every once in awhile

-Clean and jerks: hoisting a hunted animal up over head to a ledge, hoisting rocks up to a ledge to build something
-Cleans: Lifting and holding an animal onto a roasting spit
-Barbell Row: General lifting, building, setting traps, improved strength for climbing(maybe my ancestors were mountainous?)
-Pullups: climbing, jumping in trees quickly to avoid predators
-Planks/Plank Rows: General help for heavy lifting, balance, stability, hip mobility, spine protection.


Runamocs
Ordered yesterday, got the 5mm trail sole. Booyah


Rainy days and Reading
Currently reading the protein debate outside on the porch, watching the rain. Good read, the next read is the full China Study being torn apart. And in between all this, I'm still finishing The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan