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  • Animal Moves: How to move like an animal to get you leaner, fitter, stronger and healthier for life
    Animal Moves: How to move like an animal to get you leaner, fitter, stronger and healthier for life
    by Darryl Edwards

    Animal Moves

    • improve strength, speed and stamina
    • increase mobility, flexibility and stability
    • look, feel and perform better

    Find out more and details on how to purchase at www.animalmovesbook.com

  • Paleo from A to Z: A reference guide to better health through nutrition and lifestyle. How to eat, live and thrive as nature intended!
    Paleo from A to Z: A reference guide to better health through nutrition and lifestyle. How to eat, live and thrive as nature intended!
    by Darryl Edwards

    "If you are looking for a simple way to better understand Paleo concepts, Darryl's Paleo from A to Z guide is the go-to resource.
    -Mark Sisson, best-selling author of The Primal Blueprint and publisher of Mark's Daily Apple

  • Paleo Fitness - A Primal Training and Nutrition Program to Get Lean, Strong and Healthy
    Paleo Fitness - A Primal Training and Nutrition Program to Get Lean, Strong and Healthy
    by Darryl Edwards, Brett Stewart, Jason Warner

    "This book is a useful reference to enable individuals just starting out on the Paleo path as well as those who want to explore more challenging, playful and interesting ways to move."

    -Robb Wolf, New York Times best-selling author of The Paleo Solution

     

  • 7 Day Introduction to Paleo Fitness: Get Fitter, Get Stronger, Get Healthier in Seven Days. Move as Nature Intended.
    7 Day Introduction to Paleo Fitness: Get Fitter, Get Stronger, Get Healthier in Seven Days. Move as Nature Intended.
    by Darryl Edwards
  • The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet
    The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet
    by Robb Wolf
  • Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
    Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
    by Robert M. Sapolsky
  • Primal Blueprint: Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health & Boundless Energy (Primal Blueprint Series)
    Primal Blueprint: Reprogram Your Genes for Effortless Weight Loss, Vibrant Health & Boundless Energy (Primal Blueprint Series)
    by Mark Sisson
  • Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
    Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things
    by Rick Smith, Bruce Lourie, Sarah Dopp
  • Wahls Protocol, The : A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles
    Wahls Protocol, The : A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles
    by Terry Wahls, Eve Adamson
  • Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
    Born to Run: The Hidden Tribe, the Ultra-Runners, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
    by Christopher McDougall
  • In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating: An Eater's Manifesto
    In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating: An Eater's Manifesto
    by Michael Pollan
  • Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
    Food Rules: An Eater's Manual
    by Michael Pollan
  • The Paleo Diet for Athletes
    The Paleo Diet for Athletes
    by L. Cordain
  • Vegetarian Myth, The
    Vegetarian Myth, The
    by Lierre Keith
  • The Second Brain
    The Second Brain
    by Michael D. Gershon
  • The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat
    The Paleo Diet: Lose Weight and Get Healthy by Eating the Foods You Were Designed to Eat
    by Loren Cordain
  • Eat Drink Paleo
    Eat Drink Paleo
    by Irena Macri
  • Cholesterol Clarity: What the HDL is Wrong with My Numbers?
    Cholesterol Clarity: What the HDL is Wrong with My Numbers?
    by Jimmy Moore, Eric C. Westman

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Monday
Feb272012

Guest Post: The Right Motion for Exploring Fitness

This is the second in a series of guest posts by Susan Alexander.

Quick recap
: The first post was about Mindset, which is the first of four principles of the model I created to empower any change you want to make in your life - whether it's exploring fitness, learning to eat sensibly, remaking yourself in some way, or any other change.

This post is about Motion, the model's second principle. Motion is the term I've given to the combined actions you take to bring about a chosen change. Whatever the change is, and whatever the actions are, they fit into the same evolutionary process that made the world what it is, organism by organism, ecosystem by ecosystem.

The process is natural selection, aka classic trial and error. Once we recognize that the process that evolved the world is the same process that evolves us throughout our lives, we can tap into it whenever we choose to make change happen.

The motion process - distilled to its essence

In classic trial and error, this is all you do, over and over:

  • First and foremost, reject what doesn’t work.
  • Be extremely open to what might work. Try things out. Experiment.
  • Draw information from your inevitable mistakes and quickly correct them along the way.
  • Find what does work. Once you do, keep doing it, tweaking and iterating to maintain an upward trajectory.
  • Keep working. Awareness is key. Denial is the enemy. There may come a time when what works now doesn't work anymore. When that happens, stop doing it.
  • Keep looping through the process to keep evolving.

The takeaway

You can take any actions specific to any change and implement them through this process. Looking at change in evolutionary terms demystifies it and transforms it into something we can be open to. So does seeing change for what it really is: learning skill. It doesn’t matter what kind of change you're making. Every change is skill-based, whether it’s physical (like working out in a new way), or routine (like eating differently), or thought-related (like changing a belief), or character-related (like becoming more assertive).

What's next?

As explained in the last guest post, my niche topic is personal change. I've taken all that I've learned so far and distilled it into four essential principles that drive change. Together, they comprise a model you can store in your head and use anytime you want to make a change in your life. So far, we've covered the first two principles, Mindset and Motion. In future posts, we'll cover the remaining two: Mastery and Measurement.

Over to you: Have you ever thought of change in evolutionary terms? Have you ever been conscious of teaching yourself something through classic trial and error? Does it help to look at the learning process through this evolutionary lens? Let's talk in the comments.

Susan Alexander blogs at gooddisruptivechange.com

You can follow her on Twitter at @SusanRPM4.