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It seems that there's been quite a bit of talk lately about paleo diets and paleo nutrition.

So what is paleo?

Today you're going to find out not only what paleo

nutrition is, but also what paleo exercises and paleo workouts actually look like. The basic

idea behind the paleo style of eating is that you avoid many modern agricultural foods,

such as bread and cereal, and also highly processed foods,

artificial sweeteners, preservatives, and just about anything that our caveman ancestors wouldn't

have recognized as real food. Though there are good arguments, both for and against a paleo

approach to eating, one important question for fitness enthusiasts is, if I'm going to eat like a caveman, how do I exercise like a caveman?

Well, ancient man did not likely have access to fancy cardio machines, weightlifting apparatuses, or a posh gym membership.

Although there are certainly advantages to these modern-day fitness conveniences,

it is possible to build a very impressive and fit body using a range of movements that are called

functional or multi-joint exercises. These paleo exercises incorporate the same type of movements our

primal ancestors would have had to perform in order to survive in an

unpredictable environment, whether being chased by a lion, throwing a spear, moving heavy logs,

or rocks, or fighting. So, paleo exercises, or these types of functional movements, could be

broken down into the following seven categories, squatting, bending, lunging, pushing,

pulling, twisting, and running, or any other exercise that is some type of movement-like gait.

So let's start with the first one, squatting. To squat, you simply bend at the knees and the hips

while keeping your back relatively straight. You could place a weight on your back or on your shoulders, hold a weight to your chest, or simply

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