Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

In today's episode, you're going to learn about three ways to use something called

natural movement to boost athleticism and fitness. I've recently been immersed in a bit of

summer reading, specifically this book

called Natural Born Heroes, how a daring band of misfits mastered the lost secrets of strength

and endurance. In the book, author Chris McDougal, who you may recognize as the same author of the

book Born to Run, travels to the Mediterranean to research the tale of a band of resistance

fighters in World War II who plotted the daring abduction of a German general from the heart

of the Nazi occupation. While there, he discovers that the secrets of ancient Greek heroes

are still alive and well in the razor-sharp mountains on the tiny island of Crete

and ready to be unleashed in the muscles and minds of casual athletes and aspiring heroes everywhere.

Well, in this story, McDougal discovers and describes fitness skills like natural movement,

efficient endurance, and fat-burning nutrition, skills that are still practice in far-flung

pockets throughout the world today, but that we often don't experience too much in our modern

culture of health clubs, nautilus machines, elliptical trainers, and detox spas.

Well, now that I'm almost finished with the book, I've been researching just a bit more

about this whole natural

movement thing. In last week's episode called Why You Need to Exercise Outdoors, I discussed a few of

these natural movement principles like strongman training and farmer style training and why you

mean need to exercise in places other than a conventional, polluted, stale gym setting. And I also recently

interviewed Chris McDougal over on my Ben Greenfield Fitness podcast. You can listen to that episode

at Ben Greenfield Fitness.com slash heroes. But in this week's episode, I'm going to teach you

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