Posts tagged natural lifestyle
Sitting In A Cold River Talking About Cold Immersion

Have you ever wanted to watch an man sit in a cold river for 30 minutes (well, 15 minutes twice) and talk about the pros and cons of cold immersion. Well it's your lucky day because this is the video for you. I'll discuss the effects of a cold dip in the ice after training or competing, as well as the crazy and awesome guy Wim Hof himself, and where I think he is getting it right, and where I think he is getting it wrong.

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Outdoor Classrooms - Time For A Comeback?

In 1907 London County Council built the first open air school in the UK and by 1937 there were 96 open air day schools in operation throughout Britain, with 53 of them being residential. Children were taught in classrooms that were designed to be fully or partially exposed to the outdoors and even slept outside exposed to the elements.

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Movementum's Unofficial Guide to Surviving the Sedentary Office

As time moves on and more research is done on the subject it becomes increasingly clear that sitting at a desk all day isn't good for us, in either body or mind. The modern office based lifestyle is very different from the lifestyle of our prehistoric hunter gatherer ancestors, and yet our bodies aren't all that different at all, and this is the crux of the problem, our bodies just aren't equipped to deal with long periods of being still, if we were, we would be a tree, perfectly designed to sit in one place of years upon years.

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