ProNature Fitness: Unlocking Radiant Health Through Smart Exercise

By Sergio Gonzalez

We all know exercise and movement are important for optimum health. What we don't all know however is how to go about it correctly. Just like the laws of aerodynamics govern what a plane must do to fly, so are there laws of health governing how we must move to be healthy. ProNature Fitness (PNF) is a fun, easy-to-read guide explaining the fitness aspect of these laws of health, and how to properly move to unlock amazing health. This guide is meant for people of all ages and fitness capacities. No matter what your background or current condition is, you have enormous potential within that can be realized with PNF. And in case you were wondering, no extra money or time is required. What is required is a commitment to your health, desire to improve, and willingness to use some of your effort in new, smarter ways.

Starting with the story of Maximus the caveman and how his story relates to the laws of health, the guide progresses through the do's and don'ts of exercise, and introduces a major key central to unlocking radiant health: the golden hormone. The seemingly magical benefits of this golden hormone are then listed and described, all of which are completely yours for the taking, starting today! The guide tells you exactly how you obtain them; how you must 'fly your plane' to stay in the air. Of course, correct exercise and movement alone are not the whole story, diet and lifestyle are equally important. Some basic yet powerful recommendations in these areas are provided so you may enhance your golden hormone's benefits. An optional supplementation guideline is included for those who wish to take their benefits to the max. For those of you who enjoy weightlifting and stretching, there are additional sections detailing how to go about them in a PNF-way. The guide concludes with a few practical suggestions and sample workouts to help you as you embark on a beautiful, world changing journey.

I invite you to join me in my pursuit to create a better world, full of healthier people, by living ProNature Fitness. I am as excited to help you as you are to help yourself! It gives me great satisfaction to help others become healthier. I want to see you succeed and bask in incredible life-long health. Read ProNature Fitness and email me any comments or questions you have. I look forward to helping you and hearing about your success with PNF!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sergio Gonzalez
• Release date: Jan 13, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301819355

Sergio Gonzalez

Cleantech enthusiast from Boise, Idaho.

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ProNature Fitness:

Unlocking Radiant Health

Through Smart Exercise

By Sergio Gonzalez

Published by Sergio Gonzalez at Smashwords

Copyright 2013 Sergio Gonzalez

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License Notes

This eBook is dedicated to all those who wish to unlock the potential for their mind and body to become the ultimate mechanisms to drive them not only to lifelong health and functionality, but to fortune, success, and most importantly, happiness as well.

This eBook was created for your personal enjoyment and improvement, but feel free to share it with others. This information is freely available so anyone can learn how to take control of their health. Also feel free to write a review, I appreciate any feedback I can get!

Warning-Disclaimer

I wrote this book to provide information in regard to the subject matter covered. Every effort has been made to make this book as complete and accurate as possible to my knowledge.

Participating in ProNature Fitness is strenuous on the body and may result in pain and injury. ProNature Fitness is not meant to be comfortable!

I shall have neither liability nor responsibility to any person or entity with respect to any loss, damage, or injury caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book. The information presented herein is in no way intended as a substitute for medical counseling or medical attention. Always consult a physician before embarking on any fitness or dietary program.

The purpose of this book is to provide information necessary for a healthier and happier life through smart fitness, strategic diet, and healthy lifestyle choices.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Golden Hormone & Its Benefits

Creating the Spark

Varying Fitness Level Applications

Dietary & Lifestyle Recommendations

Supplement Special

PNF Lifting Special

PNF Stretching Special

Final Thoughts

Sample PNF Workouts

Bibliography

Introduction

The human body is purely amazing. Realize it. It has evolved through time to become a highly tuned piece of magnificent biomachinery. No matter the circumstances, it will fight for preservation by adaptation and efficiency. It is capable of performing miracles that very few people are actually aware of, and best of all, it has the potential to become an ultimate mechanism to drive you to lifelong health, functionality, fortune, success, and happiness. You have it! You have the amazing biomachinery that is the human body! Why not use your body to its fullest potential so it may more readily reward you with the things you want most in life? Anyone, whether you are currently overweight or even if you think you are in good shape, can benefit from these tips and reach an ultimate body state. The key is in Nature and the golden hormone.

Our Body’s DNA has been Shaped by our Primitive Ancestors

Let’s start by looking at how Nature has shaped the human body’s fitness functions with the simple story of Maximus the caveman. Maximus woke up one morning in his cave to the wonderful pangs of hunger anyone has after going a day without hearty food. He picks up his jagged hunting rock and walks into the morning mist of the forest. After a few hours of walking, he spots a giant boar almost as big as him! The hunger drives him to stalk the big hairy boar that is trotting along, which luckily hasn’t noticed his presence.

Squatting down low and treading softly, he closes in on the boar swiftly. Maximus then charges at the boar with full speed, fire burning in his eyes for the prize of fresh meat. The boar quickly begins to run away, moving quickly between the trees and shrubs with great agility; Maximus follows the fleeting boar with equal agility, constantly changing directions and accelerating to keep up with the boar. Once he gets within a few feet of the running boar, with a giant leap, Maximus lunges and wrestles it to the ground, engaging in Nature’s beautiful battle of survival. Maximus knows he can’t mess up while trying to slay the beast, for it may get away. It would cost him too much energy to continue pursuing, or even worse, it may kill him. With an unbending will to kill the boar, Maximus continues to wrestle the boar until he is finally able to slay the beast! Exhausted and breathing very hard, his heart races, but that doesn’t faze him even one bit because he has earned his golden reward. Unfortunately, he can’t enjoy his victory for too long because behind him is a 1,000-pound wild saber-tooth tiger mobbing towards him! Maximus sprints toward a giant oak in the near distance, jumping onto it and climbing it as fast as he can by pulling himself up from branch to branch. The wild sabertooth tiger quickly starts to climb behind Maximus with fire in his eyes as he knows Maximus is nice and plump after feasting on the wild boar. Maximus thinks: Why doesn’t the stupid tiger just take the scraps of my wild boar! But Maximus doesn’t have time to think with a mouth full of 2-inch saber teeth anxiously waiting for him. He stops on a small branch high up in the tree and rips off another branch with all his might and stabs it at the saber-tooth which has climbed the tree behind him. The tiger has difficulty trying to swat away Maximus' branch and climb the tree at the same time. Maximus has his back against the wall and is fighting relentlessly after having just sprinted some hundred yards and climbing a tree in a few seconds. Maximus then happens to stab the saber-tooth in the eye and the fierce creature slowly backs away with a painful grunt, climbing back down the tree and moving away in defeat. Maximus wants to cry out in victory but he can’t because he can barely breathe! He has earned the golden reward once again, making the day a rare occasion.

This short story sums up how our bodies evolved and how they are designed to become ultimate tools of survival. Primal men gathered, scavenged, and hunted for thousands of years before agriculture and domestication became common place. Unfortunately for our bodies, with all the plentiful food agriculture and domestication have provided, it has also caused us to move less, eat more, and survive much easier. Primal men had to walk constantly to conserve precious high-octane fuel and mobilize themselves for long distances in search of food, and then when necessary, be able to use their high-octane fuel to become a fast and strong super organism for a short amount of time. Nature has find-tuned our bodies for short bursts of super exertion and low energy idling-like states, all in the name of survival. Short bursts to hunt precious food and save our lives from predators, and idling to walk and move long distances.

The Golden Reward

Remember the golden reward in the story? No, it’s not the wild boar or victory against a giant saber-tooth if that's what you're thinking! The golden reward is the adaptation of your body to the highest level of fitness and health it can achieve. After having sprinted and fought with all strength for food and survival, Maximus’ body released a very powerful hormone that makes him vibrant with health and gleaming in superior fitness. The golden reward is the release of this hormone, and you can attain it too! Its benefits will literally transform your body into the strong, fast, healthy, and attractive body you think only exists in your imagination. The golden reward is yours for the taking at any moment because it is resting inside your DNA makeup. Nature gave you this powerful hormone to give you the best chance of survival. It is what gives you every single feature that you think only belongs to young people.

Now you may be thinking: Just tell me the magical formula I need already! Not yet my friend! You must first gain understanding before you act because everything has a right and a wrong way of approaching it. Being able to distinguish right from wrong is essential for success in anything. Often times Nature holds the key to doing things the right way, so in order to do things right, we must learn to work with Nature, not against it. In this case, we want to know the right way to exercise for the chiseled, robust, and healthy body we all desire. We must therefore turn to Nature to understand the right way to exercise. Let’s take a look at why man has fattened up and how not all forms of exercise are the same.

How We Live Today

In terms of our physical health and robustness, it all went downhill with the technological cornerstones of mankind. Agriculture, civilization, sturdy homes, domestication of livestock, the wheel, the gun, and the automobile were all extraordinary inventions that have fundamentally shaped how we live today, but in terms of our health and robustness, they