I know I've already blogged about this before, but my two favorite things are pirates and good health, so I can't help but combine the two occasionally. This is a
health blog, after all. So here goes...
Pirate Muscles:
One of the biggest problems with modern day fitness is the tendency at repetitiveness. Because so many people live lives between the bed, the car, and the cubicle, good fitness is something to be penciled in, to be scheduled around, to be sectioned off.
The office work goes to the gym diligently, spents 30 minutes a day on the elliptical machine, five days a week, works out with 5 different sets of dumbells in an acute pattern of weight lifting.
Even athletes tend to sectionalize their aerobic routines. They train to develop the strengths they need for a specific sport. The perfect example is the cyclist who has overdeveloped cycling muscles, and thus has less balance because of a disproportionate strength in other leg muscles and the upper body.
Pirates, however, use their whole bodies in their physical exertion. Nautical life requires strength in all areas, endurance, core power, developed muscles, and the necessity of fast anaerobic bursts in times of emergency. the variety of exercises spread out over the day is what keeps the pirate at peak physical condition.
And as an afterthought, this
paleo diet link is frickin' sweet.
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