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March 21, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Big muscles don't give you "survival strength"

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	It's time for the Health Ranger Report.
	And now from NaturalNews.com, here's Mike Adams.
	This is a podcast about survival strength versus cosmetic muscle.
	Thank you for joining me.
	This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger here.
	You're listening to HealthRangerReport at HealthRangerReport.com.
	Now, what do I mean survival strength versus cosmetic muscle?
	Well, let's talk about cosmetic muscle first.
	This is the muscle that you get when you're working out at the gym on machines or on free weights and it's muscle for cosmetic purposes.
	It's not functional.
	And this is the way most people work out.
	They want to have big looking muscles, not really the best functioning muscles.
	Now, Functional strength is vastly more important for survival and preparedness.
	And if you want to see somebody who has functional strength, just look at a climber.
	Anyone who is a climber, rock wall climbing, you know, rope climbing, different kinds of climbing, that's someone who's got a strength to weight ratio.
	That is highly functional and very much aligned with principles of survival and preparedness.
	And that's what you're looking for.
	You want to have a high strength to weight ratio.
	Now, the problem with people who go to the gym and they just try to pump up good looking muscles for cosmetic purposes is that they really don't have much functional stamina.
	They've got a little bit of brute force strength, although less than you might imagine.
	But if they actually have to do functional exercises or functional work on a farm or a ranch or in, let's say, combat, you know, like military combat, they beat her out.
	They can't do it.
	Why is that?
	Because they're too heavy.
	They've got too much muscle to carry around.
	They don't have the stamina of the strength of really functional muscle.
	And you see this in special ops or Navy SEALs training, for example.
	There are a lot of guys who go into Navy SEALs training who are big, big, bulky cosmetic muscle guys.
	They've been at the gym.
	They've been pumping iron.
	They've been working out.
	And they fall out of the Navy SEALS program very quickly.
	Why is that?
	Because they have to drag all that useless muscle around.
	It's too much muscle.
	Because in the Navy SEALS, it's functional strength.
	Or other special operations training programs, it's functional strength.
	You're climbing up ropes.
	You're carrying a boat.
	Or you and a team are carrying a small boat into the ocean.
	Or you're carrying gear.
	You're hiking up a hill with 80 or 100 pounds on your back.
	You're carrying a rifle.
	You're carrying ammo.
	You're doing all these things.
	This is functional strength, and it's not the biggest, most brutish-looking guys that succeed at that.
	It's actually the more wiry guys, believe it or not.
	I mean, yeah, they've got muscle and they've got strength, but they're functional guys.
	A lot of them grew up on farms and ranches, by the way, and that's something that I have a lot of personal experience with being on a ranch right now.
	Living on a ranch in Texas for many years.
	I mean, I'm almost 50 years old.
	I'm not a big, bulky, muscly guy.
	I don't go to the gym.
	I don't pump iron to try to look muscly, but I have functional strength.
	I can carry bags of grain.
	I can move large boulders and rocks.
	I can shovel dirt, whatever I need to.
	I can wrangle a donkey.
	There was one time I picked up a donkey, a baby donkey.
	And I had to carry her.
	She was cold, actually.
	It was in the winter and it was raining and she was cold and she wasn't old enough.
	This was Hosanna, by the way.
	She wasn't old enough to have that big body mass and she was shivering.
	And I had to pick her up in both of my arms and walk her, I don't know how far it was, a couple hundred yards or something.
	You talk about a workout.
	It's a donkey.
	I mean, even when they're born, they're already pretty heavy.
	And she was a few weeks old, and I don't know how much she weighed, maybe 100 pounds, or more, 120, I don't know.
	But, you know, picking up a donkey and walking a donkey for a couple hundred yards in the freezing cold rain is, you know, it takes functional strength.
	And that's the kind of strength that you want if you're a prepper.
	If you're looking at survival training, Yeah, push-ups are good.
	Sit-ups are good.
	But that's functional body weight strength.
	That's good.
	I'm not a big fan of going to the gym and pumping iron.
	Now, I did recently set up a climbing rope in kind of a gymnasium area that I have access to.
	And I'm climbing the rope.
	Again, it's using body weight.
	And climbing a rope is just good exercise.
	Climb up, climb down, climb up again.
	Rope climbing is good exercise.
	All these things that are functional, that are real-world tasks, like carrying a bucket of water or a 50-pound bucket of wheat grain, for example.
	If you can move buckets around and carry them, you've got functional strength.
	If you can take a tire off a car, you jack up the car, you take the tire off the car, you lift the tire, that's a functional strength kind of activity.
	It's something that's very important to have.
	When you're talking about preparedness and survival strength.
	So one of the upshots from all this is that if things do hit the fan, we're going to find a lot of people who think they're strong suddenly coming to the realization that they're not actually very strong at all.
	And a lot of people are also going to realize that the guy who looks like he's got the biggest, bulkiest, most cosmetic muscles chiseled, he's got a six-pack.
	No, he's got a 10-pack.
	No, he's got a 12-pack.
	That's not the guy who's actually...
	The best prepper.
	That's not the guy who can usually stand hours and hours of gardening activity.
	Let's say, you know, hoeing weeds or working with animals or even just harvesting strawberries.
	You know, a big muscly guy out there in the garden harvesting strawberries is going to get fatigued because it's too heavy, too bulky for that kind of activity.
	So the winners in terms of survival and preparedness are not the big bulky people.
	So what are some good exercises that you can do to train for just survival strength, functional strength training?
	I like to say use body weight exercises.
	So push-ups are good because that's body weight.
	I also like to do a downward dog from the world of yoga and combine it with some push-ups.
	It's a really good combination.
	It does some stretching of the lower back.
	Stretching of the calves, but also you can come out of the downward dog and do some push-ups.
	You know, you go into plank, as it's called in yoga, then you do some push-ups, back into plank, and then back into downward dog.
	So body weight, body function exercises are really, really good.
	I already mentioned rope climbing is another good exercise.
	Just wall climbing is also very good.
	And you'll come to find very quickly that...
	You might be heavier than you thought when you try to climb a wall and you find out how quickly you can become fatigued.
	And by the way, if you're a big, tall guy like me, you know, you're over six foot one or whatever, don't expect to be a great wall climber.
	You know, the best climbers are guys who are like 110 pounds, like Spider-Man climbing up the wall.
	And there's a reason for that because of their strength to weight ratio.
	So it's not a competition with them.
	They're always going to be able to outclimb you and me.
	But it doesn't hurt for us to get on a climbing wall from time to time and see how What we can do and just boost our coordination and our grip strength.
	Oh, and speaking of grip strength, this is where having a ranch and taking care of animals and moving bags of grain around is a really great strength training exercise because most people spend so much time on computers and mobile devices.
	They have really crappy grip strength these days.
	It's a common problem of people in the cities.
	They can't grip anything for a long period of time.
	They can't hold on to things.
	They can't even...
	Hold themselves onto a pole, you know, like just hanging off of a pole or a tree branch or whatever.
	They can't even hold on.
	They fall off.
	Don't even talk about doing pull-ups or anything, you know.
	They just can't even hold on.
	You need to be able to hold on.
	You need to be able to not fall off a branch.
	So go out, find some trees, you know, grab onto them, hang there for a little bit.
	Or if you can do some pull-ups or partial pull-ups, do some pull-ups.
	It's a great exercise.
	Grip strength is good.
	If you've got a dog, you know, buy bigger bags of grain or dog food so that you are moving, you know, a 40 or 50 pound bag instead of a little tiny 15 pound bag.
	Work this into your lifestyle where you're moving heavier objects.
	Obviously, practice safe movement.
	Bend at the knees and so on.
	Don't hurt your back.
	All these things.
	Work your way up slowly.
	But it is good to have some difficult tasks in your day-to-day living.
	It's good to have to exert your muscles every day.
	And also, finally, my final recommendation is to do some body rolling because a lot of the body rolling, using a foam roller, If you do a lot of different rolling movements, and you can watch videos online or you can buy books on rolling, a lot of them build up strength.
	A lot of them, like you're rolling on your side, like your IT band on your legs.
	You're also on your elbow, so you're getting shoulder strength built up.
	You're getting abdominal, like the sides of your abdominals built up at the same time.
	A lot of the rolling motions double as strength training motions using your body weight and it's a double benefit.
	You're getting the muscle treatment of rolling which has been really extraordinary for myself and many other people in terms of preventing Back pain or preventing injuries or things like that, but also you're getting the strength building of using your elbows and shoulders and abdomen and all these other muscle groups.
	So body rolling is highly, highly recommended.
	In fact, if you don't take anything else away from this podcast, do some body rolling.
	That is good for you.
	It's good for prepping.
	It's good for really survival.
	It's good for your health.
	It's good for injury prevention.
	It helps your lower back feel better.
	Just loosening up your muscles, it is such a huge health benefit.
	This is something you don't want to miss.
	You know, don't pass this up.
	Get yourself a good foam roller and get into body rolling.
	I've done it every day, literally every day for years.
	I think I missed one day in, I don't know, a couple of years.
	But I do it every day.
	It is a very important part of strength training and disease prevention, chronic pain prevention, and so on.
	Thank you for listening.
	This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger for HealthRangerReport.com.
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