You can have the best nutrition in the world, but if you don’t wiggle each joint through its full range daily, the tissues which need it most remain starved to death.

Move every joint in the morning and at night for your tissue and organs. Get out of breath once a day for your lungs and heart. And press something heavy a couple times per week for your bones. Meditate and pray at least once a day because the mind is the one thing that requires stillness for optimal function. You are not made of food. You are made of your reactions to what you have ingested, what you cannot eliminate, and how youʼve moved that throughout your body. This fact that had accounted for my childhood obesity; perhaps even my joint disease. Not gluttony and lethargy; but a series of biochemical reactions to what I had been consuming, what could not be removed from my body and how I moved it around my system.

Some types of exercise cannot resolve it through caloric output; and in some cases, manage to exacerbate symptoms. Movement moves your nutrition, so if you have negative reactions, movement can spread them. However, some movement, proven only over centuries to be sustainable, can resolve symptoms, and eliminate the adverse effects.You don’t need create the perfect diet and workout approach. There isn’t one. There is only your ongoing exploration of your positive response to what you ingest, excrete and move throughout your body. It will change over seasons and years; with type of activity and level of emotional stress; with preventing, enduring and recovering from injuries and illnesses.

You can only be certain that even when you find the right approach today, it will eventually change. So, incorporate variety, as I have done for you here in the 5 Classics. Your movement health is a journey not defined by any of its destinations; it is a process not found in any one method, but across an exploration of the most time-tested. This may sound like it makes it more difficult. Well, it may. But at least, you no longer must suffer attempts to find and apply the perfect diet and workout program. And Iʼve consolidated the best that Iʼve found for you here. My journey began by first transitioning back to simple food and water, and performing the battle-proven classics of health fortification.Movement healed my cells because it was the delivery system for my nutrition. You’re supposed to listen to your cravings once you have reclaimed your intuition. They will tell you how to prevent, endure and recover from adverse reactions; what to take in and what to avoid; how to become your positive responses, and heal your negative reactions through movement.

My early genetic circumstances forced me to seek out alternative solutions to health and fitness. Over the decades Iʼve been traveling the globe practicing and training, and then teaching and coaching, I encountered many unconventional methods for keeping my joints healthy, my connective tissue smooth and my muscle strong and responsive to a three-dimensional world. This series represent some of the classics: time-tested, battle-worn approaches to keeping the body powerfully vital for as long as our years permit. Over the years, Iʼve used some, returned to others, modified many, and combined more. But I must pay homage to the methods which set me on the path to the blessings of abundant wellness, functional readiness for all tasks and a timeless physique which expresses it. In the 5 Classics, I present to you a five day week schedule of optimal health and fitness programming directly, unaltered and unmodified from the original traditional methods around the world.

Though you will definitely gain in your strength, muscle development and conditioning, their aim, deriving from martial art and movement modalities, provides you with pain-free, longevity-specific physical training for the human animal. I graph out how to perform the 5 Classics (and for those of you fortunate enough to participate in the special promotional launch offer, 2 bonus vintage Classics.)You wonʼt need to take a day off, because these were designed to give you greater energy and vitality. In fact, you can do them MORE than the protocol I give you; which amounts to the program minimum. Donʼt stop what youʼre doing. Perform these in the morning before breakfast, as they all take between 10-20 minutes maximum.