Following our theme on the #humanlongevityproject
We introduce you to Darryl Edwards from Primal Play.
So Darryl, what’s the most popular exercise?
“The most popular day to exercise is ‘tomorrow’.
Let’s face it exercise can be perceived as boring, it can be difficult to motivate ourselves when we are competing with an environment that encourages us to be sedentary.
We know the health benefits, we know we would feel better afterwards, but why can it feel so awful even thinking about exercise.
Let alone doing it?
This was a puzzle I have tried to solve, and I sincerely believe that Primal Play is one solution that might just get us there.”
Darryl Edwards developed the PRIMAL PLAY™ methodology to inspire children and adults to make activity fun while getting healthier, fitter and stronger in the process.
Primal Play is many things. It’s a feeling about how we live our lives. It’s a way of orienting yourself in the world. It’s a super creative and always evolving exercise and movement program. It’s a social and community creating experience. It’s a way of rediscovering something deep and essential and exhilarating about ourselves as human beings. And it’s Darryl Edward’s life passion.
That’s a lot. And the coolest thing about all of it? It’s all FUN.
Everything about Primal Play from the interesting, even outlandish movements (carry your friend, anyone?), to the academic theory, the people involved in it, and the many health benefits you get from doing it all centres around this powerful idea that humans benefit most from activities that are pure, raw, all-out, rewarding fun.
When we have fun we get the same endorphin kick people get from long endurance exercise, except we get that kick instantly, constantly, and much more intensely. When we have fun it feeds our brains and our emotions. When we play we kick our minds into imagination mode, and we tap into that powerful charge we get from positive experiences with other happy people.
Primal Play movement gives us the benefits of functional fitness training, but doesn’t stop there. It takes us beyond exercise. It takes us into fun.
What other health program can say that?
“Play keeps us vital and alive. It gives us an enthusiasm for life that is irreplaceable. Without it, life doesn’t taste good.”
— Lucia Capocchione
WHAT IS “PRIMAL”?
There is a strong push in the health community to learn more about our basic internal programming, to discover exactly what we are designed to be by our DNA.
One way of finding answers about our design is to look back to how we lived in other times, before civilization came along. To search for our more “primal” ways of living, and perhaps find some answers there.
We do this most easily by studying people who never have created cities or civilizations. We look at the tribes that still exist that never changed from how all humans lived thousands of years ago.
The primal world is much more complex and interesting that the simple ways we think of it. Primal people danced, celebrated, competed, hunted, walked, dealt with nature and played. In incredibly creative and fascinating ways.
You can still see of our human past in what we do today. Music, drumming, hiking, camping, fishing, swimming, gardening, sports, laughter, even dancing in dance clubs, all tap into the primal part of us.
And that’s because we all still carry with us our original primal programming. Tapping into those basic human directives gives us benefits we can’t even begin to understand yet. But if you do it right, if you find your connection to the world and your body in the world, you know it. You feel it in your bones.
Because it’s fun!
Darryl Edwards (a.k.a. The Fitness Explorer) is a movement therapist, paleo nutritionist, blogger and published author of “Paleo Fitness” from London, England. He speaks about his experiences with a primal lifestyle that has made him fitter and healthier in his forties than ever before.
Darryl is a contributor to Paleo Magazine and has been a presenter at various symposiums such as Paleo:f(x), PrimalCon, AHS (Ancestral Health Symposium) and other events globally introducing the world to ‘Primal Play’. More information about Darryl can be found by visiting his website: www.thefitnessexplorer.com
Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/lowcarbdownunder
Video: https://www.youtube.com/user/lowcarbdownunder
