Adriana Harlan

The Paleo lifestyle is a great way to feel better. What you eat makes all the difference for how you feel — and how you perform when you work out or do everyday things like rake the leaves or clean the house. In these articles, you find some tips for amping up your Paleo diet smarts, for you and for your kids.

Unlike fad diets, Paleo is a lifestyle based on eating wholefoods and avoiding modern, processed, and refined foods. The diet is far from boring and repetitive; it focuses on eating a wide variety of meats, seafood, vegetables, fruits, healthy fats, nuts, and seeds, as well as nutrient-dense traditional foods such as organ meats, bone broths, and fermented foods.

Plainly, Paleo strength training is about making you strong(er). To get strong, lift heavy. You find out what heavy means shortly, but for now, just know that rarely is it anything pink or rubbery. Don’t let this intimidate you. Heavy lifting is by no means a dangerous endeavor — assuming you’re a healthy individual — unless you go about it unwisely.

You can gain strength, power, and aesthetics with Paleo fitness— vastly superior to that of 
the average individual indentured at the big-box gym — quickly, safely, and inexpensively through a choice selection of primal bodyweight exercises. Paleo fitness demands that you unplug, disconnect, and go low-tech to reap high yield.

You may have trouble convincing your kids to try some of the veggie side dishes that are common on a Paleo diet. Getting some kids to eat healthy can be a chore. Have you ever had a meal with a kid who examines his plate as if he were the lead investigator of a crime scene? Texture is important to kids, but so is presentation.

Primal superfoods that are part of the Paleo diet are multitaskers that heal the gut, decrease inflammation, and flood your cells with nutrients that are often lacking. In fact, superfoods help heal you on the deepest possible level, from the inside out, which is why many people turn to a Paleo lifestyle in the first place.

Traveling can be stressful, and that stress is compounded when you’re worried about what which Paleo treat you’re going to eat after you arrive. However, there are ways you can make your trip Paleo, or at least Paleo-ish. Packing these foods for your trip can make a big difference: Avocados Sugar- and addi

In the domain of pushes, there are two Paleo fitness categories. The first is a horizontal push, such as the push-up. It’s horizontal not because the push-up has you in a horizontal position but because if performed standing, the movement would be horizontal to the floor. The second is a vertical push, such as an overhead military press.

The purpose of the hinge is to move and produce force from the hips. This is a necessary life skill and Paleo exercise. Being able to move properly from the hips allows you to lift weight safely up off the ground without wrecking your back and maximizes your athletic abilities. The most basic, or primal, hinging pattern is the dead lift: a bending of the hips to reach down and pick something up.