I can’t STAND for this anymore by Tony Riddle
I have had a few comments on how extreme I can be, specially after sawing my sofa in two at home and throwing it away. I always have to explain that it is my choice and just because I am different, this doesn't make me extreme.
You too might have a different opinion If you actually did your own research into the affects of seated posture and how detrimental it is to your movement system.
Imagine this scene:
The year is 3014 and you are at a seminar about mother natures amazing ability to heal and how Man potentially threatened their own existence.
You are in a completely clear glass room, yet can still take in the surrounding trees and beautifully natural scenery. You are able to absorb Vitamin D and smell nature, but yet protected from the harsher elements. There isn’t one chair in the room and all of the participants at the seminar are either kneeling, squatting, or striking thinking poses, it’s ground transition central.
The lecturer is presenting you with facts that Man became so obsessed by technological advances that they neglected their own complex design and threatened civilisation as we knew it..
He explains:
“There was once a time when humans were controlled and propaganda was rife. An uprising had occurred for returning us back to nature, but those involved were cast out for being too extreme. The organisation had threatened their world and the fear of loosing their comfort and their highly addictive food groups had created a huge emotional reaction. The organism had become weak and easily manipulated. They were addicted to a lifestyle that was creating sick victims and they were given false hope of magic cures.”
“Cancer was a very different disease back in 2014 and people didn’t understand that there was no cure as such. They piled money into charities, huge amounts of money, when all along those organisations knew that the only cure was prevention. They knew you had to return back to a natural lifestyle, start moving naturally, eating natural organic produce, sleeping correctly and have proper spiritual connection with our Mother.”
“Instead they carried on, compromising their organism, disrespecting themselves in a form of self hatred. Their most common form of surgery was the gastric band. The band was fitted so that they could keep eating their industrialised food groups. Some were so over weight that they had to use a form of transport to move 100m”.
The lecturer shoots a huge image of a chair into the sky with his 3d projector and the room gasps!
“ Yes this is a chair, along with the industrialised food groups these were the main culprits for of our demise”
“Today you can squat anywher and there are no chairs, but back then you didn’t even have an option, you had to sit. Even when studies showed how detrimental seated posture was to the health of the organism, you still didn’t get a choice. There wasn’t even an area to squat in! Before they took smoking out of restaurants you had an option to be on the smoking side or the non smoking side, but when sitting was compared to be the new smoking in terms of health issues. They still had no option, but to sit and frowned upon If you were to squat.”
“We had taken away all of what we are capable of today, the chair was creating a stagnant race. Our ankles, knees, lower backs and our posture were all affected by this beast. We had literally become sitting targets and it was of little wonder why we had become so threatened as a species. We had done to ourselves what no other species would have dreamed of doing. We had fed ourselves fake indigestible food groups that were unrecognisable by natures design and then taken away our amazing and unique ability to mimic movements of mother natures animals. Loosing site that no other animal can impersonate another the way we can.”
“We can become the Duck, the cheater, the lizard, the fish. A fish can only be a fish, a cat a cat, a lizard a lizard. Instead they would sit in a chair that had no overlapping advantages into any of our natural movement patterns.”
“Yes this is hard to believe my children, but it is true. We now take for granted our great movement equality, but believe me; most couldn’t even walk or run correctly and had to be coached in how to move and eat”
“When they finally invaded we didn’t stand much chance, with the inability to move or defend ourselves and the lack of basic survival skills we were sitting ducks.”
“Our only saviour was that small minority that hadn’t fallen for the Bull Shit and had chosen to move and eat how nature had intended. The very people that our anscestors had cast out for being extremist would come to our rescue. They were once looked at as if they were crazy for playing out in nature, whilst the other kids were locked in their cage like bedrooms, disconnected from one another. These uncompromised 'WARRIORS" were preparing themselves for an event such as this. You see they knew, if you take away mans ability to defend himself, or move then they are weak and vulnerable, this is how you bread a nation of worriers."
"It had taken us a long time for us to make the change, but once the big ego's finally put their hands up admitted they were wrong it was a inevitable that the change had to occur. We soon realised that we had become both the slave and the slave master. The New Nature Order hadn't wanted us to revert right back to hunter gatherer roots and forget all about the things we had been successful with, they just wanted to drop all the things that were draining our planet, both spiritually and weakening our our defences. They had given us the true meaning of a "SELF DEFENCE" and that is when it dawned on us, that the "Creating Warriors not Worrier" approach wasn't about creating an attacking army".
"If anything, we have learnt that it is O.K to make technological advances, but we must maintain our connection with nature. Nature really does have the answers. We are smart, but only when we are nature smart"!
Tony Riddle A.K.A @theprepdoctor
Wednesday 26 March 2014
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Ten Preparations To Have A Good Day by Tony Riddle A.K.A @theprepdoctor
By Gloves Club Founder Tony Riddle
What is it with this fear of time - why are you in such a rush?
I see it "time and time again" on my commute into London from my home in Windsor. People speed walking to the station with no time to spare. Queuing for the ticket machine and pacing up and down like they are just about to butcher a kindergarten! When arriving at Paddington station, the panic is heightened as the Chronophobes have lost all self control and their perception of another being has been demonised.
Pushing and shoving to get down the escalator in order to join the wave of zoo-mmuters for the next zoo-mmuters still fight tooth and nail to cram onto the first tube that arrives.
In theory they could be on the next tube, and would have a more pleasant environment to exist in. But no, they'd much prefer the armpit or breath of their new inmate all over them. Then again, if they didn't have that armpit or that breath on them, what else would they have to complain about to their fellow inmates when first arriving at the office?
The whole ordeal is enough to give anyone adrenal fatigue. What a ridiculous way to start your day. What do you think the effects of this are having on you? What is it you are trying to achieve? A huge over stimulation of that sympathetic nervous system, that's what. You can forget about your digestive system, your hormonal system and immune system for a while. They will be on lock down to support your plight! Prep yourself before you wreck yourself.
Here's ten preps you should consider to take the lion's roar out of your commute:
1) Prepare for the next day Have everything you need ready to go. Not enough time for breakfast in the morning? Then boil some eggs and pack some fruits and nuts the night before. The better the night prep, the better the sleep. You won't be preparing for your day whilst trying to clock up the zzz'ds. Giving you some good old fashioned dream time!
2) Switch the lights down low and turn off the artificial suns (TV's, laptops, iPads) in the house by 10pm. This will aid rest and digest, switch them off and you'll switch off too!
3) Get to sleep on the best side of 11pm Use a rest and digest breathing technique if you feel that this is too early for you. Rather than counting sheep, count breath: 4 seconds in, 2 seconds hold and 6 seconds out. Before you know it, you'll feel the wave of what has been artificiality stimulated pass and the wave of relaxation will be upon you.
4) Wake 20 minutes earlier than your previous ridiculous commute. Choose an alarm clock that wakes you up gradually with increasing light. The light cues your body to set a healthy sleep cycle, get up and to feel alert, refreshed with more energy.
5) When showering consider hydrotherapy and gradually adjust hot to cold showers. For many, a drastic change in temperature would be too much of a stressor. I would recommend turning the water to cold for the last 30 seconds to a minute of your shower. If it's good enough for Vincenz Priessnitz it's good enough for me. Benefits included: strengthened immunity, improved blood circulation, regulated temperature, promotes weight loss/increases metabolism, alleviates depression, improves lymphatic movement, deepens breathing, keeps skin and hair healthy, increases energy, well being and increases hormone production.
6) Take a parasympathetic walk to the station (stroll) You now have 20 minutes more, relax and take in your surroundings. Say good morning to your fellow commuters and enjoy!
7) Avoid sitting down Sitting is so last year and is considered as unhealthy as smoking. The majority of us are obsessed by weight loss, but can't wait to sit down at the closest opportunity. Instead, choose to stand mindfully with your bodyweight evenly planted on the planter surface of your foot. There really are so many other options than sitting. Don't be lazy, get off your butt and use the whole commute as a part of your gym routine.
8) Avoid the paper Fear, doom, gloom and decay! You have a choice; read something positive, motivational, educational, learn a new language...All of the above, minus the paper of fear, doom, gloom and decay, will have a positive affect on your journey, not just your commute but your whole journey through time!
9) Use your tube experience as a training programme If you're capable, choose the stairs not the escalator. When on the platform stand and calmly breath whilst waiting for the tube. If the tube is rammed like a can of sardines, avoid looking it and wait for the next one. 2 minutes wont kill you but the sardines might!
When on the tube, smile, smile, smile and smile more. Smiling is contagious and will have a positive ripple. Stand on the tube, focusing on your bodyweight weight on your base of support and try to avoid holding on; forget the nonsense power plate. You can't beat a bit of tube surfing.
If you have space, try a bit of hanging: grip the bar above you, like you want to break it in your hands, lift your feet off the ground and hang on it. If you succeed in this, try and hang on whilst the train is moving and once it halts place your feet back on the ground. You can then mix this up - stand and surf in motion and hang in rest. Please don't worry what people think. Go with the mentality that they are the crazy ones, not you. "I'm not crazy, I'm just not you "
10) Share, share and share alike Tell as many of your fellow inmates about the positive effect that this is having on you and they too will "have a good day"!
Please don't worry what people think. Go with the mentality, that they are the crazy ones, not you.
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