020. Nature Wants You to be Lean
Eliminate all junk food from your diet. Reduce amount of carbohydrate intake. Start regular practice of intense aerobic activities. Be persistent and results will come.
Excessive body fat is not healthy and certainly not natural. After all, it doesn’t look nice either. Too much junk food and lazy lifestyle are the main causes why many of us are overweight. While it may be easy to conclude what are the causes, elimination of junk food from the diet and regular physical activity may be a hard task for some of us. Establishing this as a lifelong habit may be even harder, but it will pay off for sure. Just don’t choose the “easy solutions” offered by modern chemistry, rather stay natty and stay healthy. So, regardless if you train for power, strength, speed or any other goal, the war against body fat will occur on two fronts: diet and physical activity. Each of these two fronts will consist of two smaller battles. Here they are:
- Elimination of all junk food.
- Reduction of food high in carbohydrates.
- Regular training for power, strength and speed.
- Incorporation of aerobic conditioning.
019. Nature Wants You to be Muscular
Train for power and you will be muscular for sure.
The main goal of Natty Power training program is development of a powerful body with the most natural apprtoach possible. Becoming powerful also brings many other physical improvements, like becoming stronger, faster, energized, etc. It will bring health improvements as well, like being more resistant to injuries, sleeping better, etc. Finally, there are positive side effects of Natty Power training method, which are purely aesthetical.
018. Nature Wants You to Have a Good Posture
If you walk, squat and lift heavy objects, your posture will be perfect.
Having a good posture and standing straight is natural, healthy and beautiful. Good posture projects power and dominance. Good posture is sexually attractive. Unfortunately, modern humans quite often suffer from numerous muscle weakness which can result in poor body posture and eventually, in permanent skeletal deformities. Strengthening weak muscles to prevent deformities is possible and probable, especially in adolescents and young adults. There are 3 common conditions that have direct influence on posture:
- Pes Planus: aka flat feet, caused by weak foot and calf muscles.
- Genu Valgum: aka knock knees, caused by weak leg and hip muscles.
- Thoracic Kyphosis: aka slouching, caused by weak back muscles.
017. Nature Wants You to Sleep Well
Good night sleep is irreplaceable. Go to bed early in the evening. Turn off all light and sound sources. Make sure your bed is hard and flat.
Muscles grow when you sleep, so it is essential to have enough of deep sleep at night. First of all, it is important to quickly fall into a deep sleep and stay uninterrupted in this first phase of sleep for at least 3-4 hours. Make your room dark. Open windows and let the fresh air in. Turn off all sounds that may wake you up. Go to bed early in the evening. Sleep for as long as you need and let your body decide when is enough. You can let the sunlight wake you up, that is natural. Sleeping longer then 8 hours is not necessary, but adapting to sleeping less has been proven to be healthy and sobering.
016. Nature Wants You to Drink Healthy
Clean water is the best. Plain and simple.
The healthiest liquid you can drink is water. All other drinking liquids contain water, but you still need to drink a pure water. Therefore, milk, coffee, tea, iced tea, fruit juices, lemonade, beer or any other beverage, can not replace drinking water. Always drink a lot of water, especially on training days and during summer. Some of the benefits are:
- Aids functioning of digestive system.
- Flushes waste and toxins throughout the body
- Boosts energy and athletic performance.
015. Nature Wants You to Eat Healthy
Eat only natural food. Eat only when you are hungry. Eat enough, but not too much.
Do you recall “Twin Peaks”, the famous early ‘90s series? There was a character who decided to change his life and among other things, he stopped smoking. He replaced a big Cuban cigar with vegetables, so from that moment he shows up chewing an orange carrot or a green celery rib. That is exactly what you should do: replace unhealthy habits with healthy ones. If you smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol, stop right now and eat healthy food instead.
014. Nature Don’t Want You to Use Supplements
Forget supplements, natural food is all you need.
If you eat a high quality food regularly and in sufficient amounts, any kind of supplementation is totally unnecessary. Steroids are harmful, but at least they really work. Supplements are less harmful, but they usually don’t work. In the year 2016, the American Medical Association summarized 20 years of scientific studies and found no benefits of supplementation, but unfortunately there was a huge amount of evidence of negative effects. Keep these facts in mind if you get an idea about buying supplements, they bring practically no benefits, just a bunch of negative side effects.
013. Nature Don’t Want You to Use Steroids
Forget steroids and stay natty!
First and foremost, Nature wants you to be natty and stay natty. Nature don’t want you to use steroids, roids, juice, gear or whatever is a current trendy slang. Also, their usage in sports (also known as doping) is forbidden by law. Beside steroids, there are many other performance enhancing drugs and the list is very long. Some of the most common drugs among athletes are:
- Anabolic androgenic steroids
- Testosterone replacement therapy and boosters
- Human growth hormone
- Insulin
- Diuretics
- Cocaine and other narcotics
Yes, chemical substances can make you big and strong in a very short time, but there are many negative aspects of their use and your health is way too precious to play such dangerous games with it.
012. Basics of Natty Power
What Nature expects?
Let’s lay down all the basic principles of training for Natty Power. Let’s see how Nature wants you to train for power and live your life in general. The truth is Nature wants you to build a powerful body, but also to eat well, sleep well, breathe well, avoid injuries and many other beneficial and useful habits for training and everyday life. Even if you decide not to train the Natty Power way, these basic principles will bring an ultimate well-being in your life, you will feel better and be healthier.