The calisthenics exercises that follow are intended to provide a balanced and extremely efficient exercise program, working your entire body for added conditioning in just minutes a day to complement your walking and other life activities.
The word calisthenics comes from the Greek words 'kallos' for beauty and 'thenos' for strength. Calisthenics are an old, simple, flexible, and very effective form of human exercise. As you will learn in practice, calisthenics do indeed bring us both beauty and strength, and greatly enhance our physical fitness and personal stamina.
There are a total of seventeen exercises in the HumanaNatura calisthenics program, divided into three groups:
Core exercises - eight Core exercises provide a basic workout of our body and are meant to be performed on a daily basis, both by people just beginning to exercise and by people following our calisthenics program at the intermediate and advanced levels.
Intermediate exercises - as your physical conditioning improves, you can add some or all of five Intermediate exercises to the Core program on any given day.
Advanced exercises - with further improvement in your level of fitness, you can add some or all of four Advanced exercises to the Core program on any given day.
Once you become conditioned to the intensity of the calisthenics exercises – and they are extremely intense and challenging at first for most people – the Core program will take 10 minutes to perform each day. The full Advanced routine of seventeen exercises takes about 30 minutes, again depending on your level of fitness and familiarity with the exercises.
Please keep in mind that it is not necessary to do the full Advanced routine every day, but you should at least do the Core workout daily whenever possible, with the exception of planned days of rest.
Through daily calisthenics, you may begin to see new opportunities for a more integrated view of your life and health enhancement activities. Achieving this understanding of how our daily activity patterns can form an integrated expression of our natural health forms an important milestone in the HumanaNatura program.
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