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Strength & Conditioning: Darryl Edwards, Week 2

The PRIMAL PLAY methodology inspires you to make activity truly fun while getting incredibly healthier, fitter, and stronger in the process.

Darryl Edwards

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The “Paleo Fitness and Primal Play” program is written by featured coach Darryl Edwards. He is the founder of Fitness Explorer Training and Nutrition and the author of Paleo Fitness: Primal Training and Nutrition to Get Lean, Strong, and Healthy.

Darryl moved into fitness after almost two decades as a computer scientist working in investment banking. Darryl transformed his declining health by adopting an ancestral model of fitness that he now brings to the world from his London, England base.

The Paleo Fitness and Primal Play program is a four-week program designed to increase both your activity level and your sense of fun and enjoyment of life. The program consists of four distinct days of training each week: Movement Monday, Tabata Tuesday, Fun Friday, and Strength Saturday.

There are a variety of movements in this four-week program, with some variants to trusty favorites as well as exercises you may not be familiar with. Most of the exercises in this program are to be performed outdoors. There are advantages to being active outdoors in all seasons.

Paleo Fitness and Primal Play Program, Week 2

Movement Monday

Transition and flow between movements, aim to move as quietly as possible and rest as required.

Using the bench jump as an example, beginners 5 jumps, intermediates 10 jumps and advanced 15 jumps. With a total playout time of 20, 30 or 40 minutes depending on level (beginner, intermediate, advanced).

Tabata Tuesday

Tabata protocol (maximum intensity for 20 seconds, rest for 10 seconds)

Beginner: X = 2

Intermediate: X = 4

Advanced: X = 8

For example: as a beginner you would perform the first exercise for 20 seconds, then rest for 10 seconds. Repeat this exercise again and rest for 10 seconds, then proceed to the next exercise.

Fun Friday

Plank Tennis

Play tag with 1 or more people

Strength Saturday

Piggy Back and Fireman Carry

  • Beginner: 25m
  • Intermediate: 50m
  • Advanced: 100m
Darryl Edwards

About Darryl Edwards

Darryl Edwards, founder of Fitness Explorer Training & Nutrition based in London, England is a blogger, international speaker, and author of Paleo Fitness: Primal Training and Nutrition to Get Lean, Strong, and Healthy.

He is recognized as the leading exponent of the Paleo lifestyle in the United Kingdom, including features in Men’s Health, Women’s Fitness, Top Santé, Elle, Health & Fitness, The Daily Express, and on BBC London radio.

After almost two decades working in investment banking as a computer scientist and increasingly suffering from illness, Darryl transformed his health after adopting an ancestral model to wellbeing by referencing our hunter-gatherer past. Instead of solving computer algorithms, he set about helping to tackle some of the problems that beset many individuals wanting to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle amidst the global epidemic of obesity, diabetes, and other chronic lifestyle diseases.

As part of this mission, Darryl developed the PRIMAL PLAY methodology to inspire others to make activity truly fun while getting incredibly healthier, fitter and stronger in the process.

Darryl now devotes his time to helping others improve their ability to perform everyday, recreational and extraordinary tasks by eating and moving the way nature intended.

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