Chop wood, Crush stone, and swing a hammer. Ancient biology and testosterone.

Speaking as a man I can say that some of the typical practices that are associated with manhood and masculine actions, often hit the hammer right on the head. Sometimes literally. I have recently stumbled across an article that talks about a study that was conducted by the University of California, which states that the action of cutting wood was shone to increase the the people's testosterone 46.8%. Now it is to be noted that the group that was observed for this research was the Tsimane tribe an indigenous group in Bolivia. So there may be a a particular genetic factor that plays a part, but regardless 46.8% is damn high, the novice mathematician would just probably just round it up to 50. There is the obvious consideration from any fitness enthusiast, which would be of course its a compound movement. Like it is often seen in the rotation of articles out of workout magazines, we see a reemergence of the Deadlift Vs. Squat debate. Both are probably two of the most famous exercise in weight lifting, and for good reason. They are functional, they use your whole body, and they have been shone to also increase increase testosterone in there own respects. Now I myself have never seen data that states that either the deadlift or squat can increase one's testosterone even 30% I have often seen articles mentioning a percentage in the 20s for both, but neither seems to touch the movement of chopping wood. The question that popped into my head was "why?" When I squat heavy my whole body wonders what the hell is going on and why am I moving if there is such an imposing weight on me, and when I deadlift my body wonders why am I attempting to bring this many groceries in at once and am I now feeding multiple families for some reason. However when I chop wood I just look forward to chopping the next piece and I look forward to how it will feed the fire and warm the house. When I crush stone (it's literally the same movement in chopping wood) I think that this helps demo the house so I can maintain my families shelter.

It seems that not only the use of the movement makes a difference in the affect of the body's biology but that maybe the function of that movement also plays a big part. If you are providing warmth to your family maybe your body pulls from its own medicine cabinet an abundance of testosterone to help complete the task because warmth is important for you family's survival. I think our bodies in their ancient functioning can be both a creation of genius and function as efficiently as Simple Jack. Many of us store fat so affectively "Just in case" we end up in a prolonged period without food, when in today's day and age we can find a Big Mac a hop and a step away and reactivate our hunger with two glances of a baskin robbins advertisment on instagram. Our bodies are also amazing though, I mean practice anything mechanically with your body consistantly and your muscles learn it. You activate the movement of neurons enough and your brain doesn't even have to think about it. Our bodies heal themselves. Heat up when there is an infection so it can kill the virus or bateria. It is pretty amazing when you think about it. So it seems that an action of survival or at the very least that mirrors it is something that can work our bodies so well. Serving as not only a benefit to our situation, if you need more wood, but also a testament to the tool of efficiency that our body is. Moreover go out there chop some wood and crush some stone.