Have you heard of Animal Movement/Primal Movement/Natural Movement?
It's a branch of kinesiology influencing and taking elements from acrobatics, gynmastics, calisthenics, parkour, martial arts (particularly Capoeira) and contemporary dance, which consists of studying and imitating the movement of animals, especially other primates, or more generally of restoring the full range of human mobility.
Some people consider that modern urban life has restricted our innate ability to move in many dimensions such as climbing, crawling, jumping, rolling, hanging etc, leaving us weak and inflexible. Some recognise the functional benefits of extending our repertoire of movement patterns. Others simply find facination and beauty in the natural world, and use that inspiration as part of their artistic expression through movement. Still others realise that walking like a lobster is bloody hard, and use such exercises as a way to develop strength and agility.
Today we will test all this out!
This video is a bit longer than I intended for these challenges, but the exercises are not in a special order, so you can do them in several goes, or just do a few of them. I chose it as it seems like most of us would have a good chance of being able to do most of them - if you're interested, Youtube carries many examples of more exotic feats - just search any of the terms at the top of this post. I've included a second video below that shows a fully animal-themed workout, so if you have time, you can try that too.
Natural movement sequence (20min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2rkeOv0xz0
Animal movement sequence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14BjRxE7f1o
Ido Portal is a name that I came across often while looking for a video for today, so there's a starting point if you want to research current movement theories and training systems.
Please report back, and if you try the animal walks, include video evidence!
Healthy Life Challenge: Mobility Day 3
Have you heard of Animal Movement/Primal Movement/Natural Movement?
It's a branch of kinesiology influencing and taking elements from acrobatics, gynmastics, calisthenics, parkour, martial arts (particularly Capoeira) and contemporary dance, which consists of studying and imitating the movement of animals, especially other primates, or more generally of restoring the full range of human mobility.
Some people consider that modern urban life has restricted our innate ability to move in many dimensions such as climbing, crawling, jumping, rolling, hanging etc, leaving us weak and inflexible. Some recognise the functional benefits of extending our repertoire of movement patterns. Others simply find facination and beauty in the natural world, and use that inspiration as part of their artistic expression through movement. Still others realise that walking like a lobster is bloody hard, and use such exercises as a way to develop strength and agility.
Today we will test all this out!
This video is a bit longer than I intended for these challenges, but the exercises are not in a special order, so you can do them in several goes, or just do a few of them. I chose it as it seems like most of us would have a good chance of being able to do most of them - if you're interested, Youtube carries many examples of more exotic feats - just search any of the terms at the top of this post. I've included a second video below that shows a fully animal-themed workout, so if you have time, you can try that too.
Natural movement sequence (20min):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2rkeOv0xz0
Animal movement sequence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14BjRxE7f1o
Ido Portal is a name that I came across often while looking for a video for today, so there's a starting point if you want to research current movement theories and training systems.
Please report back, and if you try the animal walks, include video evidence!