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🌀MOVEMENTS NOT MUSCLES🌀

Our bodies are wired since infancy to move

We have 7 gross movement patterns (gait, squat, hinge, push, pull, twist, lunge) our bodies are built for.

These 7 represent a baseline in terms of functional capacity

Every human being should be able to express these 7 in some capacity as an absolute minimum.

Further to these 7, there are several more deep (developmental) patterns embedded into us.

Mastery of these is pre-requisite to basically any other movement:

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Breathing
Supine
Global Flexion
Side Lying
Rolling
Prone
Global Extension
Quadruped
Tall Kneeling
1/2 Kneeling
Split Stance
Standing

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Re-claiming mastery of these fundamental patterns may mean taking a step back in the short term in order to take two steps forward in the long term.

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Unfortunately though, we are in a race driven culture obsessed with bigger, better, and faster all the time and that means we pay less attention to quality of movement in exchange for trying to get more reps, more weight, in less time ect

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Shift the focus of your training every so often (especially following a hard training block or completion) and spend a month dedicated to mastery of these most innate primal patterns.

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It can be treated as a deload or offseason, or “pre-Hab” block.

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Starting with breathe.

Breathing is the most important and fundamental movement pattern of all💨

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"If breathing cannot be normalised, no other movement can" - Pavel Kolar

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Spend some time during your warmup and cool down in the 90/90 position and work on proper 360 breathing mechanics. This will benefit literally everything else you do in the gym.

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Really though, these are patterns we should be practicing and challenging all the time to reverse the implications of our modernized lifestyles.

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