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Top 5 reasons to try Animal Flow 

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It’s new, it’s exciting and it’s spreading around the world as one of the newest fitness trends. 

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Here are some top 5 reasons why you should try an Animal Flow class and why it’s soooo good.

Animal Flow can be used for a variety of training purposes. It can accompany your normal training as part of a warm up, or as a stand-alone training method. Let’s dive into the top 5 reasons to try it today. 

1. Mobility & Flexibility

A major benefit of practicing Animal Flow is the gain and increase of flexibility and mobility. People often think static stretching is the only way to improve muscular flexibility and range of movement about a joint. With Animal flow, you are consistently practicing dynamic moving, in and out of controlled full ranges of movements and teasing out your strength and flexibility at the same time. 

2. Trunk Stability

Forget sit-ups and crunches – Animal flow consistency uses the ‘core’ trunk muscles to maintain stability and control through every movement of the training session. You will be reminded often about the key points of your posture and how to get the best out of your core for the best and safest workout.

The core muscles encompass the abdominal muscles, pelvic floor, hip flexors and spinal muscles. 

3. Endurance

With a few different ways of training Animal Flow, your muscular endurance can be boosted to improve your overall physical capacity. The flow side of the class will employ various Animal Flow movements and transition from each with particular techniques. This flow is a fantastic way to prevent fatigue in one posture but keep going by moving into a different posture and movement. Interval training can also be practiced by using a few movements individually and training them for time for a few rounds. 

4. Fun

Training is often hard we’ll all agree, but Animal Flow is fun. With no equipment to faff around with you can enjoy just seeing what your body can do, how it adapts and learns the challenges. It’s great fun too to share the experience with a group of class mates.

5. Strength

Moving yourself around the floor with style takes calisthenics to a new level. Moving your own body will build real strength. I love lifting weights, but you should always be able to manage moving yourself too. 

NEW Animal Flow Classes. 

I can run small group training in Limerick as well as one-to-one exploration sessions. Get in touch to start your own Animal Flow.

Jamie

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Ground Based Movement

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Ground-based movements mimic the moves that first strengthened our muscles and skeletal systems for walking, running and performing all the functions of a healthy human. It helps to think of it as reconnecting with our original strength and purpose. Back when we were all young children, we were experts at ground based movement. Growing up into relatively sedentary adults robbed us of that original strength.

These movements utilise certain patterns that hold benefits we have long forgotten, since we rarely spend much time moving on the ground.

In short, everything we are meant to be able to do get worked during ground based practice.

Think getting down to the floor and back up, core trunk stability, spinal control, wrist, arm, shoulder and hip strength and endurance and yes, plenty of fun too.

Animal Flow is not yet well known in Ireland but where I learned the system in Australia, it is huge. All around Asia and Japan, Animal Flow is well known and understood for its benefits.

Check out this other article where I outline 5 top reasons to try out Animal Flow.

If you are keen now to try out some ground based movement, get in touch and let’s get you moving.

Jamie

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Hello Limerick

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It’s crazy to think that I started my personal training aspirations in 1997 in Belfast. I kind of thought it would be something I would ‘do’ until I got a grown up job. “Haha”, doesn’t perspective change and evolve.

The business of Personal Training is now a very grown up job. Planning, strategies, ongoing study and very effective programming is now part of the day to day running of training people.

I will be providing personal training, shared PT and group training from Animal Flow, Kettlebell classes and a Restoration class.

PERSONAL TRAINING will focus on helping people move better and stronger. Whether you’re starting out or more advanced, stronger is stronger. The tools and movement choices may vary, but the goals are to remain the goal.

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Don’t hesitate to reach out with the contact information below, or send a message using the form.

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FitStrong is on the Move

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It’s been very quiet on the blog post sharing front over the past few months and for a very good reason.

We’ve been planning our relocation to Ireland. Yes, we’re moving from sunny Brisbane to the cheery city of Limerick in the south of Ireland. So much planning and organising behind closed doors until now, when I tell you all about this development.

I will be continuing to share and teach about moving strong. I will get back to releasing new online programs with an app based platform and I will be rebranding as MoveStrong when I start to work in the awesome TBB in Limerick.

In particular I will be focusing on helping people with their personal transformation with my Amazing 12 Limerick. In addition I will be reaching out the older population to create a new wave of Super Seniors much like I have here in Brisbane.

If you want to reach out and talk more, please do get back to me.

Jamie

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Building Real World Agility and Strength 

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Being able to negotiate the world around us shouldn’t be taken for granted, despite living in an apparently safe, manufactured world scape. 

Having the skills and aptitude to jump over something or out the way of something, skip, catch yourself if you trip, balance over partially submerged kerbstone during a rain storm – are all just a few examples of physical aptitudes we may encounter. 

More to the point, my point here, it is incredibly rewarding, fun and a bit challenging to train for just such events, whether they are made up scenarios or practice for actual routine events. 

I like to take myself off into the bush every now and again. Weekly if I can. Far from a walk in a park, a bush walk can throw an abundance of physical challenges apart from just walking. 

Often times there’s a short climb up a rock face, a balance walk over a log laid over a creek, slippy trip hazard tree roots popping up when least expected. 

Now, even if you never take yourself off on a bush walk, moving your body the way it is designed IS a daily or at least a weekly preoccupation. Got kids? Grandkids? A garden? 

All these have a side of physicality that you can prepare yourself for. Is it not better to be prepared rather than at the mercy of inability? 

Here’s just a short video example of:

  • balance
  • practicing landing after a jump or a trip
  • crawling for when you have to get down low

Just three activities to demonstrate how real world agility and strength can be really quite different to most gym exercises. 

Got questions? Fancy trying a natural movement training session? 

Sure, get in touch – I won’t bite 🙂 

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