When you have a certain amount of knowledge about exercise and fitness along with the understanding of what works and what is useful, you have the ability to train anywhere you want and not be restricted to a building full of people who can be nasty as hell (verbally and physically). Stationary movements are basically exercises where you're in the same spot working on something and not going anywhere else. If it's just bodyweight, you can switch from one exercise to the next in the blink of an eye.
It's great to do pushups, deadlifts, squats, curls, weights, bodyweight, machines and suspension training; they're all great in their own way and should be used for the goals people want to achieve and/or maintain throughout their lives, however; there's more to training than just staying in one spot. There's freedom in moving from one thing to another but the true freedom is being able to harness the body's capabilities beyond the stationary aspect of fitness.
The majority of fitness is training in a single spot on the floor or only a stupid short amount of space. Now with Animal Movement training or Primal style training, you have the freedom to move wherever you want, however you want. This is where you are truly open to using your imagination and not be confined to a such a short amount of space that you can't crawl, jump forward or backwards, sideways and under a magic carpet ride. It's about letting go of the caged up mentality. Do stationary movements have their place, of course they do, they're another aspect of training. It's not the full picture though.
Animal Exercises are a form of expression. Yes it's true we can't move 100% exactly like wild animals but as a human, we have the creativity to express ourselves in a different format than typical conventional training. We can crawl, jump, kick, punch, roll, lift, carry, hell we're practically a Wonkavator where we can go up, down, sideways, longways, shortways, bend, twist, go east, west, north, south and everything else in between. Indigenous tribes don't necessarily work out in the sense of recreation but when they hunt or go out to find food, they climb, crawl through the jungle, run, walk, utilize their body's abilities to take down trees, carve boats, fish with nothing more than a stick and string. They're expressing their bodies the way nature intended in order to survive. Fitness is just a recreational version of expressing our human nature and Animal Type Movements is to me the pinnacle of that.
Some will look at Animal Movements as silly and "make believe" and that humans were only meant to stand up right and crawling and all that stuff is meant for babies in development. It is a huge part of our evolution to be upright and to lift, carry and be able to orchestrate movements based on human evolution but mimicking animals to a small degree is part of that as well. We've studied animals for countless millennia even when we didn't realize it and we partake in how we can move utilizing what we can do. Although Animal Movements can be considered a "gimmick" form of exercise, it's the freedom of expression that gets to the heart of it.
Is it natural to move like an animal in the wild? Well, you are using your own body as resistance and it's not alien like formalities so you tell me. It's just different, that's all it is when you break it down. It's using the mind and body's ability to express a near exaggerated format of what we as humans are capable of doing. Some of the most basic movements can be done by just about anybody if you're in good health. The more advanced stuff is for the "crazy ones" which is a much lower percentage of people capable of doing. Even basic movements are still freedom of expression and be able to showcase your abilities to train in just about any length of space.
So, when you practice your training, realize there's more to it than just being in a single spot. Utilize both to really become universal in your fitness journey. Your goals are yours and what you do to get better is what you're willing to do whether through Primal Movements or stationary, they're more valuable than we have been led to believe. Be strong, be wild and be amazingly awesome.
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