For years I've watched and became a big fan of Animal/Wildlife Documentaries from the Planet Earth Series to Disney's Monkey Kingdom, Wild Alaska, Documentaries on Wolves and many others. It's fascinating how much our world is enriched with the vast species of animals, insects and the killer intelligence of the Orca. I sometimes ask myself "how could you not watch these and want to move like them?
For us humans, we can learn a lot from animals and although a trend of animal movements has hit big lately, it's been practiced for centuries or even longer where we mimic other species in different formats such as Kung Fu practitioners and hunters who learn how to stalk and kill a wild animal. Many people who practice the movements today give off more of a theme or a combination of freestyle moves mixed with gymnastics and the crawling patterns but for someone like me, I love keeping it simple and dig deep into the best possible ways as a human to move like an animal.
Last night, I just had an itch to play my animal dice game. After eating a few homemade tacos and watching Fast & Furious, I went out to the dungeon and just hammered out about 15 minutes of animal exercise and felt incredible. The surge of energy, the calming effects after the workout and the deep breathing was one of the best experiences. The ability to transform (in your imagination) into an animal on a whim is a powerful feeling and when you start crawling, jumping, side stepping and moving pretty damn fast, it goes beyond just cardio and building functional muscle.
No I don't howl at the moon or growl like a grizzly or roar like a big cat but just moving through various planes of motion and setting yourself in awkward positions makes your body in a way you're not used to. A lot of these movements are a staple in many sports conditioning programs, more notably in sports like football and wrestling. The game is just an idea but other aspects of an animal workout can turn someone into a lean, mean fighting machine and it brings out a whole other form of superhuman conditioning. Just the Bear Crawls alone can take down even the greatest athletes so imagine putting together a workout based on an entire kingdom of wildlife.
You can start at any point depending on your level of fitness and progress through various stages of movements. Treat it like a game, a way to have fun and play. The results are nothing short of incredible when you practice the art of moving like a wild animal.
I have no clue if I'll be doing it everyday for a while or when I get an itch but this type of training always seems to make me happy while staying really fit at the same time. Doesn't take up much time since most don't need more than 20 minutes but if you're really into it, you can go as long as you want.
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Hi Ben, how you doing buddy?
A good article, I've a buddy at MMA class who has started to also train in Kung Fu, and his instructor uses animal moves exercises in the lessons.
He said he felt muscles being worked that he didn't feel with lifting weights, and he's now doing these as part of his training and laying off the weights to see how things go.
I'm going to try some of these movements myself when I train with him.
One of the beta turds at the Asshole Mongo Men forum mocks your good self and your wife in a latest post, so I think a bit of return mockery is in order. This freak calls himself "Dr Failure" on that forum, so Dr Failure this is for you -
Question - what's the difference between a Cadillac and Dr Failures wife?
Answer - you can't get a blow job from a cadillac for 5 dollars!
Keep training dude, and gain strength from the weakness, inadequacy, and hatred of sad, fat, old weirdos on pathetic forums.
Beta, most of those guys are jilted stalkers.
Porkershit even went as far as calling up an official from the university one of Big Jim's sons attended just to get Big Jim's son in trouble.
When JeP, Newton, and Justice first started banning people I thought it was a rash decision...now over a decade later their decisions seem quite prudent. The Ass Munching Monkeys are stalkers, recording everything JeP says - they have become a little cult of stalkers.
At this stage in most of their lives they should be enjoying their families and friends but JeP is foremost on their minds on a daily basis. It's sick, twisted, and with Big Bruv involved...quite perverted.
I'm doing good man thank you for asking. Getting back into animal moves and Isometrics while taking a bit of time away from the deck and doing it periodically. That's really cool that a guy does that stuff in Kung Fu. At this point, those shit for brains can mock me all they want if that's their hearts desire, the more they talk, the more they won't need to say it to my face so they wouldn't get their asses handed to them. Mocking my wife however, says more about them than just giving me shit. Talk about abuse of the first amendment. Just hope they're glad their bones are stil in tact if you know what I'm saying.
Been practicing meditation more and breath work. Got a cool book called the Dharma of Star Wars. Once I'm done with it, I'll write a review. I'm very nerdy on that stuff but I love philosophy too.
Woowoostalker - well said buddy, their sewer of a forum would make very interesting reading to psychiatrists/psychologists. A psychologist who I know that works for local law enforcement believes they are showing clear signs of dangerous/ unhinged stalker type behaviour, and also some of them may have issues with their sexuality, maybe that is why Big Bruvs wife was screwing another guy when they lived in Spain.
To somebody who suffered severe bullying when younger, I will not stand by and see decent people like Ben ( and his wife ) subjected to bigotry and bullying on a pathetic, shitty forum of losers, which is what the Asshole Mongo Men certainly are.
My experiences in dealing with bullys as I became an adult and learned to fight back told me that the only way to deal with them is to give them a taste of their own medicine. And fighters of all styles i have trained with have told me the same.
Needless to say, I was able to avenge some of the bullying I received when young, when I happened to bump into the perpetrators when I was older. Let's just say they received more than a vocal punishment.
Imagine waking up like the Asshole Mongo Men do and then spending all day waiting to see what John Peterson puts on his forum and then all going on their little forum and mocking and bitching? Get a life you weirdos!
Yes, Peterson has been his own worst enemy at times, especially with the tall stories and constantly announced then postponed release dates of the belt and courses, but those freaks obsession with him ( and it seems anybody who associated with him ) goes beyond valid criticizm and enters into obsessive behavior/ mentally ill territory.
Also if they believe they are so superior physically to John Peterson and Ben ( and Greg Newton ) why don't they post photos and videos up for everyone to see?
Probably because a bucket of shit would be more aesthetic than anything those fat sickos could offer.😁
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