Animal Flow ®

Welcome to Animal Flow®

Animal Flow ® is an innovative new fitness program that combines quadrupedal and ground based movements with elements from various bodyweight-training disciplines to create a fun, challenging, multi-planar workout.

Animal Flow® can be utilised as a stand-alone workout or as a group training format, and can be integrated into existing fitness routines. Easily tailored to people from all fitness levels, gym-goers and athletes alike will realise significant benefits from the practice, including increased mobility, flexibility, stability, power, endurance, skill and neuromuscular communication.

Animal Flow includes a wide range of exercises and movement combinations that are grouped into six components, each designed to elicit specific results. 

Animal Flow’s six components have maximal functional translation to client performance at every level. 

 The components of Animal Flow

• Wrist Mobilisations include a range of simple exercises designed to increase the flexibility and strength of your wrists, which is particularly important for any practice where you are spending a lot of time on your hands.

• Activations are static holds performed to connect the body before the practice is commenced. Examples include:  Static Beast Hold, Static Crab Hold, Limb Lifts

• Form Specific Stretches are full body stretches that start in an animal form and then move through a wide range of motion. This increases your mobility and flexibility throughout the entire body. Examples include the Ape Reach, Beast Reach, Crab Reach and Scorpion Reach.

• Travelling Forms are exercises that mimic the movements of animals. You’ll start with the “ABCs” - Ape, Beast and Crab  as  a foundation and progress to more complex movements. The travelling forms are essentially the ways in which move like animals in order to improve the function of the human animal.

• Switches and Transitions are dynamic movements that are performed one after the other, creating the “flow” of Animal Flow. You can transfer from one form to another, or repeat the same one as a drill. Examples include the many variations for Underswitches, Side Kickthroughs, Front Kickthroughs, and Scorpions.

• Flow: Your Flow is where the real magic happens. You’ll combine the Animal Flow moves by linking them together in a fluid sequence, seamlessly transferring energy from one move to the next. Flows may be choreographed sequences practiced over multiple sessions, or may be created freestyle!