Creating Chaos - For Fitness & Sport Professionals

Wednesday 11th May saw a significant occassion with Primal Flow gracing the capital for the first time. Invited to present at the REPS South convention held at David Lloyds Raynes Park in Wimbledon, a number of the Team Chaos master coaches fled to London ready to challenge 50 fitness professionals with 2 Primal Flows.

The reception was very welcoming with an instant thumbs up from the London constituents of the industry.

One of the big ingredients of Primal Flow is function, whilst this term has been widely used for at least a decade in exercise, it's intepretation has evolved and we still continue to learn. So what is the Primal Flow take on functional exercise. For those that have explored function, movements that are based upon daily activities, typically compound patterns that are multi-planar would be a fair definition. This ethos is very much employed by PF but the flow goes further than this. It's all very well recreating similar patterns to those of daily activities but the entire industry is guilty of then resuming a normal exercise format of reps and sets with this newly found functional movement. Think about it, does daily life involve repeating each movement several times before having a short break and then repeating the entire process. It's in no way functional to approach exercise in this way. Is it not the ability of the body to adapt to change that is functional? Change in both internal and external forces, change in environment and all the variable components that are demanded upon the body. It is indeed the adaptability of the body that illicits function and surely this should be applied to exercise for it to be termed functional.

Would it not be more functional to condition the body through sequences of movement? Daily life rarely occurs in straight lines, there is indeed rarely the opportunity to perform movement with perfect precision and technique. Watch any competitive field sport and you'll constantly see movement that from an exercise perspective may be described as awkward or biomechanically unsound, yet it is these exposures that develop the robustness of the body, the function of the body. This is exactly what primal flow achieves.