Animal crawling patterns are movement exercises inspired by the way animals move—designed to improve strength, mobility, coordination, and body awareness. They’re not just fun—they’re functional, helping restore natural movement and build athleticism.
The world around us is designed for two legs only. We don't have to move around obstacles or climb (if we don’t want to); we created an artificial environment that contradicts our animalistic features and how we’ve been designed anatomically - shoulder blades that are suitable for climbing trees, joints designed to squat, lunge, push, pull, twist or bend, or long arms and legs with curved fingers that allow us to grab or hold onto something. That’s why with age, our joint and tissue health decline. We find it more difficult to perform simple duties such as getting up from supine or seated positions or lowering down from standing.
When we are on All 4’s it gives us a great sense of relief and advantage of balancing upper and lower trunks together. These movements are biologically hardwired into us, but modern sedentary lifestyles often dull them. When we use upper or lower body separately, we are either weakening the shoulder or pelvic girdle that are both necessary for our locomotion, mobility and day to day functions. Animal crawling patterns create a great balance and improves our strength equally.
WHAT WE WILL COVER:
- What is Animal Locomotion?
- Why do we train crawling patterns?
- Mobility supporting Animal Locomotion - Let’s practice
- Crawling Patterns - Let’s practice:
- Gorilla
- Spicy Gorilla
- Contralateral Gorilla
- Chimpanzee
- Spinning Monkey
- Lion
- Panther
- Komodo Dragon
- Cobra Roll
- Galloping Chimpanzee
- Bull Frog
- Crab Walk
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