Introduction to Animal Flow®: The newest bodyweight movement system - Sydney Course

Animal Flow® is a ground-based, bodyweight movement system designed to improve a range of skills including speed, power, endurance, flexibility, mobility, and stability — the idea being that you can tailor your routine to suit your goals. Animal Flow® is a low impact, total body exercise program that uses movement patterns which combines crawling, rolling, jumping, rotating and crouching to work various muscle groups and explore multiple planes of movement at the same time.

By reconnecting to your body through movement training, Animal Flow® will help you gain a better understanding of your body while enjoying increased mobility, flexibility, stability, power, endurance, skill and neuromuscular communication.

This new style of training/moving is based on and helps improve natural development of basics human functionality. It is basically playtime for adults!

Macquarie Community College operates from a range of venues across Northern and Western Sydney. We have campuses in Blacktown, Carlingford, Chatswood, Epping, Mt Druitt, Richmond, and Ryde. Enrol now!

Course Outline

Each session you will: 

• Perform wrist mobilisations
• Play some fun warm up activation and travelling games
• Watch the flow to both sides
• Learn 3-5 movements
• Build the flow
• Perform the flow to both sides

Course Outcome

By the end of the course you will have an understanding of the six components on Animal Flow®:

1. Wrist mobilisation - simple moves to strengthen and improve wrist mobility, to prepare the wrists for the time we spend on our hands in this type of practice.
2. Activations - static holds used to activate our bodies via the ground contact with our hands and feet. Eg Static Beast, Static Crab.
3. Form specific stretches - starting in an animal form you will move through your full range of motion across various joints, to increase mobility and flexibility. E.g. Ape Reach, Beast Reach, Crab Reach and Scorpion Reach.
4. Travelling forms - learn the ABC's of Ape, Beast and Crab. Travelling forms are full body strength and conditioning moves that get you across the floor.
5. Switches and Transitions - the breakdancing feel! This is where we learn to transition from one move to the other creating that seamless flow feel.
6. Flow sequences - where your imagination and creativity become endless depending on what your goal is. Here is where we put all of the above together and you can create a seamless movement sequence to challenge the whole body and mind.

What to Bring

• Comfortable exercise attire which stretches with your movements
• A bottle of water
• A small towel for sweat

Prerequisite:

• Ability to walk and stand alone
• Open mind to learn and desire to engage in physical activities and exercises
• Medical clearance from your physician if you have health conditions

Important Information

• Students sign a medical/ information form at the first class.
• If you are new to exercise or have a pre-existing condition, please seek information from their GP before participating.

Delivery Mode

• We offer training in face to face and/or online learning formats.
• To check the delivery mode of the course you are interested in please view the class timetable.

Classroom based: experienced and engaging trainers will take you through the course material face to face.

Classroom based learning for this course includes:

• Scheduled class times and sessions
• Interaction with your trainer and other students

Remote learning: experienced and engaging trainers will take you through the course material via interactive livestream video classes online.

Remote learning for this course includes:

• Scheduled class times and sessions
• Livestream video classes online
• Interaction with your trainer and other students during livestream video sessions

Please note: You will need access to the internet and a smartphone, tablet, computer or laptop in order to participate in the livestream video classes.

Macquarie Community College operates from a range of venues across Northern and Western Sydney. We have campuses in Blacktown, Carlingford, Chatswood, Epping, Mt Druitt, Richmond, and Ryde. Enrol now!