{"id":43238,"date":"2018-08-17T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/uncategorized\/animal-athletics-ground-based-training\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T03:00:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T01:00:52","slug":"animal-athletics-ground-based-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evofitness.at\/en\/blog\/discover\/animal-athletics-ground-based-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Athletics – Ground-Based Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever noticed how almost always your workout takes place in a standing position? EVO expert Bardo Tschapke<\/a><\/span> will guide us in ground-based training<\/strong>, also known as animal athletics.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How does human movement evolve?
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The motor-driven development takes place in a chronologically sequence (neuromusculoskeletal developmental sequence). From lifting the head up in a prone position<\/strong>, which occurs around the time we are 1 or 2 months old, up until the time we are able to roll from a supine into a prone position<\/strong>, around 6 to 8 month old.<\/p>\n

It takes approximately 18 months until a human is able to walk<\/strong> – starting from bottom near movements (rolling, leaning, creeping, crawling) to more or less reliable and controlled upright movement. The human body needs this time to mature its nervous, muscular- and skeleton systems.<\/strong> It is a much longer time as for most of the other mammals.<\/p>\n

What is ground-based training or animal athletics?<\/h2>\n

In animal athletics, we go back to the time when we were children<\/a><\/span> and when we learned our motor-driven and neurologic patterns, the fundamental movement patterns.<\/strong> At that age each movement had to offer higher mobility and stability. We moved on a lower level to gradually improve our movement quality for the next level (upright posture).<\/p>\n

Ground-based exercises are a beneficial alternative for every training program. Animal athletics include postures and movements of our early childhood<\/strong>, such as crawling, and movement patterns from the animal world, such as crabs, monkeys or lizards. <\/strong>It’s the re-learning of previously know movement patterns.
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Why you should include animal athletics in your workout?<\/h2>\n

Animal athletics provide a better movement intelligence, control and dynamic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our movement is driven by external impacts, by impulses and sensations. While doing ground-based exercises the body has to counteract the gravity force.<\/strong> The whole musculature reacts in a way similar to that of a chain reaction to prevent that we fall, and thereby making focused locomotion possible.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ground-based exercises challenge our body in a different way than standing exercises, e.g. our joints are in a different angle, separate muscular control and even physiological components such as respiration and blood circulation differ.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Benefits of ground-based training:<\/strong><\/p>\n