How To Get Ridiculously Strong with Natural Movement
By Danny Clark This article is going to teach you how to get absurdly strong. Way beyond 600 pound deadlift strong. I’m talking about work all day with a smile on your face, indefatigable strong. Climb up anything strong. Easily pick up heavy objects from awkward...
Stronger Together: Empower Your Body, Mind, and Heart with Cooperative Training
by Erwan Le Corre, MovNat Founder Cooperation between the members of the same human group, clan, or tribe was a fundamental aspect of ancestral life until very recently. All individuals of a community had to work cooperatively to ensure both group survival and...
Why Natural Movement Is Therapy
Why MovNat in a Physical Therapy Practice? By Dr. Jenny Ploss, PT, DPT, Level 2 MovNat Certified Trainer When you walk into Langford Sports & Physical Therapy, you might notice something different about the exercises. Most of our physical therapists are certified...
MovNat During A Flash Flood Crisis: A “Strong To Be Helpful” Story
Our friend, José Vega, from Maryland had to apply his MovNat training during a recent trip to the Grand Canyon where he and his wife encountered the Havasupai Flash Flood. The story and some of the lessons he learned from the experience is detailed in this email he...
3 Advanced Natural Movement Workouts
Looking for some challenging Natural Movement workouts? Below, you’ll find 3 advanced-level MovNat workouts that will help you put your skills to the test and improve your movement competence, fitness, and conditioning. These are meant to serve as examples, and...
Unspecialized Training: A Case For Becoming a Natural Movement Fitness Generalist
How Natural Movement Solves The Many Problems Stemming From Specialization in Sports, Fitness, and Lifestyle Habits by Erwan Le Corre, MovNat Founder Human beings have evolved as “movement generalists,” so we could survive not only a variety of environments but also...
Backyard Natural Movement Workout with Dr. Phil Lombardo
What does a Natural Movement workout look like when you have limited time, space, equipment, and no gym to train in? Here’s one creative example. This is a Natural Movement workout one of our MovNat Certified Trainers did recently in his back yard. Even though...
Why I Shed Tears After The MovNat Workshop
How I Found My “New Body” And Relearned How to Move After a Devastating Accident Left Me Paralyzed Five years ago, Aika Yoshida was thinking about enrolling in the MovNat Certification Program, then she suffered a tragic spinal cord injury that left her...
Introducing the Revamped MovNat Licensing Program
From its inception, MovNat has offered an alternative to the extreme, over-specialized, conventional approach to fitness. The Natural Movement “movement” that began in 2008 has shown again and again that moving and training the way your body is designed is...
Beyond Technique: The Necessity of Movement Efficiency
How to Use Efficiency To Improve Your Movement Skill, Fitness, and Conditioning by Erwan Le Corre, MovNat Founder Anyone can effectively crawl, walk, run, jump, balance, lift, and carry—to some extent at least. But can everyone perform such movements skillfully? Even...
Fitness VS Movement: Science Shows Quality Training Matters
Study Shows “Movement-Guided Fitness” Is Superior To Traditional Approaches In Two Important Ways In gyms all across the world, millions of people are unknowingly settling for sub-par fitness results, no matter how hard they work. It’s true that...
Advanced MovNat Combo Workout for Exploring Your Environment
By Nathan Amado, Level 3 MovNat Certified Trainer How about a challenging Natural Movement workout to help you up your game? Here’s an advanced level MovNat Combo Workout, which will give you some ideas for finding movement opportunities in the environment around you....
What Muscles Are Actually For
We asked the MovNat community… What does muscle (and its qualities of enabling strength/conditioning/ability/mobility) mean to you? We were blown away as hundreds of you opened up and shared your responses, as part of our #WhatMusclesAre4 Challenge on Instagram....
3 Ways to Improve Your Balance Naturally
By John Sifferman We asked some of our top MovNat Professionals: What’s your single best training tip for improving balance? They sent us some great ideas on how to use your mind, your daily habits, and your environment to improve your balance quickly and...
Adaptability: The Missing Link in Fitness
by Erwan Le Corre, MovNat Founder The fundamental reason why animals—including humans—have a brain is so they can perform adaptable movement within complex environments and situations. Not surprisingly, adaptability is a core principle of Natural Movement and its...
Meet Melissa & Kim: Our Newest MovNat Team Instructors
Allow us to introduce you to Melissa Sher and Kimberly Alexander who are both new MovNat Team Instructors and the owners of one of our Licensed Facilities, Point Gym & Kitchen in Portland, Oregon. Kim and Melissa are both long-time athletes, fitness enthusiasts,...
3 Intermediate Natural Movement Workouts
Want some intermediate-level Natural Movement workouts to increase the challenge in your training? Below, you’ll find 3 intermediate-level MovNat workouts that will help you improve your movement skill, fitness, and conditioning. These are meant to serve as...
How to Crawl Very Low to the Ground
How do you crawl underneath a very low object? One way is to use the Push Pull Crawl technique, which is a more efficient version of what some call the “Army crawl.” This movement is useful for crawling very low to the ground while minimizing friction and...