Primal Motion

Much like wealth accumulation and compound interest, consistent application of health habits and practices will pay dividends over the long term. We want you to think of this as “health wealth”.

Each day you should be making deposits into your health account (any elements from the Primal Pie) and minimize the debits leaving your account (bad food/drink, sedentary lifestyle, stress) and let compound interest take care of the rest.

Start small if you need to but commit to doing a little bit every day and you will gain momentum. As we’ve mentioned before, “it’s easier to stay on the horse and keep riding than it is to have fallen off and having to climb back
up again”!

At Primal motion we believe in making use of a variety of techniques and training modalities to progress our clients ability to build strength and handle heavy loads, these include: Calisthenics, Compound lifts and Interval training.💪

To enhance performance output and movement mastery you need to move efficiently and economically, in other words you must exercise control throughout the entirety of your movements.

Increasing your proprioceptive awareness will facilitate improved neuromuscular control and result in more fluid flowing movement, balance and co-ordination thus ensuring less adaptive compensation, energy expenditure and injury.

Primal Motion will promote movement control via segmental and global joint mobility drills, neuromuscular feedback and proprioceptive balance tasks and dynamic primal movement sequences.🤘

This is our Primal Pie;

We have laid out 7 elements of health. Imagine that the pie is your portfolio and each element is an investment.

Rather than placing all your eggs in one basket, you need to diversify and distribute your wealth evenly throughout the portfolio.

The sum total of the elements of health in the Primal Pie represents your Physical Capital or Physical Wealth.

Consider how proficiently you are maintaining each of your health investments and based on that, how well would you fare if we were to audit your health portfolio today? 💲💪

Primal Motion has partnered with Trainerize. 💪 This means you’ll have access to online workouts, in-app messaging, and progress tracking all at your fingertips.📱

Hope you guys are missing this space as much as we are! 💪

Hi Primal Peeps,

We have taken Primal Motion online and now have a mobile app offering online training. What this includes:

#1 You’ll have access to online workouts, in-app messaging, and progress tracking.

#2 Join our online community with virtual access to our studio.

#3 Take advantage of on-demand video workouts and classes ranging from strength and conditioning to mobility.

#3 Tailored program creation to your needs and environment.

#5 With habit and nutrition coaching; tracking your macro nutrient and calorie intake through Apple watch, Fitbit and MyFitnessPal integration.

Please get into contact for more information.
From the Primal Team. 💪

Primal Motion updated their business hours.

Primal patterns.....from a young age we are compelled to challenge ourselves and test boundaries.

We explore and discover by doing and are primed to test the limits of our capabilities.

Push-pull-squat-lunge-lift-run-jump-throw-climb....do what you were born to do 👊🏻

At Primal Motion we encourage our clients to adopt healthy nutritional habits, as nourishment is vital to cellular health and your vitality as an organism.

Most people dig their heels in when advised to reduce the amount of starchy and processed carbohydrates as this would mean giving up certain “comfort” food.

To live vitally you need 4 elements in your diet. Essential amino acids, essential fats, essential vitamins and essential minerals.

Carbohydrates are part of the equation because they deliver certain vitamins and minerals but they themselves are not “essential”.

Excess consumption of carbohydrates can cause a cascade of health issues starting with insulin resistance and resulting in Metabolic Syndrome.

Reducing carbohydrate intake may seem intimidating at first but once you’ve taken that first step you won’t look back.

Check out this interesting article.....

https://medium.com/swlh/what-if-they-cured-diabetes-and-no-one-noticed-keto-diet-ketogenic-virta-study-d49c195bf8f5

What If They Cured Diabetes and No One Noticed? - The Startup - Medium If the ketogenic diet can reverse diabetes, why isn’t your doctor recommending it?

How often do you get Primal and spend time outdoors?

There is a tidal wave of information and evidence that living the way we currently do is damaging us as a species.

We are surrounded on a daily basis by artificial things we’ve made. From the houses we live in to the cars we drive to the clothes we wear to the food we eat!

We are not suggesting that you move to the Yukon and live a self-sustaining “off the grid” lifestyle just to be healthy (but it would help)...

Simply spending more time in nature would help. To be closer to nature is ingrained into your DNA and it’s what biological evolution has primed your cells to crave.

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2019/02/study-kids-who-spend-time-in-nature-become-happier-adults/

Study: Kids Who Spend Time in Nature Become Happier Adults Decades-long study shows that the more time we spend outdoors as kids, the less chance we have of mental illness as adults.

The morning trash haul on my walk to work on Wednesday morning. This is a 600m stretch and the haul includes the shopping basket.
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The cable ties were left on the street after the local ward election candidates had removed their campaign boards.
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Are we responsible for our own demise?

We evolved to hunt and gather in the natural would where dynamic movement was a staple. Now we exist in an artificial environment where we purchase and park and have no space in our lives for movement.

Movement is essential to your biology and when combined with natural elements such as sunlight, fresh air and ground contact its a vitality bomb!

https://returntonow.net/2016/02/24/the-caveman-cure-for-depression/?fbclid=IwAR1qMTA7R3biOzIvxStN0BlATvR-qL75d7d61FnAnZxVWzkGmmSin9Pocvk

Depression is A Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure Depression is not a natural disease. It’s a disease caused by our high-stress, industrialized lifestyle, psychologist argues. Depression is a global epidemic. It is the main driver behind su***de, which now claims more than a million lives per year worldwide. One in four Americans will suffer from...

Time to clean up your act!

Join Primal Motion on Saturday morning on a beach clean up along the Sea Point Beach Front.

Here is a link for all our clients who are wanting to live stream the Magic828 Music Radio Breakfast show tomorrow morning, to catch Mark Lang live on air.

http://ndstream.net/magic828/pc.htm

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To all our clients, be sure to tune in to Magic828 Music Radio on Friday morning as the legendary Guy McDonald interviews one of Primal Motion's trainers, Mark Lang. Talking and tackling trash.

One of our core values is consistency.

Apply yourself consistently to your training process and you will bask in the satisfaction of your achievement.

I’d like to shout out to one of our most consistent performers this year, .young.9279. He’s been pitching up and taking the pain all year which resulted in a great ride and some personal PB’s

Keep it up Jem 👊🏻

Who's on bunion patrol?

The foot is a severely neglected segment of the body and yet it is relied upon exclusively every single day to support and transport you around while being suffocated in inside shoes.

Don't take your feet for granted, liberate them, take off your shoes + wiggle your toes + walk on different surfaces and offer them different movement tasks.

For more information or foot freedom contact us at Primal Motion.

When the foot pronates the forefoot abducts away from the body’s midline. In this moment the big toe follows the movement of the forefoot - away from the body’s midline.

A flatter pronated foot is known as a valgus foot. A bunion - although there do appear to be two types of bunion is known as a hallux valgus. Effectively a pronated toe.

A bunion is present where this movement of the toe (away from the body’s midline) is greater than it should be. It’s more valgus than it should be and we could suggest more pronated than it should be. In this case there is excess gapping at the first MTPJ (or big toe joint) - which is where a bunion is located as marked by the blue V on the image.

Foot pronation as you likely know is a specific shape in the foot created by the 26 bones and 33 joints in the foot. Each of the joints on the midline of the foot should open / gap as the foot pronates.

It is often the case that a bunion forms where there is excess opening in this joint. Excess opening of a joint appears to make up for a lack of such gapping at other related joints.

More often than not you can look one joint up in the midfoot at the 1st metatarso-cuneiform joint to find that it is unable to open (I.e. abduct). In order to generate the necessary motion of pronation in the foot, the toe must pronate more now due to the lack of pronation in the midfoot, and the gapping will thus be excessive creating an environment for a bunion. In this scenario, the bunion is not the problem but may actually be acting as a solution (giving you more at one joint to make up for less at another).

Can you get the joints of the midfoot opening in a pronation movement while mobilising the big toe joint to take the pressure off your bunion?

Do you get out and explore.....ever?

There are mounds of research that support the benefits of getting outdoors and spending time in nature and re-connecting with your roots.

Come on people, get Primal and get outdoors! Join us every weekend on our Table Mountain explorations!

(If you interested in joining us just drop us a message)

https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/doctors-in-shetland-can-now-prescribe-a-walk-in-nature?rebelltitem=1

Doctors in Scotland can now prescribe nature to their patients Since October 5, doctors in Shetland, Scotland have been authorized to prescribe nature to their patients. It's thought to be the first program of its kind in the U.K., and seeks to reduce blood pressure, anxiety, and increase happiness for those with diabetes, a mental illness, stress, heart diseas...

Do your children use a tablet?

There is a growing body of research that is shedding light on how damaging the use of WiFi radiation is and more importantly how bad it is for those who have no control over their level of exposure...your children.

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2018/03/20/why-multiple-countries-have-banned-wifi-cell-phones-around-schools-young-children-fetuses/

Multiple Countries Ban Wifi & Cell Phones Around Schools, Young Children & Fetuses There are thousands of peer-reviewed studies that have come out, and continue to come out, raising some alarming facts about our favourite gadgets such as cell phones, tablets, our use of Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi radiation) and more. But the main focus lately seems to be on WiFi and cell phones, as a number of....

News flash: Smoking is bad for you!

That's old news! Everybody knows that smoking is harmful yet it is a habit that is difficult to abstain from.

For those out there that still enjoy (??) smoking a "rat / durrey / ciggie / fag / lung buster/cancer stick", have a look at this video!

Optimal health happens one step at a time, take that first step....

Welcome to the new year.

At Primal Motion we hope that with this new year comes fresh objectives and rejuvenated enthusiasm to achieve optimal health and fitness.

To kick it all off, we have a question for you: do any of you suffer from non-specific aches and pains that are difficult to pin point and that you can't seem find the solution to?

If your answer is yes then please take the time to watch the following......

https://vimeo.com/205264910

Now take your shoes off, get off your backside and get outdoors!

DOWN TO EARTH This is "DOWN TO EARTH" by Big Picture Ranch on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Considering that you get issued with one body at birth and it has to last you a lifetime, do you think you take enough care of it?

The British Journal of Sports Medicine has laid out a simple, bare minimum guide on how active we should be.

The general message here is: get off your backside and MOVE!

Is Cholesterol really a villain or has it been falsely accused?

This article reveals an interesting fact that may surprise you....

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/diagnosis-diet/201709/low-brain-cholesterol-separating-fact-fiction

Low Brain Cholesterol—Separating Fact from Fiction How statin drugs and plant-based diets actually affect your mental health

Primal Motion is about tapping into the primacy of human function to improve performance and wellbeing!

The previous post touched on something called "redox potential" which was related to improved health at a cellular level and since we are made up of cells, its pretty important to pay attention!!

Here is another interesting piece of "grounding" and why its vital to get your feet dirty!

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/08/24/studies-show-what-happens-to-the-human-body-when-we-walk-barefoot-on-earth/

Studies Show What Happens To The Human Body When We Walk Barefoot On Earth The picture above represents Improved facial circulation (right image) after 20 minutes of grounding, as documented by a Speckle Contrast Laser Imager (dark blue=lowest circulation; dark red=highest circulation). Image Source: Scientific Research Publishing Grounding, or ‘earthing,’ as some people c...

Take your shoes off + get more sunlight + eat less carbohydrates = healthy happy human!

Since we are products of our environment, some simple changes to our environment can significantly improve your health.

If you have some time to learn more watch this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQZuLCb0oM4&feature=youtu.be

Biosystem Fitness - Low Carb Nutrition and Sunlight