By Stefano Tripney, MovNat Team Instructor Want to know how to put MovNat into a workout? Here's a beginner-level MovNat Combo Workout to get your heart pumping and muscles burning while you're improving your natural movement skills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjkGKb1PsTk Instructions: Repeat the following movements in a circuit fashion 3-5 times (i.e. one after ... Read more ›
By Danny Clark, MovNat Performance Director and Master Instructor For what purpose do you train? It’s a simple question, but intention is everything. Going to a gym to “exercise” – to move and stress your body in distinct ways to maintain or improve its physical state – is a very new ... Read more ›
Advice and tips for current and future MovNat Certified Trainers from four of our top instructors If you're thinking of attending a MovNat Certification event, and you'd like some advice from an insider's perspective, check out this group interview with four of our Team Instructors, which will help you get prepared for any ... Read more ›
By Erwan Le Corre, MovNat Founder and Master Instructor If you can bench press your body weight and run a six minute mile, but you can't kneel on the ground comfortably and efficiently, there's a gap in your fitness, movement skills, and capability for real life. So, if you want to be fit ... Read more ›
Interviews with Six Movement Masters On Natural Movement Fitness (Part 3) by John Sifferman Erwan Le Corre has been called the world's fittest man, and many have likened him to a modern-day Tarzan. Since founding the MovNat Natural Movement Fitness System, he's taught thousands of people how to move naturally in order to ... Read more ›
The Problem With Modern Fitness and FOUR Things Smart Trainers Are Doing About It By Danny Clark, MovNat Performance Director & Master Instructor Find a trainer, or any health and fitness professional, and pay them for a one on one session. Then ask them to teach you how to move the way ... Read more ›
Interviews with Six Movement Masters On Natural Movement Fitness (Part 2) by John Sifferman Erwan Le Corre has been called the world's fittest man, and many have likened him to a modern-day Tarzan. Since founding the MovNat Natural Movement Fitness System, he's taught thousands of people how to move naturally in order to ... Read more ›
By Erwan Le Corre, MovNat Founder. Being fit for the real world means training for it. Lately I have been noticing more allusions to "real-world situations" in fitness articles, trying to explain how a conventional approach to strength conditioning may not be that relevant in the real life. Welcome to ... Read more ›
By Abby Clark, MovNat Team Instructor It’s more than harder movement This past weekend 15 candidates from around the world (Canada, South Africa, China, Taiwan, Europe and the U.S) came together for MovNat’s annual level 3 certification course. This year it was held in the mountains of New Mexico, led by Erwan and Danny ... Read more ›
Interviews with Six Movement Masters On Natural Movement Fitness (Part 1) by John Sifferman Stefano Tripney Erwan Le Corre has been called the world's fittest man, and many have likened him to a modern-day Tarzan. Since founding the MovNat Natural Movement Fitness System, he's taught thousands of people how to move naturally in order ... Read more ›
The MovNat Level 1 trainer certification is hands down the greatest way to not only earn the skill of teaching others Natural Movement, but also re-establish your own baseline movement ability, physical conditioning, and mobility. The problem is that the process of re-connecting with so many diverse, seemingly complex/intimidating movements can be quite overwhelming. ... Read more ›
By Dr. Christa Whiteman To be fit is to be deeply healthy. However, in the modern era, the ‘fitness’ industry is very aesthetically-oriented, even more painfully so for women. As presented in our culture, the only reason for women to move vigorously is to strive for that perfect beach body that looks like the ... Read more ›
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE BUSHCRAFT JOURNAL How I got here. How you can too. By Bert Poffé Explorer and Rewilding Coach        As a child I was running around the woods playing explorer and adventurer. But at the same time I began playing tennis and soon ... Read more ›
By Erwan Le Corre I am hanging from a metal rail across the window of my second-floor bedroom, my whole body in the void facing the wall, some forty feet above the ground. Nobody told me, forced me or challenged me to do this. I am totally on my own. I am not following ... Read more ›
By Erwan Le Corre Bonjour! I hope you are having a fantastic summer that is physically dynamic and that involves significantly more movement than the rest of the year. Isn't it what summer is a lot about, not just being outside more but also moving in nature more? This is what Natural ... Read more ›
What does MovNat look like at home? Here is one simple, thoughtful solution. By Danny Clark. I've been fortunate enough to hang out with Collin Beggs, a timber framer in his early forties, in his home town (and my former home) of Sandpoint, Idaho for the last week. Collin is a longtime ... Read more ›
We are bombarded by information. Aren’t we? By Erwan le Corre, MovNat Founder Well, not exactly. We are letting ourselves get bombarded by a diversity of inputs and stimuli so high that staying mentally “centered” obviously becomes a challenge. Yes, everything around us seems to be screaming for our attention. What do ... Read more ›
By: Ryan McGowan L2 MovNat Trainer & owner, Laid-back Fitness. Obstacle course races (OCR) have become a staple in the fitness world. Attracting athletes of all ages and abilities, OCR offers an alternative to road races, triathlons, etc. So what’s the best way to prepare for one? Practice MovNat of course! A ... Read more ›
So I was out in rural New Mexico taking a walk this weekend. A couple times I happened to pass by this woman doing her gardening. She was somewhere around middle age, and she was doing some serious yard reclamation work. But her movement through the garden was just beautiful. I couldn’t help ... Read more ›
Introducing MovNat Online Coaching By Danny Clark, Performance Director Since 2008, MovNat has been pioneering the path of reinstating the lineage of natural physical education. Today we’re proud to introduce our newest outreach: online coaching. We knew we needed to be more accessible, but we didn’t want to sacrifice the ... Read more ›