What's your favorite exercise that gets you interacting with the ground? Comment below

I’m 61 years old and your channel has just informed me about squatting and crawling. I really like the crawling and just moving around on the ground with my grandkids! It’s a blast! Thank you.

I have AIDS and no legs and have struggled for so long to be mobile. Your videos have helped me so much. Thank you 🙏

As a former Activity Director in a nursing home, exercise was my main activity. My program became so popular that I ended up visiting many homes in the county. Seeing first hand how much falls impact senior citizens is disturbing, it's also expensive, costing my state alone over 60 million dollars annually. ( hospital stay, family members taking time off work for care) so keeping the core strong and being acquainted with the ground is a must. Seeing seniors that were permanently disabled because they fell and couldn't move for hours is heartbreaking. Everyone should practice these moves in preparation for aging. Thanks for the awesome video!

I used to love rolling as a kid! There's so much we stop doing as teens and adults, that we shouldn't, just because we worry about what people will say! Let's start playing again!🌻💚

I am almost daily laying on the ground and roll around... this is so grounding and releases stress. I have never seen something on the internet about it before. :D

I have Pars Defect and am only 21 years old. I’ve dealt with it for over two years and it leaves me hopeless for recovery most days. But things like this, tips and advice like this that is the most natural thing possible, gives me hope. Thank you for what you do

Thanks Guys! I sustained a severe traumatic brain injury. Learning how to do everything again. And don't forget the atrophy and rigidity. Keep the helpful a great videos coming. Brad

Hey guys, I just became 42 and I always loved moving my body - yoga, capoeira, skateboarding etc - last year I had the sense of really getting old physically. I didn't except and with the inspiration of you I feel stronger and more flexible than ever. Thanks a lot

I have been practicing a crawl using just my hands and feet keeping knees off the floor. It took me almost a year of just holding that pose to be able to "crawl" without hurting myself. One day, I just did it. Now I can go for about 30 seconds crawling through the house. I think I saw it on one of your videos. Doing the floor work to learn this has made a huge difference in my strength and pain levels.

Continuously amazed at how well you guys deliver these beautiful nuggets of movement. I'll admit, I started spending more time on the ground after your squat video months ago. Now I'm hooked on stretching while touching the ground or floor. Whether it be my wrists, knees, calves, etc, the more time I spend on the floor, the better I feel when I do these stretches or exercises. In fact, I started goofing around more at the climbing gym by doing shoulder roils and back falls in a controlled manner out of the blue. Having learned much of this years ago when I was a kid in martial arts, it all came back to me once I developed a more intimate relationship with the ground, pad, or floor. Kudos guys!

More people should take your advice about working the floor for sure. I got very lucky with this lesson years ago. Everyone listen to this strength side fella. I been livin off my mats for years and its a HUGE blessing. Spend your time lying around on the floor and getting up off it many times a day. Good luck.

When my first kid was 18 months we moved to a fixer upper with hardly any furniture. We ate sitting on the floor and of course played on the floor. When my oldest was 2 year old, I got pregnant. I owe this lack of furniture to the recovery of my pelvic floor and diastasis rectus, which was a bigger problem for be with my first pregnancy and postpartum time.

All the basic move of capoeira Angola are about this kind of stuff :) I practiced many years when I was a child and teenager. And this relationship with the ground help me a lot now that I'm practicing calisthenic. I never fall, I always have a roll or a capoeira escaping move to save myself from injuries.

I exactly feel like I absolutely lack mobility and have pain due to this and this past year I made effort to better it that way. It helped, and I want 2023 to be even better!

One of your best videos... A lot of other videos discuss these movements, but I love the way you guys frame it as getting "reacquainted with the ground." Also, you go beyond formal "exercise" and talk about incorporating these positions into everyday routine and non-exercise tasks. Inspiring!

I agree you have to get up fluidity off the floor. I help seniors with exercise and do calisthenics too. Very beneficial. Thanks guys!

Great stuff, have been spending alot more time on the ground having a 6 month old and I really enjoy it. Even just laying completely flat not on a soft surface but the hard ground is therapeutic!

❤floor myself, from Islands, WI, Jamaica and love ground or on veranda floor. Feet with on various textures especially in the sun. Presently my place no way on the floor, it’s not sanitary at this time. I look forward to enjoying that. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏽📖😇

This is so real guys!!! I was watching a video recently about some very traumatized women and children in Mozambique, aside from the trauma of their insanely precarious life situation, I noticed how comfortably they rested just sitting on the ground with their legs together placed full length straight out from their core body. I was thinking “I so could not sit like that for more then a minute” God bless these poor folk for their resilience in the face of such horrors and their unconscious example of healthy living. Love you two, keep up the great info!

I cannot describe how much I appreciate your channel! So inspiring and backed yet up by bite size, easy to put into practice ideas! Thank you! I love going on more traditional camp overnighters and sleeping under a tarp... so for me I think it's just the practical functions out there from starting a fire while on the ground, to cooking, processing wood, carving, etc.

There is so much truth and validity to this! I love your comment about something to the affect that the easier we can get up off the ground the longer we will live! It seem so logical! I spent 20 years thinking yoga was all I needed! But I was wrong! It’s these movements, being able to role, and squat, and stretch with out being so rigidly focussed on form has allowed me to reconnect to my body in ways yoga never facilitated to be honest! I love this

Easily my favorite "fitness" enthusiasts on KZfaq. S/o to you guys. Nothing but practicality and simplicity. Love it!

Man your movements and videos in general are soo inspirational! beautiful stuff:)

Thank you so much. I loved to sit on the ground, but now with overweight and pains in my body I just stopped doing that. I miss my floor...you gave me a good puch and inspiration to start again. Very grateful. Wish you Love and light.

1:03 is goals. I was able to do this a child and a teen. At some point I stopped and now it’s no longer easy to do. Now at 40 and want to do it again.

You are an incredible example of a human animal! Watching you move with ease and in balanced function is like watching a beautiful dance.

So much love for this channel. Positive, fundamentals for daily movement habits from calm encouraging people

I love the seiza sit routine from a previous video, where you start standing, lowering yourself with only your legs into a seiza, holding for a bit, and then reversing. It's been great for ankle flexibility and knee strength. I really love this channel, really inspiring to try new ways of moving, instead if sticking to the traditional routines. Much love,

please more follow-alongs and instructive exercises related to primal movement!

We must connect with our ancestors 🙏🏽 love this video! Much love ⚡️

Thanks for this video. I also love when you talk about Journaling, intuition, and things of a spiritual matter like meditation. I love hearing about your life journey. My favorite ground work right now is sitting cross legged, squots, and a few yoga poses.

I teach yoga and have quite a few classes of seniors. We stress being able to get off the floor. They learn different ways to do so in case they find themselves in an unplanned situation on the floor. Nice video.

Thank you so much for being you🫂 I appreciate you both and your content. It was great to see your feets🦶🏻on the ground☺️

I have no Table and no Chair - only for living more on the Ground - so I can stretch, move, build natural strength all the time and it is has an big impact on my live.

Thank you! Love your videos! I could do everytbing you do, but after sitting and stresses for long time now I bearly could walk it is so paiful. I can't feel my body, totally disconnected(..I loved to exercise on the floor, I was reading books on pancake position, great feeling after this! You motivate me start again, step by step..Not be ashamed of myself and not be affraid of pain. And be free again!❤️

This video is great. Simple stuff like this can be profound, and your method of communicating it is spot on.

Das macht schon Freude beim Zuschauen...ich bin begeistert ! So simpel den Körper beweglich zu halten , ohne Hilfsmittel...nur Körper + Boden ...Klasse ! 👍

I love rolling around on the ground. It feels like it really helps me with neuromuscular recalibration.

Great video, my favorite moves are the bear crawl and the ape walk, I've been realizing that keeping my mobility is very important, I see too many people my age who can barely move, and I refuse to let that happen to me, your videos have inspired me to work more towards keeping my flexibility and move more, thank you.

Interesting! I'm going to give sitting on the floor a shot until the end of the year and see how things go!

I sleep on the floor on a mat since I broke my neck. My spine still has 13 herniated discs. I can’t sleep in beds. It does help to sleep and sit on the ground. You must relax against the ground; it’s harder than you are. No fighting with stabilizer muscles all night like you do in a bed.

Such a dense and fundamental message! Thank you so much for inspiration! For the time being my favorite is 90/90 to half kneeling switching left to right and reverse. And hip internal rotation in squat position is a proper challenge for me at the moment - getting that knee to the floor while shifting weight to only one leg and then getting the knee back to the side again and opening the hips... great stuff.

You guys are my favorite… Thanks for sharing this very imperative to our survival mindset and lifestyle

love moving around on the floor, my friends and i call ourselves floor people for that reason, also a lot of these movements are so critical and integrated into bjj which has been a huge blessing to practice

Another great video. Your channel just might be my favorite in 2023, especially for this month.

Grounding. Connect with the earth. Pure inspiration here! Usually sit in meditation pose but now I wanna roll on the ground as once did in childhood.

My dad actually taught us how to fall when we were kids, and I’ve had to use that knowledge a few times to avoid injury. I’ve been working on including more natural movements into my routine for the last couple years, including using the primal squat often, which has helped my back and legs so much to avoid pain and muscle tightness.

Amazing approach, I‘ve never seen it that way! You guys helped me tons leveling out the insane amount of running I‘m doing at the moment. Thank you! 🙏🏻

I love this. I'm 63 have done martial arts for a long time, even when I quit going to classes I have always kept doing stretches. I've been doing the get up but you take it to a new level. Kevin Secours does a lot of ground rolls and tactical get ups, so I've been working on it.

I love you guys so much 💗 you inspire me in so many ways. Having spent a whole life feeling unsafe in my body, I deeply appreciate how you're showing me a way through and out of it. Deep gratitude.

I'm planning on writing a book about this. I especially like the inclusion of rolls. I did them on a mat in an Aikido dojo, it's not so comfortable to do them on the floor, but I can see from your demonstration that if you bend your body as you're rolling the contact is much smoother and more comfortable.

We need a Strength Side Brothers' rolling compilation with Limp Bizkit's "Rollin" in the background.

A great life lesson and exercise! Thank you

Awesome video! I'm 65 and still sit cross leg on the ground, always have favored the squat style. I was that crazy student in college not sitting in a desk but shoes off, crossed leg on the floor..😊

I I've always preferred sitting on the ground and being barefoot indoors as well as outdoors when possible, and I never knew. In fact sometimes I crave to sleep on the floor and being that I live in Brooklyn where it's not advisable to sleep on the floor I usually just put two comforters hoping any creepy crawlies don't go above the comfort level

Bro I absolutely love how many people are happy and grateful and experiencing more fluidity in their lives

Inspiring. Logical place to start. Mobility is ever decreasing with age, to spend time on the floor simple and natural way to stretch

Love this! And I'll definitely try be more connected to the ground... Thank you!

These stances are indeed commonly used in South-East Asia and a routine especially for Silat practitioners. For instance, you started with the Buaya stance (crocodile) and moved to Kucing stance (cat) to Kucing buka (open cat) stance (i.e., your "tactical get-up"). You just miss other stances there like Kuda-kuda (horse) you quickly go through after your tactical get-up or Harimau (tiger) or Kura-kura (turtle) when you get your back round on the ground... Anyway, very good stuff here!

I am 66 YO. I learned a technique somewhat similar to this back in the 90’s. It is called Feldenkrais. However, your method really rocks! I will start practicing now. Thank you. Blessings for this 2023!!! 🎉

made quite well. Has here few points I advocated for about a decade now.

I like this approach, very simple and yet highly efficient. Thank you !

Agility & mobility increases longevity! Brilliant

The more I play with my baby's on the floor the more I feel the need to learn to move functionally on the ground, to save my back!!! Learning how to stand from laying down while holding your baby is an underrated skill.

This makes a lot of sense. During the first two years of quarantine, I would go outside and sit on the ground all day and I felt better, I had no back issues. Since I've been sitting in a chair again I've been having hip pains. Thanks for the video.

Got really inspired with this. Thanks!

Love doing all sorts of movements with the steel mace while barefoot, that's my grounding movement! . Great video

Love you as you save our lives!

I think the Half Kneeling Switch is perfect for my flex routine... I've always found myself kneeling while typing or reading on the side of my bed. I love these tips... Thanks

I love crawling and get ups!! I would love to learn more rolling movements. I haven't done anything like that since I was a child..

Just brilliant - makes my day watching you guys! x

58 and a regular floor sitter. I do like carpet though, not only is the floor hard, it’s often cold. 😂

Im so happy I stumbled across this. Thank you for sharing!

Love the real and doable flow that you present. As I age I am realizing how important these movements are to staying young and active. Your comments about falling are so true. Thank you for putting yourself out there. It blesses many.

I’ve been a fitness instructor for over 20 years. I’ve had a bad low back for many years (degenerative discs). I have learned to live with it. Broke a hip 10 years ago but healed quickly & have minimal issues from that. One is that whole side of my body seems to have shifted. It’s “off.” Example, in order to lift my right leg behind me properly, I cannot put the rules of balance into place the same as I do lifting the other leg. My feet / toes must be slightly pointing to the left & I have to tork my leg & twist my foot downward as I lift that leg. That said, I’ve noticed over the years I have about 3 things I must do in order to get up off the floor; whereas not too long ago I would always pop right up & I’d wait for my participants to rise. Watching your video makes me want to work harder on popping up off the ground or floor. Your rolls & evenly-distributed body strength are so fluid. This made me realize this is what I don’t have . Upper body & one side of my body are stronger & more capable than the other. This is so frustrating. Also, weak low back & the weak hip from the fracture propose the unbalanced strength/ abilities. I do notice when I do a lot of core strength exercises or Pilates, that I feel stronger all over. However, I have to be careful I do not finish incomplete. In other words, I need to be sure I work everything equally. Sometimes that means working my weak areas with a couple of more reps. Even though that’s anatomically incorrect, is it possible this can be correct for my imbalanced state? Thank you!!

What I love about strength side videos the most is there duality. These guys know how to show viewers instructions from a nice cozy modern home (which says to the more civilized of society that they're not cave men) while going out side and getting down to the nitty gritty with very important primitive movements and exercises (which speaks correctly to us more rugged and primitive types) who prefer less modern living and like to do things more natural and manual which is more effective in our environments. Awesome video guys. There needs to be two Xtra like buttons on this one as far as I'm concerned.👍👍👍 Keep up the good work!!!

I love this video! I can’t tell you how many people I tell, “You have to make friends with the floor or it will become your enemy and punch back.”

Thank you. I haveslways enjoying tumbling and now I feel better about it. There is reassert high that shows laying on the ground literaly grounds you and is good for mental health

Brilliant, please can we broadcast this at my mother's nursing home whose staff constantly forced my mother to wear socks and shoes. Mind you, my mother grew up in India barefoot for 38 years of her life, and has late stage Parkinson's disease and based on my experience with her is far more stable when she is barefoot in her room. The nursing home looks at me like I am an alien b/c I always remove the socks and shoes

I am in looove with floor movements!! They have helped me become flexible, aware, stronger, and grounded. Crawling is my go to!!! But a nice 15-20 minutes flow is best!!!🧘🏽🙏

Very inspiring! I immediately placed my laptop onto my chair and watched the video while moving on the ground. I also want to add the push-up to the list. It might be a common exercise but it is also a way to interact with and get up from the ground and I highly prefer it over benchpress.

Thanks for your channel Josh you inspire me every day 🙏💚

Hey! I want to say thank you for incredible stuff what you are doing. I have been following your videos for a month and recently subscribed for Guided program. I had lower back pain for 3 years after my baby was born and this is the first week when I wake up and can get from bed with no pain or stiffness in the lower back😊

I work with children so getting up from the ground is a must. Demonstrating how to do it without causing injury is a good idea. My body always aches after a day working with my kiddos.

Man I love you guys. Your channel is massively awesome and unique. I would love to see you connect with a guy named Paul Chek. Maybe you’ve heard of him. I can see an amazing conversation between you guys!

I just love watching/listening to your videos. So informative and soothing at the same time. Great job, fellas!

Thank you very much

A million subscribers! Strewth!! Shows how good your content is.

Thank you love your videos. Since you asked my favorite on the ground movement is happy baby yoga pose with a lot of improvising side to side rolling and stretching. 65 years old and trying to keep mobile

IT'S more so a State of thinking. We just call it life! I have ten grand kids.. most under the age of teen, I'm big on ground Play with them. I've pushed it as a way of playing. Mist Young parents, have no clue as to this teaching. Glad to see it in a video, because that's how the new generation is learning. ✅🎯✌️🤠

Judo warmups, jujitsu and submission wrestling fundamental movements.. my comfort zone is in judo and assuming the uke role during fits and practice throws alerted me as to how kneejerk reflexively scared I was of being thrown, especially on the ogoshi hip throw.. one instructor assigned me specific drills to overcome the fear. For what its worth, randori put me in a position where I had a fragment of a moment to figure out I was about to lose position, take a fall and know which direction to go..there wasn't time to be afraid.

you guys possess a wisdom on movement that I rarely encounter elsewhere.

A very fresh perspective about very primal human instincts. Great vid.

Fantastic. Thank you very much!

Beginning and ending the video with touching grass... doesn't get more real and primal than that! Great info my dudes, definitely gonna work on bumping up my floor time!

You guys are the best. Love your videos! At this point, I am working on crawling.

From the earth Back to the earth

Heck yes! I’m going to give this to clients as an exercise 💪🏻

Thanks guys!