This is great. I see the difference in my two sons 10 and 7 We have a trampoline and when I was kid, I figured out how to flip and twist and trick. My boys ask me ‘how do I do this/that?’ I just say, figure it out. And give some cues here and there. But just encouraging them to play more than anything. The 10 yr old figured out back flips and twist flips and such. His younger brother not as…naturally coordinated. But has more raw strength age for age . So he likes doing different stuff where he can be strong. Had I tried to put them into football, baseball, basketball. They would not have excelled in any of those. As it is. One is doing very well in soccer. And the other wrestling. Just allowing for play/discovery which as adults we mostly stop altogether. So then we are a generation of adults who can’t move raising kids who are content to sit and not move while gaming. If the kids see me in the yard playing around with a mace or slam ball or crawling around more than likely they want to come out and do the same stuff cuz it’s not ‘working out’. It’s just being a goofball human having a good time.

types of movement flexion: when a joint moves towards fetal position extension: when a joint moves away from fetal position dorsal flexion of the foot: moving your toes up toward the back of the foot plantar flexion of the foot: moving your toes toward the plantar (bottom surface) of the foot anterior pelvic tilt: spilling the basin of water in front of you posterior pelvic tilt: spilling the spacing to the back of you, behind you abduction: movement away from the center line of the body e.g. move your arm up perpendicularly to the center line adduction: movement towards the center line of the body e.g. move your arm back down pronation: twisting your forearm down supination: twisting your forearm up (holding soup) internal rotation: moving your arm inwards external rotation: moving your arm outwards elevation: lifting your shoulders upward protraction: pushing your shoulders forward (like a gamer) retraction: pulling your shoulders backward (like a macho Chad) depression: pushing your shoulders downward frontal plane: front of the body saggital plane: cut your body in half lengthwise looking at it from the front transverse plane: separates the upper and lower body (top & bottom) into two isometric contraction: muscle contracts and stay the same length concentric contraction: muscle contracts and shortens eccentric contraction: muscle contracts and lengthens open kinetic chain movement: fixed center, moving end points e.g. bench press closed kinetic chain movement: end points are fixed and center moves around it e.g. push-up ipsilateral: same side of the body e.g. a left jab in boxing with the left leg in front contralateral: opposite side of the body e.g. a right jab in boxing with the left leg in front 5:08 biceps 5:13 triceps 5:19 forearm flexors 5:27 forearm extensors 5:38 anterior, medial, posterior deltoid 5:47 upper; elevate shoulders and extend neck, media, lower traps 6:02 pec major (adduction) 6:10 lats (lattisimus dorsi = widest back muscles; pull shoulder down into extension e.g. pull-up 6:35 glute complex; hip extension e.g. bridge pose 6:46 abdominals; spinal flexion 6:54 spinal erectors; extending e.g. during deadlift 7:11 transverse abdominis; sucks everything in e.g. trying to fit in an undersized t-shirt 7:42 internal, external obliques; twisting and flexion 7:54 rhomboids; pull scapula together 7:58 scapula; bone that holds shoulder 8:24 rotator cuffs; SITS; external rotation of shoulder; commonly injured 8:48 quads; extend knee when contraction 8:54 hamstrings; flex knee and extend hip 9:09 calves; plantar flexion 9:12 gastro/heart of calves; assist knee flexion 9:17 anterior tibialis; dorsal flexion important principle: center of mass over base of support for balance; you're only balanced if the vertical projection of your center of mass falls over your base of support (10:25) base of support: area bounded by your contacts on the floor center of mass: mathematical construct of the center of where your mass is distributed

What a masterclass! This should be the first thing anyone watches if they're starting off training, of if anyone's trying to step up their training game

Very cool. I started moving in my thirties. Randomly picked up calisthenics and gymnastics and then Muay Thai and jiujitsu. I think calisthenics and jiujitsu really taught me to embrace the grind. Who cares if you aren't going to be a world class athlete. Just keep moving. Keep grinding. Grow. Excited to learn more

Best explanation on muscles and movement better than my PT training course taught me in a year. Love it!

Learned a couple of things by watching this and as another person mentioned, it really made me feel better about myself as I'm starting to get into movement. Looking forward to watching the rest.

MASSIVELY underrated. Phenomenal video. Thank you for taking the time to put this together and sharing with us. I just started learning anatomy, and this was a wonderful intro to movement. I will always think of you when thinking of abduction vs adduction XD

I just found this after watching a lot of Ido Portal interviews and videos, and I can't be more pumped to actually subscribe and get into the movement culture because it seems legit and shows a fantastic approach to building and training the body.

just got introduced to ido portal and been flopping around like a fish out of water for the past few weeks, thank you for bringing some order to the chaos! Keep making content my man, this was a masterclass :)

AWESOME video dude. I just barely found your videos but really impressed by the information & quality. I’ve always been interested in movement but like you’ve said in another video, the info & methods haven’t been made hyper accessible to most people. What you’re doing is awesome man, please keep it up 🙌🏼

Glad I stumbled upon you after researching about Ido! You deserve way more subs with all this quality content! Cheers!

Thank you so much bro !! It’s been years that I tried to get some clear informations about movement, and it seems that your videos explicitly answer to many of the question I had. So thank you again

Thank you. I enjoyed this video very much as it is very encouraging and knowledgeable.

Wonderful video, thank you!

Nice work! All the concept clearly explained. Great job!!!

Great stuff. Need to watch it more than once.

Excellent video, very informative for the basics.

Great and complete introduction of the body. Thanks a lot !

Loved hearing your personal story.

Great video! Love it. It has a good message and tons of objective factual content and the personal touch is just the cherry on the icing. Liked und subscribed

Thabk you Bren. Great video

I always think of the difference between abduction and adduction as the relationship of the b or d to the a. Abduction has the letter b which points away from the a and adduction has the d pointing towards the a

Thank you!

This first two sections of this video is like a reference book that I review every now and then. The more I watch them, the more I remember the details and that helps a lot with how I approach exercises and occasional pain or injuries.

So stoked I found you (thanks KZfaq)! Really look forward to learning from you.

I learned a good bit from this video, but more than that it made me feel really good haha. Feeling very optimistic for my future - both in movement and in general. :)

Wow this was amazing thank you so much!

awesome dude, my first movement practice was BJJ after years of soccer. My BJJ has got so much better since exploring movement like animal flow and natural movement! ooss

Love this. And moving them as you explain helps us remember plus it feels nice 😝

That was a great first class, thank you so much for share this knowledge

What an inspirational and informative video!

Thank you for this series, Bren! I'm very close to getting my headstand down and this was a good reminder of what makes good balance for these: center of mass over base of support : )

That was interesting to learn about Thallasemia! I'd never heard of that. Fascinating! Great, informative video.

I'm recently start this video series and want to express the relieve that this video give. At some time ago i'm carry this idea of background and help me to see the life with more optimistic vision. The first step is understand, after this is election if you really want to do something or no

lovely content!! time to rewatch with pen and paper haha

Great video ! it will help so many people.👍

Not exactly a neural-Link download port at the base of the cranium but this side of the singularity its as good as it gets! Wicked work friend! Don't stop!

Two for two, so far your videos are pretty solid, I'm into it

Bren, you're so athletic! Thanks for sharing this content. I've got a similar story as you; I was unathletic growing up, but after high school picked up some weight lifting and now calisthenics and little bit of BJJ. It's funny how things change.

Thanks!

Nice insight to the talent vs genetics conversation. The example of sprinters with thalassemia stood out to me, not just because you have thalassemia but because it means that my own "shortcomings" just means I'm predisposed to other things in life.

Excellent information on movement terms mist all fitness trainers throw out assuming us novices understand!

Thanks a lot a video is very impressive and motivated

This was such a valuable video Bren. Thanks for simplifying all these terms and principles to be understandable. I did not know that the rotator cuff was composed of those muscles and also that there were that many muscles in the arms. Also your explanation of genetics as dispositions rather than talent just reinforced my desire to pursue athletic goals from more than one discipline and learn more about my body’s dispositions. Thanks again and best wishes!

Nice video for those to learn the basic yet important vocabulary and essential concepts. Well made in a short amount of time :)

great video learned a lot thanks for posting!

Thankyou so much sir🙏

I learned all basic movements - more like anatomy of body - muscles and movements which play key role in working out - and doing the workout in right way

This is great. Thanks!

Hi my friend. Congrats for excelent video and precious informations. I want to know more about the "moviment". Do you know why Ido portal never wrote a book about of the subject? Hugs of Brazil!

I use ADDuction because I’m ADDing to the centreline good video.

Vid's not premiered yet and I'm already excited!

Great video, I’d just like to make one small point on the part about thalassemia: the mutation (smaller red blood cells) led to unfavorable conditions for slow twitch muscle fibers, but not fast twitch. Therefore, the adaptation of the body would be to prefer fast twitch fiber building activities (as most sprinters probably did growing up as well). The genetics idea can be better thought in context of adaptation and not predisposition, as I’d be surprised if conditions like thalassemia was an actual moderator of fast twitch fibers

This is good

Good video! keep it up!

Hi Bren! Thank you for the video! I actually shared it with my friends as supportive material for our physiotherapy education. Are you originally from Turkey? Do you speak turkish?

Been looking for someone like you so I can learn movement.I’m 16 so I can’t pay for Ido program,so I have to find my own ways learn,and train

I feel like you simplified the talent discussion a bit. I think talent can meaningfully be described as “how quickly someone can pick something up”...but the broader point remains that people who train really hard can keep up with or even surpass their more talented peers.

Valsalva maneuver!

Very useful, except it’s the lateral head of the deltoid and not the medial head. Medial = close to the midline of the body. If a medial deltoid existed, it would be in the armpit.

Hey. I am a coach and a powerlifter. How should I transition to free movement?

I am here!

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Aand can you name a paper about that fifth quad muscle please. Purely out of curiosity I ask.

You didn't cover the adductors (and muscles around the groin?)

I liked starcraft way too much. I'm ready to learn this movement stuff.

At minutes 6:19 in talking about the lats . You saying I g your arm down is extension. I am confused ; I thought that bringing our body in towards a fetal state was flexion please clarify.

Very good to review the basics. But i think that it is important to know different role of subscapularis and supraspinatus. From what i know, subscapularis acts as internal rotator and supraspinatus helps abducting the humerus. Great job besides that!

What race did you play? I'm picturing zerg

I'm also short 5'4 on a good day Do you think it's easier for short people to practice acrobatics? Things like cartwheels, backflip and so on

What is about Inversion and Exversion? :D

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Good Video. Just one thing, genetics really play an important roll in sports. Most obvious thing is speed, which gives you an huge advantage. But also the work capacity is on a very basic level determined by your genes and by the way you lived as a child. For every Ronaldo, who puts in a lot of work, you have like 20 or more people, that have the right mindset to do the same but get injured once they try.

im gonna go ahead and say i think theres was a bunch of us relieved that glutes came up to a medical picture rather than your body with the red shading XD aha... but maybe a few disappointed too.

Football is really hard 😆😂😂

Bro share some notes lol