Home Programs
Quite often when people inquire at Functional Patterns Perth they ask if we can give them a program that they can follow at home, possibly because they can’t get in to see us regularly or maybe they see it as a more financially viable option. The short answer is yes, you can purchase the Functional Patterns 10 week online course which is constructed by the founder and CEO of Functional Patterns, Naudi Aguilar and is the best home program on the market - by a long distance too. The course highlights the most common dysfunctions found in humans today and sets the foundations for fixing these dysfunctions. The knowledge it gives of the basic principles and techniques of FP is hugely beneficial when you come in to see a practitioner to tackle these problems at a deeper level.
However this is usually not what the person has in mind. The 10 week course takes time, dedication and provokes thought. Can’t I be given a few exercises specific to my issues that I can do at home? The thought process is understandable given that is how the rest of the industry works. Thankfully Functional Patterns stands alone from the rest of the industry in it’s methods and its results. It is not the exercise that will bring about the change in your structure, more so it is the precise APPLICATION of each exercise. This precision in executing a movement, along with the amount of variables being accounted for, is usually what astonishes the client the most when they start working with a practitioner. To think that we could create that in a personalised home program for everyone would be wildly ambitious.
Think about it this way, if you have chronically ‘tight’ hip flexor muscles, meaning those muscles are constantly contracted or shortened, then every movement you do whether it be walking or doing an exercise at home will be done using your hip flexors. Learning how to create length in those muscles without compensating in other areas, whilst also trying to account for many other issues going on in the body takes a great level of precision which is why the 10 week course is the only home program we recommend to our clients.
Remember this is not about just moving in a different fashion, we are actively trying to solve problems. To do so, the fundamentals need to be rock solid and can never be practiced enough.