Another day in the Monkey Gym

A quick glimpse of a recent Tuesday evening training session at the Monkey Gym, Australian National University. We are experimenting with playing, basically—and finding out how we can make adults stronger, more agile, and as efficient as possible.

Our work emphasises true functional strength: we want to stay as close as possible to the centre of a 'conceptual triangle' whose corners are 'strength', 'aerobic fitness', and 'range of movement', because we have found that in most people, gaining advantage in one of these qualities usually decreases one or both of the others.

As Ruby Rodd said (in "The Fifth Element", when asked to 'Assume the position'), "I don't want one position; I want all positions!" That's our position.

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Howto & Style

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• Agility
• strength
• Monkey Gym
• Stretch Therapy
• Australian National University
• Overcome neck & back pain
• Stretching & Flexibility
• Kit Laughlin