Bare Training Systems

Before: September 2022 ❌  Sciatica Pain ❌  Steady Weight Gain ❌  Kypholordosis ❌  Medications for depression & anxiety ❌  Fearful of injury during physical tasks After: April 2024 ✅ Pain-free ✅ Improved Joint Stacking ✅ Significant Weight Loss ✅ Free of medications for depression & anxiety ✅ No more fear of injury doing physical tasks “Before working with Bare Training/FP, I was in terrible pain and had tried everything-traditional PT, pain medications, massage, chiropractic-but nothing worked. The pain overshadowed everything in my life and I was miserable, just following in the footsteps of friends and family who accepted that aches and pains were just “the way it was.” I spent so much time dealing with, talking about, and thinking about the pain that it was hard to enjoy anything. I was in survival mode with no signs of improvement, feeling hopeless, frustrated, and depressed. I avoided so many things because they were painful or I was afraid of getting injured-physical tasks like lifting and running, even looking in the mirror or wearing fitted clothing. I started feeling better before we even began training. During our initial meeting, I could tell by the questions Paul asked and the way he listened that this was going to be different. I remember feeling very hopeful and wanting to get started right away. Through training, l’ve learned how to think differently, which leads to taking different actions-and those actions led to results. Some changes were very fast, like the reduction in back pain. Once I knew the right way to do things, everything steadily improved. I learn something new in every session and can now evaluate information on my own between sessions. Testimonial continued in comments. 🎵 Song - “Regeneration” by Max LL

Before: July 2022 ❌ Limited Hip Flexion ❌ Lacking Trunk Extension ❌ Limited Shoulder Extension ❌ Relatively Rigid Gait Cycle After: November 2023 ✅ Improved Hip Flexion ✅ Better Trunk Extension ✅ Improved Shoulder Extension ✅ More Elastic Gait Cycle “Exercise has always been important to me, especially since college. My routine consisted of traditional weightlifting 5-6 times a week, focusing on heavy lifting and isolation exercises, rotating through dedicated ‘arm days’ and ‘leg days.’ During this time, I was fortunate not to suffer any injuries, but I didn’t realize I was worsening existing maladaptations and poor movement patterns. I thought isolating one body part was the only way to get a good workout. I also had no understanding of muscle integration or how my body craved more uniform movement. I decided to switch my methodologies and utilize Functional Patterns (FP). Since starting FP, I’ve noticed big improvements in my posture and the way I walk—things I never thought about during all my years of weightlifting. I’ve shifted my focus from the duration and weight of my workouts to improving my posture and gait, and undoing ingrained patterns in my body. Surprisingly, I feel more fatigued and sore after a shorter FP session than after hours of traditional weightlifting—proof that I’m using my muscles more efficiently and effectively, rather than just lifting weights mindlessly. I now move with more fluidity and agility, without pain. My movements feel more integrated and my muscles more connected. I feel healthier, stronger, and more aligned than ever before.” #fpresults #functionalpatterns #results #health #regeneration #sanity #fitness

Before: May 2021 ❌ Scoliotic Curve, Rib Shift Left ❌ Hip Compression/Jarring ❌ Internally Rotated L. Foot ❌ Lacking Arm Drive ❌ Plantar Fasciitis Pain ❌ Lower Back Pain ❌ Shoulder Pain After: January 2022 ✅ Improved Scoliotic Curve ✅ More Stable Hips/Less Jarring ✅ Improved External Rotation L. Foot ✅ Improved Arm Drive ✅ Plantar Fasciitis pain down 70-80% ✅ Lower back pain down to a 1 or less ✅ Shoulder pain down about 80% #fpresults #functionalpatterns #results #health #regeneration #sanity #fitness #pain #scoliosis

@functionalpatterns @fp.certified Human Biomechanics Specialist Course Level 1 currently going down at our @projectfunction HQ in Las Vegas These courses are the spark that leads to an internal fire in the lives of those who take them. That fire begins to devour all preconceived notions of what it means to live and move as a healthy human. They leave the participants with a practical approach to life and training that allows them to lead their clients and communities towards perpetual progress. Our system is the only system that leads with results. We are a people before profit company and we make sure you know this by presenting our @fp.evidence There’s a ton of frauds in this world. We aim to shine a light on the principles that help you get most out of this life. It’s amazing to see humans from all over the world coming together under one vision and goal. More gain, less pain. #functionalpatterns #fpisthestandard #fpcertified #biomechanics

@functionalpatterns Most people don’t fail from doing too little. They fail from doing too much of the wrong things. Jeane came into this as a classic high performer. Executive level, structured, disciplined, the kind of person who wakes up at 4am because that’s what success is supposed to look like. Always doing, always pushing, always checking the boxes. From the outside it looks solid. Under the surface, things were breaking down. All that effort wasn’t moving her forward. It was wearing her out. Her doctor flagged declining bone density and put medication on the table. That’s usually where the story goes. More intervention, more management, more chasing symptoms. She didn’t take that route. Instead, she shifted her attention. Not to doing more, but to doing what actually matters. She started focusing on her structure, on how her body organizes under gravity, on how force moves through her when she stands, walks, and trains. Less noise, more signal. That’s where things changed. Her body started responding the way it’s supposed to when the inputs make sense. She didn’t just avoid medication. She improved her bone density in three separate areas. That’s not random. That’s what happens when load is distributed through the system the right way, when tension is organized instead of scattered. This is the part most people miss. They think results come from effort alone. More reps, more sweat, more grind. But if the structure is off, all that effort just compounds the problem. It’s like pouring force into a frame that can’t handle it. Something gives. Jean didn’t need more effort. She needed better inputs. When you clean that up, the body stops fighting you. It starts adapting in a way that actually holds up over time. That’s the difference between chasing outcomes and building them. Shout out to Jeane for sitting down with us after her @fp.certified HBS 1 course. Let’s go! This is only the beginning. #functionalpatterns #fpisthestandard #projectfunction #fpcertified #bonedensity

@functionalpatterns Most people call it laziness, but that label misses what’s actually happening. From a behavioral standpoint, it’s not a lack of effort, it’s reinforcement. People repeat what gives them immediate feedback. A stretch feels good, so they keep stretching. A workout burns, so they think it’s working. Comfort gets rewarded, even when it leads nowhere. So when you ask someone to give things up, whether it’s passive stretching, yoga as a fix, or habits that don’t translate to real movement, you’re not just changing behavior. You’re taking away what their system has been trained to rely on. That’s why they resist. The shift happens when the focus moves from the work to the outcome. Not “why do I have to stop this,” but “what does this actually get me?” A body that holds up. The ability to move, to take care of people, to exist without constant breakdown. That’s a different feedback loop you want. What we do is change what you pay attention to. Posture over sensation. Movement quality over fatigue. Long term function over short term relief. If you still think strength is just moving weight, or posture is forcing yourself into position, you’re reinforcing the wrong system. That path runs out eventually. And when it does, that’s usually when people find us. If you want to skip all that pain, start here instead of being forced to come here. Great work by the following @fp.certified trainers @jessa_steinman @tamara_schwarzfischer Joanna Shallcross Cheng Jui-Kai #functionalpatterns #fpisthestandard #posture #projectfunction #laziness

Repost @fp.dublin Check out a recent client testimonial from @paulchristin . Current HF practitioner soon to be Human Biomechanics Specialist, Paul has been training with me online over the last couple of years. In this clip he excellently articulates some the benefits he has found using @functionalpatterns . A huge advocate for the system and all around top traininer, it has been a huge pleasure connecting with him. We have had a very limited amount of sessions, one every couple of months, but even with limited contact he has made some great progress. This is more a testament to him and his ability to self improve than anything I could have ever thought him. Credit to @theleverking for a creating a system that gives people the tools to truly begin to understand their body and make positive changes. Paul is a great example of what an FP practitioner should be and I’m excited to see him progress even more when he enters the HBS curriculum. Anyone in the Connecticut area be sure to look this man up. #functionalpatterns #biomechanics #posture #training #strength

@functionalpatterns The way you maintain youth isn’t by chasing effort, it’s by preserving coordination, timing, and rebound. When that’s there, movement feels light. When it’s gone, everything gets heavy. Balance, elastic recoil, and structural tensity aren’t just performance traits. They’re markers of health. Think about it like this. If you saw a 120 year old sprinting and hitting a clean rebound off the ground, you wouldn’t need bloodwork to tell you they’re healthy. You’d see it immediately in how they move. What we usually see with age is the opposite. People get flatter. They lose pressure through the system. Force goes in and doesn’t come back out. That’s not just aging, that’s a loss of organization. Some people get away with it longer. The genetic outliers. The ones who already have good sequencing. But most people aren’t that. Most people need to build it. If you don’t understand how to organize your body first, and you just jump into lifting, sprinting, or random workouts, you reinforce the same inefficiencies. You don’t build elasticity, you compress it. That’s why you can walk into any gym and see people moving weight all day, but almost no one who can actually bounce, sprint, or redirect force cleanly. Training should bring you back to that. Gait mechanics. Standing. Tensegrity. Learning how to load and release through the whole system. That’s what keeps you from going flat. Traditional Stretching and Fitness 🔴 poor balance and instability 🔴 force gets absorbed but not returned 🔴 disconnected upper and lower body 🔴 movement feels heavy and slow FP Sprint Based Training ✅ elastic recoil through the system ✅ coordinated timing and rhythm ✅ balance that holds under movement ✅ force gets redirected, not lost Shout out to @_pablo_martin__ for the ball bounce example and @_kathy_alvarez_ for the movement demonstration. #functionalpatterns #fpisthestandard #projectfunction #elastic #bounce

@functionalpatterns Most people dealing with what Jazz had don’t start by looking at their structure, they look for relief. Painkillers to quiet the headaches, caffeine to push through the fatigue, something to help them sleep when their body won’t settle down. It feels like you’re doing something, but none of it changes the system creating the problem. Jazz had the full stack. Scoliosis, scapular dyskinesis, chronic pain, low energy, anxiety that made consistency tough early on. The usual route would’ve been managing symptoms and hoping for the best. Instead, she went after the source. She committed to a biomechanics driven approach with @functionalpatterns and @projectfunction That means reorganizing how the body handles load, how the spine stacks, how the scapula moves, how much compression she lives under daily. Not chasing symptoms, but changing the inputs that create them. Over time, the structure changed. Less lordosis and lumbar compression, better thoracic positioning, improved scapular mechanics, more decompression through the system. When the structure changes, everything downstream starts to shift with it. That’s when the real results show up. Not just looking better, but living different. ❌ Headaches/migraines 9–10 ❌ Face pain/head pressure 9–10 ❌ Neck/shoulder/trap pain 8–9 ❌ Back pain limiting daily movement 6 ❌ Fatigue/poor recovery 8–9 ❌ Low mood/weekly breakdowns 8–9 ❌ Bloating 7–8 ✅ Headaches/migraines → 1 ✅ Face pain/head pressure → 4 ✅ Neck/shoulder/trap pain → 3 ✅ Back pain → 1–0 ✅ Fatigue/recovery → 3–4 ✅ Mental health → 3 ✅ Bloating → ~4 When you address the body properly, the mental state follows. When you only chase the mental or mask symptoms, the body stays the same and the cycle repeats. Great work here by @chrisfarnworth_ If you’re dealing with similar issues, don’t wait around hoping it fixes itself. The longer those compensations sit, the deeper they set. #functionalpatterns #fpisthestandard #projectfunction #anxiety #migrainerelief

@_pablo_martin__ People often look at hypertension and assume it’s only about clogged arteries, but it’s more complex than that. Yes, plaque buildup can narrow the vessel and increase resistance, but pressure in the system is also heavily influenced by lifestyle behaviors, stress, poor sleep, diet quality, fluid balance, and the stiffness of the vessel walls over time.  The vessels don’t exist in isolation. They’re running through a living structure. The body around them, muscle tone, connective tissue, fascial density, breathing mechanics, posture, and how well the body manages gravity all influence how efficiently blood moves through the system. While local tissue compression is not considered the main medical cause of systemic hypertension, poor movement mechanics and chronic compression can absolutely make regional circulation less efficient and add more mechanical stress to the system. That’s where behavior and body function start feeding each other. A dysfunctional body often drives dysfunctional behavior. When someone is in pain, compressed, fatigued, and under chronic stress, they’re more likely to crave short-term relief, poor food choices, inactivity, stimulants, or other behaviors that keep the cycle going. In that sense, dysfunction tends to feed dysfunction. Better movement, better breathing, and less compression can help make better decisions easier to sustain. #functionalpatterns #fpisthestandard #projectfunction #biomechanics #hypertension

@functionalpatterns Long before fascia became a buzzword, we were applying these principles to build a system that produces real, measurable results through movement. In our recent interview with Thomas Myers from @anatomytrainsofficial , we discussed how much of the industry is still 10+ years behind these concepts. One of the most important traits we can train in the body is elasticity. Elasticity is how our muscles, and especially fascia, absorb force, store it, and release it through movements like walking, running, and jumping. This is what is referred to as elastic recoil, the body’s ability to load energy into the tissues and release it like a spring. It gives you spring in your step, resilience in your joints, and longevity in how you move. The problem is most training does not develop this quality, and some of it actively degrades it over time. Take cycling, for example. Because the body is constrained to the motion of the bike, you are not getting the impact that comes from moving on your feet. Over time, this shifts the body toward becoming more muscle-bound in the wrong areas, which causes the joints and connective tissue to lose access to their full range of motion with balanced tension. To put it simply, if your training does not reinforce how you move as a human. That means standing, walking, running, and throwing. You are not building a more capable body, you are reinforcing limitations. We don’t just train muscles, we train how the entire system works together. This is how you build strength that lasts. #functionalpatterns #fascia #functionaltraining #anatomytrains

@functionalpatterns If you want a body that moves well into old age, understand this. Movement isn’t driven by muscles alone. Your body is a connected myofascial system where muscles and fascia work together to distribute tension, store energy, and transfer force through the entire body. Every time you move, forces are transmitted through tensional networks, not just individual muscles pulling on bones. Movement is not just about producing force, it is about how well you can load, store, and release that force through the system. This is elastic recoil, the body’s ability to absorb energy into the tissues and release it like a spring. This is what gives animals and humans that spring in their step, and it is especially present in motions like walking and running where gait cycle mechanics are at play. When this system is not trained, movement becomes heavy, inefficient, and disconnected. If your training does not address this, you are reinforcing compensation patterns that leak force and eventually lead to injury. If you want to go deeper into this type of training, every action has to relate back to how you stand, walk, run, and throw. It is not enough to know fascia exists. You have to train in a way that actually organizes tension across the entire body. That is where the @rg_bar_ changes the game. Because you are standing, rotating, pressing, spiraling, and driving force through the ground, it lets you train power the way the body actually delivers it. More importantly, the leverage based design places the load farther away from your body, increasing torque and loading demands through the entire system. That means your body has to organize force from the feet up through the hips, trunk, and upper body, exactly how real movement works. That is how you train elastic recoil. That is how you build strength that actually carries over into your everyday life. Train intentionally, not habitually. #functionalpatterns #rgbar #functionaltraining #fascia #elasticrecoil