Project Function

Pieter came in with chronic back pain that had been sitting at a 7 to 8 out of 10 for years. He had already tried the usual route, CrossFit, osteopaths, chiropractors, Pilates, and nothing held. Old rugby injuries left him dealing with recurring disc issues that would completely take him out, and structurally he was stuck in an anterior hip shift with functional scoliosis, lumbar protrusions, and visible scapular winging. His system wasn’t transferring force well, so every attempt to “stay active” just kept feeding the problem. Between June 2025 and April 2026, training just 2 to 3 times per month, we focused on reorganizing his structure from the ground up. As his posture improved, the shearing forces through his lumbar spine started to drop, his scapula began to anchor better, and his gait became more efficient. Now he reports a brief 2 to 3 out of 10 stiffness for about 30 minutes after waking, then 0 out of 10 pain for the rest of the day. His spine presents far more neutral, the protrusions and winging have reduced significantly, and he’s added muscle in a way that actually supports his movement. This is what happens when you stop chasing symptoms and start rebuilding how the body moves. Before ❌ Chronic back pain 7 to 8 out of 10 Frequent disc issues, easily flared up Anterior hip shift causing lumbar shear Functional scoliosis and scapular winging Limited, inefficient gait mechanics After ✅ Pain reduced to 0 out of 10 most of the day Minimal morning stiffness only Improved spinal alignment and reduced protrusions Scapula better anchored and integrated Stronger, more efficient walking pattern Great work here by @chrisfarnworth_ If your structure is off, no amount of random exercise will fix it. Build the system, then express it. #functionalpatterns #fpisthestandard #projectfunction #scoliosis #herniateddisc

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

For a lot of people, yoga hasn’t been the answer, it’s been part of the problem. We keep seeing people come in after years, sometimes decades, of daily practice only to be left with more pain, more instability, and less ability to move well. The issue is that flexibility without the ability to generate usable tension through the whole body leaves people with range but no structure. If your body can’t organize tension to move you through space, that tension often turns into compression instead. Instead of movement giving you freedom, your body starts learning how to hold itself in place, and over time that can become its own prison. Sharon’s case is a perfect example. She had been doing yoga almost daily since age 15, with constant hip openers and flexibility work, yet she came in with debilitating hip pain, shoulder pain, poor gait mechanics, and a body that was breaking down despite all the effort. We make these posts for the people who already feel something isn’t right, the ones who’ve been told for years that more stretching and more opening is the answer, while internally they can feel the damage accumulating. If that’s you, this is for you. ❌ Before (Feb 2023) ❌ Hip pain 10/10 ❌ Shoulder pain 8/10 ❌ Kypho-lordosis ❌ Rib compression ❌ Hyperextended knees ❌ Low muscle tone ❌ Gait dysfunction, unable to walk or run without pain ❌ Poor core pressure and glute engagement ✅ After (June 2025) ✅ Hip pain eliminated ✅ Shoulder pain eliminated ✅ Improved kypho-lordosis ✅ Decompressed rib cage ✅ Neutral knees ✅ Increased muscle gains ✅ Able to sprint with no pain ✅ Improved core pressure and glute engagement ✅ Better overall sequencing This is what happens when the body stops being trained to collapse into positions and starts being trained to organize force through movement. This is where people start getting their lives back. Great work here by @claudia.e.ponce @fp.merced #functionalpatterns #fpisthestandard #projectfunction #yoga #pilates

From Tom: Spending a day in Naudi Aguilar’s unique gym that reflects his Project Function approach. The triangle refers back to Korsybski and general semantics (one of Ida Rolf’s influences), the triangle of meaning. And, as an advocate of project-based bodywork, I appreciate the emphasis on developmental, strategic training. I’m learning a lot and my TLJ is definitely moving better.

When you click on this page, most just see fitness. We see real social change. If we want change in this world, it has to start with people. We are a people first business. These are our results. This is Prokop, 25 years old, living with severe spastic cerebral palsy. When started working with @peter__tibensky in June 2023, he could not stand on his own. We only had seated photos because standing was not an option. Sitting required his right arm for support. Walking meant his mom doing most of the work. She anchored every step. There was no hip extension, no forward propulsion from his side, no real stability. Just assistance. With the bars, his left hand could not grip properly. He could not use his index finger and palm together. He relied on his index and middle finger as his only option to create some form of grasp. Getting up and down from a box was slow and heavily supported by his arms. It was arm strength moving his body, not his legs. He wore a brace all day, every day, for almost a decade. Now look at the shift. Before ❌ Could not stand independently ❌ Could not sit without right arm support ❌ Walking only possible with his mom essentially carrying the movement ❌ No hip extension or forward propulsion ❌ Unsafe to use a walker ❌ Severe spastic grip on left hand ❌ Movement driven almost entirely by arms ❌ Wore a brace daily for nearly 10 years After ✅ Sits on a normal chair with no support for extended periods ✅ Scapulae visibly more decompressed ✅ Walks several meters with a walker independently ✅ Walks with light support beside him, which was once unreal ✅ Improved hip anchoring and leg driven movement ✅ Left hand grip now functional and close to normal ✅ Faster, more agile transitions up and down using his legs ✅ Brace completely removed and has not worn it for nearly a year Not every win shows up on camera. But the day to day changes are real. More independence. More confidence. More control. This is what happens when you treat the person, not just the diagnosis. Change is possible. And it can start with you. #functionalpatterns #fpisthestandard #projectfunction #cerebralpalsyawareness #cerebralpalsy

Emma did what many people are told to do. She committed to yoga, thinking it would improve her strength and posture. She stayed consistent for over three years. But even in class, her instructor would look around the room and ask why everyone looked crooked. No one had an explanation. No one had a plan to actually change it. The goal was “better posture,” yet the people practicing it week after week still looked visibly off. Emma started to realize something was not adding up. Despite all that time and effort, her body was not becoming more organized. She still had imbalances, and pain slowly became part of her normal. The system she trusted to fix her posture could see the problem, but had no real solution for it. Then she started FP training with @rolly__lin Within six months, she began noticing real changes in both strength and posture. Movements that once felt unstable started to feel supported. Areas that used to fatigue easily began to hold their position with less effort. Her progress showed up in daily life too. While taking piano lessons, she had always been told her hands were weak. Even without practicing much, her hand strength improved through FP training once a week. Tasks that used to feel physically limiting started to change. She can now lift her motorcycle onto its center stand by herself, something she could not do before and often needed help with. Supporting her mother during hospital visits used to bring shoulder discomfort and pain. Now she can stabilize her body well enough to help without that pain building up. Before training 2022/12/05 ❌Shoulder pain 3/10 ❌Neck pain 3/10 ❌Rib eversion ❌Knee hyperextension ❌Winged scapula ❌Anterior pelvic shift After training 2023/05/23 ✅Shoulder pain 0/10 ✅Neck pain 0/10 ✅Joint stacking improved ✅Improved Knee positioning ✅Scapular stability ✅Stable Pelvis #functionalpatterns #fpisthestandard #projectfunction #posture #anteriorpelvictilt

If you haven’t used the @vectortrainer yet, it’s a solid option if your body feels tight or stuck inside your body. This is obviously a much more advanced exercise, but this is one of many scalable movements you can do with it to make you mobile and strong at the same time. This new game changing machine applies resistance in two directions at the same time, spreading load instead of forcing it into a single joint. When you find the right pressure points and move through them, restricted areas start to open up, movement feels smoother, and your body feels better. This same principle shows up across the other machines in our facility. If you’re in the Las Vegas area and want to check out a new training ecosystem that’s changing how people approach fitness, send us a DM.

PROJECT FUNCTION MORGAN HILL, CALIFORNIA 📣🎊 @projectfunction.morganhill We’re excited to welcome our newest franchisee in Morgan Hill. A full Project Function experience is now officially available, including our membership-based model built around proprietary gym equipment and additional services. 🏃 Along with memberships, this location will offer 1:1 sessions, assessments, and specialized PF services designed to rebuild your mechanics, strengthen muscle, and rehab your joints all at the same time. 🛠️ If you’re in the area and looking to access a Project Function, head to @projectfunction.morganhill for updates, enrollment details, and opening announcements. “Exercise Intentionally, Not Habitually.” — Naudi Aguilar, Functional Patterns & Project Function Founder #functionalpatterns #projectfunction #functionaltraining

When it comes to decompressing your spine to provide a solution for things like back pain and spinal protrusions then you need to think about the 3 main forces put on your body throughout the day. The main you deal with is gravity, the downward force put on your body. The way our bodies counter act this force is through movement. When we move horizontally from point a to b when walking or running our bodies use horizontal and rotational forces to create upward lift. When you can sprint well your body understands how to turn gravity from a foe to a friend. The movements you see @david__schrader doing in this reel is what placed the right amount of load and force on his body in order for his muscles and fascia to contact in ways that led to new decompression instead of just further compression. It’s the FP exercises that make the changes. These moves took his spine from lacking muscle and poking out of his skin to being held in place by functional muscle. From 7/10 back pain to 2/10 and feeling better and better as he ages. Let’s go! If you have body pains and have never thought about the forces we mentioned above, perhaps it’s time to step your game up. Start doing fitness the right way with @projectfunction @functionalpatterns #functionalpatterns #fpisthestandard #projectfunction #posture #biomechanics #fascia #sprinting #backpain #spinehealth #musclegain

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@trent__hill from @fp_brisbane showing some of the versatility in training you can get from the @rg.bell and @regentrainer From Trent: “From a young age I valued the ability to be able to move athletically. I also wanted to have confidence in my appearance. I decided to make the move into personal training as a profession, and it worked for a while, but eventually I could tell the training I was doing was not addressing any of my asymmetries or dysfunctions. My Pectus excavatum and asymmetrical shoulders were not improving. This is where I started looking for ways to address these issues. The method that stood out to me was Functional Patterns. My goal as a Functional Patterns Trainer is to guide help people to understanding and correct their dysfunctions. I not longer want to see client just “getting a workout in.“ - Trent “Trent is not only knowledgable but clearly cares very much for his patients - taking time during the session to really listen as well as between sessions to come up with new ideas to help. Couldn’t recommend enough :)” - Verified Google Review #functionalpatterns #projectfunction #fpisthestandard #regentrainer #rgbell #fpinnovations