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When I first started the 10 week online course I had no idea what was about to change in my life. I was suffering from i...
05/23/2026

When I first started the 10 week online course I had no idea what was about to change in my life. I was suffering from intense anxiety at the time, unable to do basic things without overthinking and getting totally stressed out - which has completely gone away after completing the program.

It sounds crazy, but here’s why that happened:

Trauma is stored in tissues - whether physical or emotional. Your tense, rounded shoulders, forward head posture, shallow breathing pattern, rib flare, locked knees, all of this is related to what’s going on in your head. But not the way you think.

Are your rounded shoulders are caused by having too much to bear in your life, or do your rounded shoulders make it hard to bear all that is going on?

I’d say it’s the latter.

When your body is in this chronic state of stress and poor posture, your brain adapts to that. It’s put on overdrive to hold your body together while everything else falls apart.

Of course, diet also play a part. The interesting thing to note though - I was on an anti inflammatory diet long before doing Functional Patterns. FP is what made the change for me.

I could go on for hours about all of this, but if you can take away one thing it’s that your body is more influential than your mind. If you fix your body, you’ll fix your mind, not the other way around.

05/19/2026

The way you stand, walk, run and throw affect the way you handle stress 🏃🏻‍♀️ If your joints are grinding, tendons sliding, and muscles are tense, especially when you’re just walking or standing, your brain is going to be working double time 🤯

Mechanotransduction is the process in which mechanical forces placed on the body are converted into biochemical and neurological signals 🧬 This can drive tissue adaptation and cellular behaviour, but it also affects mental health 🧠

This happens because a huge portion of brain activity is used on proprioception; figuring out where your body is in space ⚙️

When the body is constantly operating from distorted movement patterns, excessive tension, collapse, or asymmetry, the nervous system receives those signals continuously 💥 Over time, this can influence stress perception, emotional regulation, breathing patterns, energy levels, and even how safe or threatened the body feels 😣

Your psychology is not separate from your biomechanics. The brain is always interpreting the state of the body, and the body is always shaping the state of the mind. 🧘🏻‍♀️

DM me if you’ve tried everything for your mental health and are still stuck - I’ll get you out of that rut if you’re willing to put in the work - Trust me, I did it myself 🙏🏻

05/13/2026

Functional Patterns doesn’t hide behind smoke and mirrors. It’s straight to work on day one.

A lot of “science-backed” marketing bends the truth to fit a narrative. A study might claim medications reduce heart attacks, for example, by 36%, which sounds massive, but that’s often “relative risk”, which shows how much risk changed proportionally between two groups, often making small actual differences sound much larger.

Or a study claims an exercise is “effective,” but it was only tested on high-level athletes over a few weeks.

That doesn’t tell you what happens over years of repetitive loading, compensation patterns, or wear and tear on the body. Athletes can often perform well despite dysfunction because they’re operating on talent, youth, pain tolerance, and adaptation.

The real question isn’t, “Did performance improve temporarily?” It’s, “What happens to the joints, gait, spine, and movement quality long term? Can the body sustain it without breaking down?”

Functional Patterns doesn’t rely on fancy terminology to convince you. The results are visible in how people move, feel, perform, and recover.

You either move better or you don’t. You either get out of pain or you don’t. You either perform more efficiently or you don’t.

Reality doesn’t need marketing.

05/11/2026

Notice how Zhang Weili throws her punches. The movement starts from rotation in the hips first, then transfers through the torso into the fist. That sequencing not only reduces telegraphing, it increases force production and efficiency.

So how do you emulate this?

When we’re talking about millimetres, we need to train in millimetres. Small, intentional adjustments performed slowly create the neuromuscular coordination needed for speed and explosiveness under pressure.

You can’t build efficient power on top of compensation patterns. Precision comes first. Then speed becomes usable.

05/09/2026

A punch is not generated just by the arm.

It begins with the body’s interaction with the ground. Force transfers through the feet, pelvis, to the upper body, and finally into the hand.

That sequencing is what creates explosiveness and efficient force transfer behind a punch.

When the body rotates out of order - over rotating the shoulders, being disconnected from the pelvis, or relying mostly on the upper body - energy leaks occur and power drops.

Watch high-level strikers and you’ll notice how well organized their rotational mechanics are under speed.

Functional Patterns breaks these movement sequences into smaller components that transfer into striking mechanics.

05/07/2026

Most athletes don’t retire because they get weaker. They retire because their mechanics stop distributing force efficiently under load.

Your body adapts to how you load it, not just how much you load it.

When movement is inefficient, stress concentrates in the same tissues over and over. Strength doesn’t fix that. It often amplifies it.

Longevity in sport comes from usable force production: not just output, but how that output is organized through the system.

Athletes who last don’t waste energy in compensation. They express force cleanly enough that their tissues can keep up with the demand.

Strength matters. But structure determines how long it lasts.

05/06/2026

The goal isn’t just to get stronger, it’s to waste less energy being alive. Every step and rep is an input. Bad mechanics lead to bad signals, then tissue adapts the wrong way. Good mechanics lead to clean signals, then tissue organizes efficiently. That process is mechanotransduction. Functional Patterns is upgrading the signal you feed your body.

04/16/2026

Train heavy. Low reps. High intent. The difference is where the strength goes. builds strength that transfers.

04/07/2026

Fix the structure and the function follows. Most people are trying to “boost” lymph flow without fixing the system it runs through. If your fascia is stiff, dehydrated, and bound up, flow gets restricted. Loosen it, then move properly, and the flow will follow. Lymph moves from pressure, rhythm, and coordinated full-body motion.

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