Women's Fitness

BASIC INSTINCT

Animal flow, paleo fitness… chances are, you’ve heard of primal exercise. It’s the term given to a collection of moves that work your body in different planes – push, pull, squat, lunge, bend, twist and travel. This is important because we spend so much time moving one way – forwards.

‘Every movement your body performs can be broken down into a series of basic patterns, referred to as the seven primal movements,’ says personal trainer Emily Furey, who has just launched her Fi7ness

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