General introduction to the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

This video provides an overview of what Bear Essentials is about and the benefits of being fit for life.

The caveat, disclaimer, or legal warning for the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program, explaining potential risks associated with exercise, and precautions and steps that users can take before beginning an exercise program. These videos are for education and fun. Follow a...

An overview of the steps and videos the user will follow in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program. Basically, it’s what you can expect as you follow the program.

Simple finger and hand strengthening exercise to help support and engage the wrist. This is a foundational skill for the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

Be the Bear. Learn how to do pushups safely and correctly so you can build strength needed for other movements. Learn modifications and progressions to help you develop the skill and get stronger. Pushups are a foundational skill for the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Progr...

Be the Bear. Learn how to sit on your shins and toes to increase the range of motion in your knees and work your toes. This is a foundational skill for the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

Learn to do squats properly, engaging the gluteous muscles (glutes) and hips, by first learning shin squats as a foundational skill in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.
Music By Erica Van Drunen

This simple core exercise is very effective to strengthen the core and protect the back and spine. It is based on the principles of spine health by Stuart McGill. Core strength is foundational to movement and fitness and a foundational skill in the Real Motion Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fit...

This yoga chair exercise helps to increase mobility in the hips and flexibility in the back while strengthening the core muscles.

If you want to improve your golf game or any activity, flexible and strong hips and core muscles, along with a stronger shoulders and arms will help you. This stre...

Hip mobility and flexibility are vital to movement and independence. The hip warmup and prepares you for the Shin Box Sit, or the Z-Sit, which helps to increase hip flexibility. The Shin Box Sit is a foundational skill in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

From the Shin Box Sit position, we progress to a Shin Box Squat motion working the hips, gluteus and core muscles. This is a foundational skill in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

From the Shin Box Sit position, we work on hip and leg mobility and strength by moving the legs out and in.

This is a foundational skill in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

Increase hip flexibility and core strength by working through the kneeling side sit.

Hip mobility is a foundational skill in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

In this video we progress from the sitting squats to a standing squat.

Squats are not knee bends. If you do knee bends you put a lot of pressure and strain on the knees. If you do squats properly, they are easy and safe for the knees.

Learn how to do a standing squat properly as a foundat...

Learn how to do a variety of lunges properly and safely. Lunges are a foundational skill in life and that's why they are included in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

Potty Squats are the deep knee bend done to be close to the ground. This is the position used by many in the world for doing work, or going to the bathroom.
All the work we've done so far in the shin sitting and squats lead into this foundational skill and exercise.

A reach-back movement is added to the Potty Squat, adding challenge, increasing mobility, and working your entire body. This is a foundational skill in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

Increase the strength and flexibility of the feet and toes as you learn how to crouch on your toes and safely move to the ground and stand up. This is a foundational skill in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

Move from the Toe Crouch into a Quad Squat, working the hands, arms, legs, feet, and core. Learn to shift your weight over your 4 appendages. This is foundational training in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

Combine the Quad Squat with a pushup to increase upper body and lower body strength, mobility and coordination. This is a foundational skill in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

Progress through the Quad Squat into a side sit to increase hip mobility, and upper body and core strength.

Progress from the Quad Squat Side Sit to putting one leg out under you as you sit. It gets faster and then you do the challenge move.

This is a foundational skill in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

Music: Aqua Dreams, by Erica Van Drunen

From the Quad Squat position, learn to shift each leg out to the side as you shift your weight from your feet to your hands and back. This is a foundational skill in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.

Get into a Quad Squat from a standing position and back up safely in a fluid motion that's easy on the knees. This is a foundational skill in the Real Motion™ Bear Essentials Natural Movement Fitness Program.
Music by Erica Van Drunen