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Devrath Vijay: Animal flow is a body-weight movement that focuses on transition
Updated On: 14 April, 2021 08:39 AM IST | Mumbai | Sonia Lulla
When recuperating from COVID-19, Varun Dhawan turned to animal flow, a body-weight movement discipline. It is one of many unconventional fitness forms, like silambam and aqua therapy, that Bollywood’s famous are exploring
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Varun Dhawan practiced animal flow to regain his strength post COVID-19
Devrath Vijay admits that when Varun Dhawan was tackling COVID-19, “he was in a pretty bad state”. Testing negative for the virus after weeks was only one part of the battle. “He had told me that what people don’t realise about this disease is that following the week or two of isolation, recovery is also compromised. In the initial few days that we began training, the hours that we could put in were dramatically reduced,” says Vijay, the man responsible for teaching Dhawan the animal flow routine that has caught the attention of netizens. Dhawan is among the early proponents of the movement pattern that aims to replicate the way animals move.
“Animal flow is a body-weight movement discipline that [focuses] on transitions, and the positions you acquire when you are on all fours [palms and knees]. It drives attention to the muscles rarely targeted during traditional training. Flexibility enables you to increase muscle length. But this format also enhances mobility, and the ability to transition from one movement into another. One strengthens muscles and the joints in the end range [maximally stretched], and then trains them to facilitate movement directly. It gave us the opportunity to improve his movement quality, because he needed an athletic build for his next, Bhediya.”
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