In physical training there are many different characteristics to condition, from Strength to Endurance, from Articular Mobility to Coordination, Balance, Stabilisation, Speed, Power. Although they are all important, all too often, for the sake of simplicity, we focus on the abilities most closely related to the goal to be achieved, and neglect all the others. This applies to Articular Mobility, for example, but also to another characteristic that affects every person's training: the 'semi-unknown' Proprioception.

The word alone would lead one to avoid it, but even for the most daring and extreme connoisseurs of physical training is often reduced to the mere use of unstable tabletswhich are called 'proprioceptive tablets' (as if they were inherent in nature). Even more serious is training with protocols of Functional Training but neglecting theproprioceptive trainingor by reducing it to exercises that, rather than Functional Training, become purely folkloric exhibitions: in addition to not improving any physical capacity, this type of approach does nothing but create dys-functional neuro-muscular and postural adaptations, since they do not take into account the motor biomechanics of the human body.

Each programme of Functional Training worthy of the name must aim to make rediscovering the neuro-motor potential of the person training. This necessarily goes through the construction of the body awareness in each Movement performed during training. In a nutshell, this is done through the construction of the Proprioceptionor:

The ability to perceive and control one's body in space in real time, within the construction of 'biomechanically clean' and progressively more complex neuro-motor patterns.

The development of proprioception is part of what is defined as the conditioning of Co-ordination Skillswhich in turn are fundamental to the increase of all the Conditional Capacities (Strength, Speed, Power and Endurance) of a person, whether an athlete or a simple amateur. The development of the Co-ordination Capabilities must follow a precise progressive order, ranging from the construction of the General Coordination, to the Special Coordination where the proprioceptive system plays a fundamental role, up to the Specific Coordinationwhich is decisive in the refined technical execution of the various sports.

In the following video the WTA Senior Coach Evgenia Babrovskaia presents theProprietary training with the Flowbag.

Although the development of the Coordination and the attached Proprioception is fundamental in building the foundation of each person, it should not be forgotten that even before that comes the construction of the Articular MobilityThis is an indispensable condition for ensuring a posturally correct structure on which to implant and consolidate increasingly diversified and complex neuro-motor patterns over time.

This is where the Flowbagwhich, thanks to its characteristic constitution of bag containing waterobliges the person to the continuous control of the tool itself in increasingly complex and unstable trajectories of movementresulting in a constant proprioceptive conditioning and of global stabilisation from the Core (central core of the body).

In practical terms, the Flowbag Training (as well as other WTA Functional Training System such as the Flying Suspension Trainingthe Kettlebell Training or the Clubs Training), requiring in each exercise first a perfect postural controland then the continuous control of the body centre of gravity along all trajectories of movement, allows the construction of a highly functional proprioception to everyday movements and all sports motor patterns, which differs from traditional proprioceptive work on unstable tablets. The latter is in fact disconnected from the motor patterns whose functions need to be recovered or increased, as it does not allow the association of evolved and reproducible motor patterns in the practice of real everyday and sporting neuro-motor patterns.

Training with the Flowbag can be the keystone of the true global multiplanar proprioceptive trainingbut only with an optimal knowledge of exercise technique in full respect of the body's biomechanics, and functional training programming, can its extraordinary characteristics be optimised.