The system was created by Mike Fitch in 2010. The concept is simple: instead of isolating a muscle group and lifting weight, you move like a network in a single bundle - wrists, shoulders, back, abdomen, hips, legs - all at once. For someone who sits eight hours a day in front of a computer, it is almost therapeutic. For someone who thinks fitness is just running and push-ups, it is a surprise.

Its structure has six components: joint mobilisations, activations, targeted stretches, forms for displacement, transitions and flows - fluid sequences in which movements flow into one another. When you watch it, it looks like a mix of gymnastics, breakdance and parkour. When you try it, it feels like the first day in a gym for a seven-year-old who thinks it is going to be easy.

According to Amaya León, an expert in beauty and fitness, the method is „super effective" for the abdomen, back, arms and shoulders - and at the same time fun, which is rare in the category of exercises that demand tension across the whole body. And it is precisely that tension that is the point: not a single movement is in a comfortable position. The whole body carries and works at the same time.

The method's marketing promises everything - better mobility, flexibility, strength, power, endurance, coordination. But what is really interesting is the test: when you do the animal forms, your body shows where there is no strength, where there is no stability, where the imbalances of years of sitting have hidden. There is no lying - the floor doesn't allow it.

In the Balkans, the fitness industry still revolves around weights and running tracks. Animal Flow will look to many like something New York will charge 80 dollars a session for - and they will be right, that is what it looks like. But the method asks for nothing. A space as big as a mat, a time as long as 20 minutes, and a body that until now thought it was in shape. The floor does the rest.