“I’ve long used GMB as a supplement to my training in various movement disciplines. Now in my 40’s, I recently got into playing capoeira alongside my 7-year old son. Initially I struggled with the complexity of this martial art, which requires maintaining fluidity and range of motion through various planes of movement. Sequences has provided the boost I needed in my agility, flexibility, and strength. Thanks to this program I am more confident in the roda (the circle in which capoeira is performed), as I am able to more seamlessly link together longer chains of movements.”
“I would and have recommended GMB numeral times and always told people to start with Elements. But I think most of the fun lies in the Vitamin program and because at the time there was no Sequences (or Loco which is fine for that too), I had a bit of a hard time to bridge that gap. So I'd think Sequences is great as a transition between the two and I am having a lot of fun now doing it and Vitamin as my daily dose of skill and flow-work.”
“It’s fun and it will challenge you learning (or improving) new cool moves and combos… al the while improving how you move, flexibility, coordination and have fun with it … enjoyed elements? Go for it, believe this is the right next step into the GMB world as it will introduce new moves to have fun with”
“This is, firstly, fun. Second, I can do it on my lunch break. Third, already half-way through, I have gained more flexibility for movements that I actually use - when I crawl around my boat, when I go skiing. Initially, it looked like light training, but that was just getting the forms right, then it ramped up to the maximum level that I can do. It aims toward moves like the carthwheel (which I could already do), and the kip-up (which I cannot yet do). If I can't kip-up at the end, then at least I am (already) much closer to that when I started, and I can re-run the program once more until I can do it.
There is as always with GMB a very good app with timers and instruction videos, with overviews of progress, progress tracking notes, previews of upcoming exercises (with the instruction videos), built-in timers for the whole exercises.
From being rather immobile in January last year, here I am flowing about these movement sequences (having done two other GMB programs before this one). I recommend this program. Warmly.”
“Let me preface this review by saying that I've been doing GMB programs for several years, including the original legend programs.
What I liked with Sequences are how much fun some of the movements are. For instance, I've always wanted to nail the snakedown and floor kip, ever since I've tried them in Vitamin. Macaco is a movement I've found daunting and wanted to learn for many years, without quite having had any success or any structured way of approaching it.
What I found less enjoyable with Sequences, however, had been the pacing and practical issues with the flows. My first round of Sequences started with an excitement. However, I soon felt that even the 30 min sessions often felt extremely repetetive, where I noticed myself thinking that the sessions somehow feel incredibly long. I also did the extra conditioning option, and often the last part of the sessions felt like a tiresome burden. While I do like spending good portion of time on getting one movement down, there were times where I just lost the spark during the session due to how repetetive it could feel.
For the record, I'm doing a new round of Sequences, this time 15 min sessions only, which I find to be the perfect length for these.
When it comes to the practical aspects of the flow, I actually found several of the flows to be hard to do in a feasable way because of my living arrangement. I commute between two living spaces, and I did the flows in both of them, and ran into similar spacing issues. That, of course, fractures some of the smoothness and continuity of the actual full flows.
I am, as mentioned, doing a second round of Sequences now, because I really want to get the Macaco, Floor kip and Snakedown even more down. By the way, the theee abovementioned movements have all required more practice time, so that longer sessions really paid off for those in particular.
I would recommend the program to existing GMB-clients as I think it builds upon and expands a lot of skills and movements from previous programs (Elements, Vitamin, Moebius).”
“If I've learnt one thing from GMB it's to diversify your activities. Truly, the more the merrier. I have so many moves now, and different ways of fitting them together - and with Sequences now following Elements that library just keeps on growing. The exercises and flows are fresh, mostly new to me, engaging, challenging and best of all well rounded. Paired with a diversity of other activities, none of which I've mastered - cycling commute, coffee runs, social climbing, etc. I'm feeling a lot like I've learnt to blend exercise into my life as something I appreciate, not something I have to motivate myself to do. If I've learnt a second thing - it's to go naturally - that is, at your own pace, given your own state of mind, energy and time. Cheers from South Africa.”
“This is a fantastic program for everyone that aims for impressive skills like the floor Kip and the Macaco. The program is well structured and provides progressions for every skill level.
GMB‘s platform Praxis guides through the training sessions and helps to stay consistent.
I won’t master every skill in the program during the first walkthrough, but I already feel the improvement in some of the moves. This is a program I’ll surely repeat a few times and sequences offers two program options for that (basically with/without added conditioning) so that I can either use it as my main or supplementary training.”
“I've been a fan of GMB for a while now, having done Elements and Integral Strength pretty much in cycles for several years. I'd come out of significant injury and backpain in my early 20s, and I can say honestly that GMB -specifically Elements & Sequences- has been the best thing I've ever done for my recovery! I did Sequences coming out of Integral Strength where I'd started to get some aches & pains from repetitive fatigue, and it's sorted me right out!
Sequences has been perfect for where I'm at right now. It's balanced really well between strength and movement practice, with flexibility work basically built into every move since they all have you moving through large ranges of motion. The Flows you build up to are impressive and a pretty motivating finish point. My partner saw the videos in week one and said "you'll never be able to do that!", and while I'm still working on making things pretty, I AM actually doing them! I'm moving in ways I didn't think I could do in such a short space of time. And it's FUN!
The other compliment I'd give is how well the program can fit into different life patterns/routines. I've recently had a kid (in, like, week 3 of training) and I've taken pauses, increased the gap between sessions, shortened them, repeated sessions as needed after breaks, taken days off after the warmup after I feel my body at its edge from tiredness... And all throughout I feel like I'm still making incremental progress. I get that some of these things are 'meta training', but the program itself is really suited to using in your own way. In particular, the reflective tools that GMB use in all their programs are great for prompting you to consider how you're feeling day and respond appropriately. The other thing is that the sessions are ordered intelligently, so after a heavy and exhausting day there's usually something lighter -either skill work or a set of movements which hit the body in a different way. And it's all still whole-body movements, all still clearly useful, and all still fun!
I can't say enough great stuff about Sequences. It's exactly the follow-up to Elements that I've been waiting on for years. I'm really grateful to the whole GMB team for putting it out. Highly recommend it for anyone looking to move well, get stronger and more mobile, and just really enjoy the process. Even my 3 month old kid loves watching me make silly movements on the floor!
...Now just to nail that floor kip ;-)”
