METHOD

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” — Theodosius Dobzhansky

The Primal Method is based on three sources: human evolution, science, and experience—our own, that of the players we work with, and what we have observed at the highest levels of the game.

• Evolution gives us the starting point for understanding how the human body and mind are designed to function. 

• Science helps us examine and refine that knowledge. 

• Experience shows us how to apply it in the real world.

From there, we follow a simple hierarchy:

Human first. Soccer player second. Position third.

Before preparing for the demands of a particular position, a player must be prepared for the demands of soccer. And before developing the soccer player, we must understand the human being behind the performance.

Skipping that order means building on an unstable foundation.

This does not make the preparation any less specific to soccer. It makes that preparation stronger by developing the human foundations that allow players to move, recover, learn, make decisions, and perform consistently on the field.

This is the foundation behind everything we create at Primal Soccer.