Chambers are techniques we use to create global tension throughout the body. The fitness and rehab industry trains muscles in isolation, as if the body is just a collection of parts. But your body isn’t a collection of parts. It’s a system. Every joint, muscle, and line of fascia is influencing something else upstream or downstream. 

When your movement is dysfunctional, you’ll always have areas that are overly compressed and other areas that are overly loose. For example, if your pelvis shifts to one side, one hip may be jammed tight while the other side has too much slack. You can’t fix that by just stretching what’s tight or strengthening what’s weak. That’s spot-fix logic. And spot-fix logic doesn’t solve system-level problems.

Chambers work by applying tension across multiple regions of the body at the same time. You’re essentially redistributing tension so the entire system reorganizes itself toward equilibrium. This is something you don’t really get from explanation alone. You have to feel it in your body. When a chamber is done right, you feel the whole structure change, not just one muscle. It’s a pattern, not a pose. It’s a system intervention, not an isolated workout.

If you want real posture change, real pain reduction, and real improvements in how you stand, walk, run, and throw, you have to learn how to build and sustain your body as a whole not just parts. It’s one of the biggest elements that separates Functional Patterns from everything else.

Start training FP. Learn what global tension actually feels like. Then you’ll understand what a chamber is.