What is Functional Fitness Training?

Series Summary

Functional training is a new type of fitness routine that helps you focus your fitness training on movements and exercises that will help you perform better in every day life. Functional training involves stair steps, lifting and throwing, coordination, and flexibility. The exercises demonstrated by the personal trainer include medicine ball techniques, skiing and stepping exercises, leg and arm presses, and other strength and conditioning exercises. Functional fitness is the perfect exercise routine for overworked moms, busy professionals, or anyone else who needs a sensible, functional fitness routine.

Video Transcript

" Hi my name is Carey Kepler and I’m a functional training coach. Functional training can improve the quality of your life; increase your athletic ability, speed, agility, balance. It’s good for ages of seven years up to ninety and if you live to ninety five then ninety five and so on. Functional training is basically purposeful training, and what it does is it allows for you to develop strength in a controlled environment and apply it to your every day life style. Basically you’re looking at grocery shopping, squatting to pick up the dog toys, pick up your kids clothes, you’re looking at children that do athletics that are not coordinated and have not developed coordination to develop speed so that they can progress in athletics. You’re looking at elderly adults that cannot stand up, go to the bathroom on their own anymore. All of these functional exercises develop core strength that in return established longer functional strength into the extremities. So the core of the functional strength is going to be the abdominal system, a long with the back so that we can stand tall and be agile. Also creating flexibility through the torso, the hips, the upper body, through the shoulders, and making sure there is stability for balancing because most of our life we’re either rotating or we’re on a single leg walking, jogging or athletics. So basically what we’re doing is strengthening and improving the quality of your life. "