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Summary: In functional training, medicine balls and cable crosses are useful for a number of exercises. Learn about equipment for functional training from a fitness trainer in this free functional training video.

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By Anthony Baron Kirk
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Anthony Baron Kirk has an educational background from the University of Oregon, the Goethe Institute in Berlin, Germany and a degree from the University of Utah. He also has instructor...read more

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"So we're at my gym Transform. Just going to take you on a quick tour. If you look right here, we've got some medicine balls. We like to use these for all kinds of different strength and performance reactive training. Core training as well. This is a cable cross. We have two of them. There are just very useful in all kinds of functional training movement patterns, which is really what I like to emphasize. More functionally your movements are in your body, just the better you're able to managing day to day life. This is steps we do for, or benches we do for various types of agility and reactive, and plow metric type movements. We have lots of different stabilizing bosous and fitness balls. These are all your standard dumbbells, we like to sue again for slightly more challenging functional movements. This is a spin bike right here. It's a great piece of cardio equipment to use. When done properly, provides a fantastic cardiovascular exercise. This is a type of treadmill right here. It mimics kind of walking in the sand. It's really fun to use. There's two tracks that will move up and down, and quite like walking in the sand in bare feet minus there's no sand and ocean next to you. This is a normal treadmill right here. This, a fantastic piece of cardiovascular equipment. If used properly you can get such a great workout just by walking correctly on the treadmill. It's thought of as the best movement for the body. Just proper bio-mechanics when walking. That's what I want to help in part today. Just some simple fitness balls right here again. And then, one of my favorite objects right over here would be this foam roll. And in a later series we'll discuss, this is one of the best stretching techniques."

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