Functional Training Manual MRR Ebook With Audio

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Introduction

Functional training is a way to exercise where everything you do in the workout mimics the moves of daily activities. The point is to achieve a fitter body by improving the ability to perform everyday activities.

Instead of targeting one specific muscle group, functional fitness engages multiple muscles, just as it happens when you try to reach for an overhead shelf or bend down to lift or put something on the floor.

What Can Functional Fitness Do For You?

Functional fitness can make your life so much easier. As the name states, functional fitness is fitness related to improving your functionality. These workouts don’t aim to enlarge your muscles or make you look bigger but strive to make your body function better.

All the moves you practice help adjust your muscles and bones to natural movements you perform during the day. Though they’ll definitely be more exaggerated than the real-time action, they help your body endure through the strain. With practice, the pressure applied to your muscles becomes less of a burden and your overall active performance improves.

Be wary of course, there is a right and wrong way to go about working out. If you don’t make your workout routine a daily or every other day habit, you’re not going to benefit from exercise at all. Experts even recommend that functional exercises change with age and ability.

For instance, a teen doesn’t need to think about getting up from a chair safely but that can be a concern for an older person. Likewise, someone with a disability may need a different functional focus than someone not challenged with disability.

Functional Fitness Moves

The exercise moves associated with functional fitness aren’t complicated at all. All the moves you’ll learn when it comes to functional fitness are those that you already practice in your everyday life.

For beginners, functional fitness is the best way to go to develop muscles and strength.

If you’re starting out from a very low position, and it’s your first time working out then there’s no pressure. Don't run into hard core workouts that grind you to the bone. Don’t jump right into lifting weights as you’re likely to just injure yourself.

Most fitness moves can be toned down to a low impact move so you don’t risk harming yourself. If you feel that something’s too hard for you, don’t be afraid to tone down your exercise. Find an easier move or work out for a shorter period of time.

Once you’ve gotten the hang of things though, don’t be afraid to push your limits a little further and try new moves. Add in more time and bring some weights into play. Working out more can only lead you in one direction and that’s forward. Once you’ve gotten a functional flow, make the most of it and try not to miss any days.

Given below are some general moves you’re going to find in all functional fitness routines, regardless of your level. These moves can be added to one another, they can be made either high or low impact and they all reap their own benefits on your body’s performance.

Exercise #1 – Squats

Squats help strengthen your thighs, knees and brace your ankle and feet balance. This move is standard and practiced in most workouts. When it comes to weightlifting, most weightlifters have a starting pose of a squat. Squats can also help strengthen your core since it compresses in this position.

A squat can be hard on your knees since most of the compression takes place here. If you’re not ready for a squat, you can always dive down half-way. You don’t have to go into a proper seated position if it’s too much of a burden on your knees.

The squat is interpreted in multiple moves when it comes to functional fitness. The following are some moves that include a squat.

Jump Squat

In this move, you jump onto a block laid in front of you. You start off this move by squatting and then lifting off the floor. Once you’ve jumped onto the block, you squat and then hop off. This move is best done when continuously repeated.

However, this is a considerably high impact exercise. If you feel you can’t do this, try only jumping from the block to the floor and back without the squat. Only try to do this move once you’re fully capable of doing a squat and you’re adjusted to jumping from the block to the floor and back.

Side-Turn Squat

With this squat, as you go down, turn to the left or right at a 90-degree turn so your whole core is shifted in one direction.

This squat helps strengthen your core while turning. This move can also be relatively higher impact if you’re starting out. If you can’t turn the whole way, then don’t strain yourself. Turn as far as you can and once you feel a burn in both your waist and side, you’ll know the move is working.

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