Are you functionally fit? Functional fitness is the ability to perform a broad range of physical tasks to meet the demands of everyday life. These fundamental movements typically involve various forms of locomotion, lifting, pushing, pulling and throwing. Essentially, functional fitness training is focused on preparedness.
Functional fitness training means designing your workouts to mimic those movements you’ll likely encounter while at home, work or play. A key difference of functional fitness exercise is working muscles together rather than in isolation. And functional fitness workouts should train your upper and lower body to work together.
In addition, your workouts need to promote general fitness by developing power, strength, flexibility, speed, endurance, agility and coordination. This broad conditioning supports performance in expected, as well as unexpected, situations.
Since everyday activities often require integrating multiple muscles and joints, training in this manner helps accomplish these task easier. So functional fitness workouts improve the quality of your everyday life.
One example of a functionally fit workout is laboring in the yard, as this task tends to require many fundamental movements.
