What is Functional Training?

 

Health is not just about exercising and what you're eating. Perhaps it's more about how you think... 

 

Human culture today is more plagued with numerous body dysfunctions then ever. We as humanoids spend our days doing senseless activities that go against our bodies natural biology of movement as well as thinking. We have programmed ourselves to listen to society for how we should care for ourselves, at the same time these "so called " experts have produced more sickness and disease to our planet by relying on magic pill schemes and money making surgeries to further destroy your mind and body. 

 

Our bodies were never meant to sit all day or drive a car for as a way of life. Nor were we meant to use "artificial or magic" pills, foods and treatments to cure us. I believe we are not even meant to experience sickness of any kind actually.  Our bodies are meant to heal itself through it's own self, the source where are intelligence lies.  Our bodies were meant to move contra-laterally in a multi plane (three dimensional) fashion such as run, jump, throw and climb.

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Functional movements are based on real-world situational bio mechanics. They usually involve multi-planar, multi-joint movements which place demand on the body's core musculature and innervation,emphasizing core stability. Functional exercises train your nervous systems (central, peripheral, autonomic, sympathetic, parasympathetic) to operate muscles to work together and prepare them for daily tasks by simulating common movements you might do at home, manual labor, at work or in sports. The optimal goal is to develop a more efficient gait cycle which combines the various muscles in the upper and lower body to work in smoother bio rhythm.  

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Sports-Specific

 

Sports specific movements, such as a tennis, soccer and martial arts, are based on sports-specific situations. While there is some cross-over application from sports-specific movements (such as running), they are usually so specific that they supersede functional movements in complexity. Yet both sports and functional movements are dependent on the body's core. Sports specific movements can be known as Special Physical Preparedness (SPP).

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Muscle-Specific 

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Traditional weight-lifting depends on muscle-specific program-design with the goal of muscle-specific hypertrophy. For example, a concentration biceps curl attempts to isolate the biceps brachii, although by gripping the weight one also engages the wrist flexors. These exercises tend to be the most far-removed from functional movement, due to their attempt to micromanage the variables acting on the individual muscles. Functional exercises, on the other hand, attempt to incorporate as many variables as possible (balance, multiple joints, multiple planes of movement), thus decreasing the load on the muscle but increasing the complexity of motor coordination and flexibility.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bio-Mechanics

 

Functional movement usually involves gross motor movement involving the core, which refers to the lumbo-pelvic hip complex, the muscles of the abdomen and spine, such as segmental stabilizers.

 

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