FUNCTIONAL
STRENGTH EXERCISES
AND EQUIPMENT

KEEPING IT
FUNCTIONAL
KEEPING IT REAL!

Incorporating functional strength exercises and using the correct fitness training equipment will no doubt, improve your movement capabilities and will give you strength you can use. This necessary training functionally needs to be incorporated into all strength and fitness training programs. It focuses on the development of movement strength. From this point forward, you need to change your mindset and begin to focus on training movements not just muscles if you want to be successful.

"THE BODY IS A WORK IN PROGRESS...!"

A simplified look at the human body would serve as a great starting point to better understand the efficiency of functional training and how this training methodology can effectively be applied.

The construction of the human body reveals a master design. It is a work in progress and it is highly adaptable to a variety of conditions and stresses. The human body is a unit, a kinetic chain, where movement is more than just individual muscles contracting and relaxing. Each link in the kinetic chain has a specific role to play and each link is part of an integrated whole resulting in efficient flowing movement!

"MAXIMIZE YOUR CAPABILITIES...!"

The primary purpose of incorporating functional strength exercises is for improving athletic performance and injury prevention. That, in itself, should be the primary objective of all strength and fitness training programs.

Normal function of the major joints of the human body is crucial for both optimum performance and injury prevention. Having abnormal joint function produces poor movement patterns, faulty muscle activation patterns, early muscle and body fatigue, and ultimately injury. To better understand, imagine when an athlete is throwing a ball. The entire shoulder complex must work efficiently as a unit to accelerate and decelerate the arm as it moves at a high rate of speed. If the shoulder complex and muscles surrounding it are not properly prepared, a predictable pattern of dysfunction and injury occurs.

"DEVELOP STRENGTH YOU CAN USE...!"

Functional training will increase your body's chances of getting rid of wasted movements that "feed" into patterns of dysfunction and injury. The reason is that training functional movement patterns will allow greater carry-over of the functional exercise to the sport motions being performed because of the muscular activation patterns are more similiar to the movements required in the sport.

No matter how you choose to look at it, just know this - incorporating functional strength exercises and using the correct fitness training equipment will no doubt, improve your movement capabilities. All the strength in the world is of little value if you can't use it. So, DEVELOP STRENGTH YOU CAN USE!