STE TRAINING
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FUNCTIONAL TRAINING EXERCISES
DEVELOP AND ENHANCE
YOUR MOVEMENT
CAPABILITIES
functional training exercises
The purpose of functional training is to improve performance. Therefore, all training that improves performance is by definition functional. Using specific functional training exercises will help your body focus on the development of movement skills, body positions and explosive power. It will make all of your daily activities easier from carrying groceries to picking up a child. Functional Training will show you how to build muscles correctly, protect your joints from injury, help reduce your body fat, increase your lean muscle mass, burn calories more efficiently, and boost your stamina for improved fitness.
"HOW IS THIS DONE?"
Using functional training in your strength and fitness training programs will improve your movement capabilities and will give you strength that you can use. Taking a strength development from a movement and skill perspective rather than the perspective of isolated muscle training develops neuromuscular efficiency (the body's ability to move efficiently as an integrated unit). This optimal functioning reduces injuries and improves performance. This training methodology should be used for all populations, regardless of performance needs.
HERE WE GO.....
FUNCTIONAL TRAINING 101:
"WHAT IS IT?"
"What is Function?"
* A duty or purpose.
"What is Functional?"
* Performing a duty or purpose for which a person or thing is intended for.
Fundamentally, the human body can level change, locamote on 1 leg and 2 leg base of support, push, pull, and rotate.
"THE HUMAN BODY IS DESIGNED FOR MOVEMENT!"
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!
A simplified look at the human body would serve as a great starting point to better understand the efficiency of functional training exercises and how they can effectively be applied.
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!
"What is the body's kinetic duty or purpose?"
We need to look at movement from a direct observation and common sense approach. Once we understand the basic characteristics of the human body, looking at its "movement capabilities" becomes rather simple.
"So, what does the human body naturally do?"
STANDING and LOCOMOTION: Holds and linearly displaces the body's center of mass over double or single leg bases of support - (Ex. 1 Leg Activities Running, Walking)
PUSHING and PULLING: Characterized by pulling an object toward the body or pushing an object away from the body - (Ex. Opening or Closing a door)
LEVEL CHANGES IN THE BODY'S CENTER OF MASS: Characterized by movents of the trunk, the lower body or a combination of the trunk / lower body at the same time - (Ex. Sitting in chair, Lunging, Up or Down stairs)
ROTATION Characterized by changes in direction and rotational torgue production - (Ex. Swing of a baseball bat or chopping wood)
"TAP"
INTO THE WISDOM OF THE HUMAN BODY
If you really want to improve your endurance training, explosive power training or just general everyday life function you will need to have a movement approach (functional training philosophy) to program design. No doubt, this training methodology should be used for all populations, regardless of performance needs. If you personally choose to incorporate it, success will be optimal! All the strength in the world is of little value if you can't use it. So..., DEVELOP STRENGTH YOU CAN USE!
Summary
"What Is Functional Training?"
* Training that optimally enhances the body's kinetic duty or purpose and provides significant transfer to target activity
*Training that familiarizes the body with its operational environment. Using gravity, momentum, ground reaction forces and 360 degree movement freedom to make movement more efficient.
"What Makes A Movement Functional?"
* Its relationship to the targeted activity!
"WHAT DOES FUNCTIONAL TRAINING DO?"
Increases inter and intramuscular coordination
* Reduces inhibitory responses
* Increases neuromuscular efficiency of movement (enhanced coordination)
* Allows you to use more of the strength you already have
* Increases joint integrity and stability
* Transfers greater forces across joints
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PLYOMETRIC TRAINING
CIRCUIT TRAINING
WEIGHT LOSS
FLEXIBILITY TRAINING
SPEED TRAINING
PERSONAL TRAINING
INJURY PREVENTION
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