What is Functional Fitness?

Summertime is a great time to go to the beach. Lugging chairs, coolers, kids and water toys while walking in soft sand isn’t the easiest of tasks. What if you could prepare for it? Build up strength for the things you need to do in life, so it’s easier to get through the things you want to do, like relax on the beach with your family or friends.

There are exercises that simultaneously use multiple muscles and joints to improve strength, coordination, balance and posture, to prepare your body for real world activities. Exercises that teach the muscles to work together rather than isolating them, carry over to things you do in normal life. This is functional fitness.

More real life examples of situations that you need to be in shape for are, carrying groceries, climbing stairs without gasping for breath, and lifting your toddler without breaking your back. What good is it to have great sexy biceps if you can’t carry a suitcase down the steps without wrenching your back?

Functional fitness is working out to prepare your body for normal daily functions without pain, injury or discomfort. When you practice functional exercising, everyday activities will become easier while improving your quality of life.

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."   George Eliot