Functional fitness program involves training and strengthening your body by focusing on your postures and movements rather than focusing solely on muscle mass. It involves training most of your body muscles and priming them for optimal function while maintaining muscle mass and improving mobility. It involves simulating common body movements your body does at home, work, or in sports.
Functional fitness is focused on building a body capable of performing routine activities rather than doing workouts involving lifting heavy weights in an idealized posture created by a gym machine. Movements such as squatting, reaching, pulling, and lifting will be made easier with functional fitness integrated into your exercise routine. It is designed prepare you for all aspects of your physical routine and not just focusing on strength training.
Compared to conventional training, the benefits of functional fitness tend to outweigh everything else because it’s actually targeting our daily movements. In addition, functional fitness improves overall quality of life due to the benefit of relieving stress. This type of training is usually more fun than others since you are essentially training for your everyday routine.
Functional fitness helps to improve balance, coordination, flexibility, muscle strength, and agility. All of these components will improve your mobility and posture.
Functional fitness training encourages muscle, bone and ligament strength, which are highly susceptible to injury.