What is Functional Training

I am Steve Turano, Welcome to this episode of body performance. Have you heard this term recently functional training? Well, let me give you a warning. That is could be the new Madison Avenue Gimmicks statement like core training and functional training. I was in the gym the other day and the gentleman showing me around and said, Hey! We have a bunch of functional training equipment. As if this is something new. Well, let me let you know a secret. You go to the gym to increase your strength not increase your function. Then you take that new found added strength and you apply it to your area, your movement or your function of expertise whether it is baseball, football, golf or just living life. You see, you gain your skill through practice that is the function and then you will increase that functions ability through greater strength, which you get in the gym with basic simple easy movements.

I am a heck of a lot stronger than Tiger Woods. I am not going to improve my game or my function by being in the gym. I am going to improved it by practicing on the golf course. Then once I have got the function down there, I apply my increase strength to a better function. So when you hear of the term functional training being bantered around just ignore it. Know that you need simple basic easy movements that allow you to increase your strength that is what you do in the gym. Then you take that new found strength and add it to your area of expertise. Love your body.


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