What Does Functional Fitness Look Like?
Take any normal movement that you do every day and add imbalance.
What? Did you read that right?
Yes, you did.
When you engage your core muscles by challenging your ability to control and balance your own body weight, you are exercising the "functional fitness" way!
This is the whole idea behind things like stability balls and wobble boards. They introduce an imbalance factor and force the body to work harder at staying stable. This kind of fitness carries over into every day life. (This is why it's called "functional." As opposed to just doing crunches or situps to repeat an isolated moving, working a specific group of muscles, functional fitness works all the muscle groups at once, using full range of motion. This promotes muscular skeletal strength and movement, helping us prevent injury to the back and neck especially.
What? Did you read that right?
Yes, you did.
When you engage your core muscles by challenging your ability to control and balance your own body weight, you are exercising the "functional fitness" way!
This is the whole idea behind things like stability balls and wobble boards. They introduce an imbalance factor and force the body to work harder at staying stable. This kind of fitness carries over into every day life. (This is why it's called "functional." As opposed to just doing crunches or situps to repeat an isolated moving, working a specific group of muscles, functional fitness works all the muscle groups at once, using full range of motion. This promotes muscular skeletal strength and movement, helping us prevent injury to the back and neck especially.