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What do you do in Functional Training?

In functional training, you don’t isolate a muscle and focus on it. Instead, you do exercises that require more than one group of muscles to work together like squat, deadlift, lunge or push up. They mimic everyday movement patterns and make it easy to perform daily activities.

The real benefit of functional training is that every person can go for it whether they are young or old, super fit or just a beginner or even someone who has never worked out before.

Advantages of going for functional training.

1.Improved movement patterns:

The body coordination improves over time and so does balance and body awareness that help you avoid unnecessary injuries.

2.Improved movement efficiency:

Functional training improves your body’s ability to work efficiently as one unit.

3.Improved physique:

Since functional training employs multiple muscle groups at the same time it helps in achieving a leaner and more athletic body.

4.High calorie burn

Since you are using more muscle groups, you end up burning more calories.

5.Improved aerobic capacity:

HIIT could be considered as functional training for cardio. People who do Tabata for 30 minutes end up improving their aerobic capacity and time to exhaustion more than the ones who do only a 30-minute treadmill workout.

6.Increased lean muscle mass:

This is especially beneficial for those who are aging. The more muscles they use, the better shape they are in. Functional training helps in maintaining strength and lean muscle mass well into the later years.

All in all, functional training is a very good way of workout for all age groups as it helps improve definition, burn calories, enhance aerobic capacity and promote muscle growth.