IS YOUR EXERCISE PROGRAM CAUSING YOU PAIN AND ANXIETY?

Perhaps what you are doing is not suited to you and your specific needs.

When I work with people, I listen to their most important targets. Then I get to work with them on those issues. Often it's weight loss however after identifying the “why” of it, we discover that freedom in their bodies is the actual goal. That’s where I bring in functional training. All roads lead to Rome, though, right?!

The key word here is function. Functional training is just training that has a purpose and an intention. More than that, functional training is focused on movement patterns that have a purpose and play major roles in your everyday life.

A functional workout typically consists of compound exercises like squats, lunges, and deadlifts. Compound exercises require more than one muscle group to work together, like a squat, deadlift, lunge, or push-up. Because of that, they typically mimic everyday movement patterns—like pull, push, squat, hinge, rotation.

The purpose can be different for everybody and is related to getting better at everyday activities—like walking, squatting to pick up something heavy, pushing a revolving door, or getting in and out of a chair or off the toilet (it’s a real thing!) It could also be preparing to compete in a sport, like soccer, football, netball, or tennis.

A functional workout is simply one that strengthens you in a particular way that directly translates to an activity outside the gym or for general daily activities that may have become challenging.

For most people, the practical application of functional training is to make daily activities easier to perform. This can often be life-changing for that individual, and therein lies my why.

There is nothing that excites me more than seeing the lit-up face of a client who can perform a simple move that they have been struggling with.

Moving your body in a way that recruits multiple muscle groups at once requires a certain level of coordination, focus, and core strength. The more you train functionally, the better you’ll become at working your entire body as one system, ultimately helping you improve your energy, levels, balance, and coordination, even reducing pain in joints that have not been supported by sleepy muscles. This allows a better quality of moving and living, enabling an energetic, pain-free life. It also assists in maintaining healthy body fat levels.

Moving more in your day is highly beneficial to your health and well-being overall. You can enhance those benefits by adding in specific training 2-3 times a week. I recommend that training is tailored to what YOU want to achieve.

There is no point in walking for hours on a treadmill or doing spin classes if your posture is off and you have joint pain. Focus on the things that will take you to the best version of yourself and the life you want.

Let me know if I can help.

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