What's Functional Strength?

Functional Strength is the foundation of lifelong fitness. It's our ability to perform everyday movements pain-free, with comfort and ease. Functional strength training is literally training the body for movements we do in everyday life. Just for example, here's a few movement patterns we do in creative ways throughout the course, and how we use them in our every day life:

* Squat (getting low to the ground)
* Hinge (bending over to pick something up)
* Lunge (going up stairs or walking up a hill)
* Push (putting something away overhead)
* Pull (raking, vacuuming, closing a car door, grabbing heavy things)
* Carry (bringing in the groceries, carrying luggage or children)
* Rotate (putting on a seatbelt, raking leaves, shoveling snow)
* Balance (standing on one leg)

Functional Strength training trains your body to do all of these with more ease so you can live your life strong and pain-free in your 30s and beyond!

"What's the Difference?"

FUNCTIONAL VS TRADITIONAL STRENGTH TRAINING:
Functional Strength is the foundation of fitness. How unmotivating is it to do a workout when all of your movements feel like a STRUGGLE? Do a plank for 30 seconds? Can't even do it for 10 seconds if your lower back hurts! Do 10 bodyweight squats? Can't do it if your knees are killing you. Do some lunges with dumbbells in hand? Uhh, not if that grip gives out way before you do. When you don't start with a solid foundation of strength, all exercise feels heavier, harder, and less inspiring to do. You never feel like you get fitter because even the basics feel hard.

Functional strength training trains you to feel great in your everyday life. It sets you up for a fitter body with longevity.

In this course, we use weights at times, but otherwise, it's a lot of yoga-inspired, bodyweight movements that challenge you in the best way. By the end of this program, you'll feel SO much stronger, more stable, AND more capable in your everyday life.

The good news is that you can feel better going into your next decade than you did your last.

But I already work out!

That's incredible and a habit I want you to keep up! Functional Strength will only enhance your current routine. This will help you maintain that strong foundation and give you a framework for how to return to this healthy baseline if you're ever injured and as you get older.

Plus, you may be working out with poor movement patterns. How do you know? That may be the case if...

• You regularly tweak or pull things - When one area is over- or under-worked, you're more prone to injury.
• Daily life never feels easier - Maybe you can get through a workout, but you can't reach straight overhead, or you still pee a little when you sneeze. These things are common but not normal.
• Your posture is poor - Unless you are a trained professional, it's easy to overlook certain areas while overtraining others. Many people enjoy doing a lot of pushups and bicep curls (because we all love an upper body day 😉) but tend to neglect the muscles that keep them upright! A balanced, functional training program will have your posture looking perfect.
• Low energy - If your fitness begins and ends at the hour you're actually in the gym, those benefits aren't carrying into the rest of your day. Your training should serve your daily life, not drain you of energy to do your daily activities.

FUNCTIONAL

IS

FOUNDATIONAL!