Exercises

Functional upper body exercises build foundations for upper body endurance, strength, and power.

Functional leg exercises are essential for building endurance, stability, mobility, and strength at your hip, knee, and ankle joints.

Even though there is a lot of buzz surrounding functional training and its effectiveness, transitioning to movement-based training and exercises will enhance your quality of life and have a better carryover to the sport you participate in. Functional exercises are essential for developing a functionally strong musculoskeletal system without muscle imbalances, which is rare nowadays … Read more

Free weight exercises are considered the most functional type of workout out there since they allow for a greater range of motion, more freedom of movement, and require stabilizer muscle activation. Based on my experience as a Faculty of Sport and Physical Education student and more than 30 hours of in-depth research, I compiled the … Read more

To functionally train at home, you only need to know some basic multi-joint bodyweight exercises.

It is possible to lose weight with functional training, but only if you do it in a certain way.

Basic functional exercises are excellent for beginners who want to develop muscle balance with movement-based training.

Advanced functional training exercises follow the same functional movement patterns but are more challenging due to stability requirements and more.

Full-body functional training exercises are compound or multi-joint exercises that focus more on building a foundation for movement patterns rather than isolating a particular muscle or muscle group.

Making your upper-body more functional is easy if you start implementing compound exercises into your workout routine. However, there is a big chance you get confused with the term compound and what it actually means. Is bench press a compound exercise? The bench press is a compound exercise that builds upper body strength and follows … Read more