{"id":370,"date":"2015-09-23T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afp.hol.es\/?p=370"},"modified":"2015-03-08T11:59:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T11:59:55","slug":"things-you-need-to-know-about-functional-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/afp.hol.es\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Things You Need to Know About Functional Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do you know what functional fitness can do to your life?<\/p>\n

Well, here are two major benefits of functional fitness:
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  1. It gives you better flexibility to do common tasks that requires
    \nbody movements every day. Some of these are common to you like walking,
    \nrunning, lifting, carrying, and so on.<\/li>\n

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  2. Functional fitness helps to improve your performance and the way you
    \n do your tasks and activities. This is regardless of whether you are a
    \nprofessional player, an employee, a construction worker or a simple
    \nhomemaker. It also helps develop your endurance at vital tasks like
    \ndoing your shopping or going on a night out with your friends!<\/li>\n

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    So how does Functional Fitness work?<\/p>\n

    It teaches you
    \n to make your actions quicker with a single or series of movements. If
    \nyou notice, we spend most of our everyday lives moving so it only means
    \nthat when you are training yourself to become healthier, quicker and
    \nsturdier, you are also allowing yourself to apply the same foundation to
    \n your daily activities. With this, some people do not like working out
    \non a machine as they consider machines as a waste of time. While
    \nmachines help in some ways, they lack features that natural workouts can
    \n give like foundation, posture, coordination and balance – all of which
    \nare what we need frequently to perform better.<\/p>\n

    Just like any other
    \n workouts, functional fitness is not perfect in some ways. It can
    \ninclude some hard routines that may get a little out of proportion when
    \nit is not done properly. This can include various combinations like
    \nweight training, using Swiss balls, Tornado balls, and balance boards
    \nwith different movements like multi-plane or multi-directional.<\/p>\n

    So where does Functional Fitness can go wrong?<\/p>\n

    You
    \n can usually see personal trainers and their clients doing some crazy
    \nodd moves when you go to the gym. To any novice, many forms of
    \nfunctional exercises can look a little harmful. People nowadays prefer
    \nusing machines than engaging in functional fitness. At times, these
    \npeople or personal trainers would be doing routines based on what they
    \nhave seen in some health magazines. However, this fails to address one
    \nthing: knowing what is the required functional fitness for you. At
    \ntimes, you may notice that you do not really know why and your personal
    \ntrainer is telling you why either. This is not ideal: you may be able to
    \n do all the easy to hard routines but you simply cannot engage yourself
    \nwith any workouts without knowing the importance it will give to your
    \nbody.<\/p>\n