What is functional training? Functional training is basically exercises that helps to improve your daily life movements. It gives ability to your body to perform everyday movement.
Why is Functional training important? Functional training is important because it focus on movements that helps in everyday life. It improves your ability to do tasks of everyday life like lifting, bending and climbing stairs by enhancing your overall strength, balance and stability.
What’s the difference between functional and strength training? The Difference between functional training and strength is that, functional training helps to improve your daily life movements. It gives ability to your body to perform everyday movement. While strength training helps to build strength and muscle.
5 Best Functional Training Exercises:
1.Squats
Squats are one of the most fundamental functional movements in our lives.(1)
Squats will help make your everyday activity easy like sitting, getting up and picking money from ground. Regular bodyweight squats are best option to get started after your master bodyweight squats you can also add weight.
2.Deadlift
Deadlifts are one of the best functional movement to master, it will improve your ability to do heavy everyday tasks like moving furniture, grabbing vegetables bags and lifting Thor hammer from the ground if you are worthy enough.
Deadlifts give strength to your back, legs, core and forearm which will help to improve your ability to do everyday task.
Do go too heavy on deadlift to prevent injuries.
3.Farmers Walk
The farmers walk is very simple and easy to do just carry some weights and wall. To make it more difficult add more weight or walk farther.
Farmers walk is very basic, very functional because we always carry some weight and walk.
Always do this when performing farmers walk;
- Pick up the weight with good form and grip
- Keep a tight posture and don’t bend your shoulders
- Take small and simple steps
4.Pull-ups
By talking about best functional training exercises we cant ignore pullups. Being able to lift your body is very functional an it may save your life you are falling from mount Everest.
If you can not perform pullups you can also start with inverted rows.
5.Box Jumps
Box jumping will help to improve your power, balance and agility and it is very important for functional fitness.
