“What is Functional Training” Delna Pooniwala.
Functional Training has become popular due to better joint mobility and stability, as well as more efficient motor patterns. Functional training at a gym, involves mainly weight bearing, muscle core and lower back activities and the movements do not necessarily bear any relationship to the movements people make in their regular activities or sports. Hence one requires being very careful as to where they are working out and who is training them. If performed correctly, it decreases the potential for an injury sustained during an athletic endeavor.
It had its origins in hospitals, where occupational therapists, physiotherapists and chiropractors have been using a simple form of this exercise as a part of rehabilitation treatment for patients. These exercises include and mimic what patients did at home or work, as a part of the treatment in order to help them return to their lives or jobs after an injury or surgery.
A Functional training program should be tailored to suit each individual keeping in mind the person’s specific goal, current state of health, current or past injury and multiple other factors.
These exercises should be done under the guidance of a personal trainer and at a reliable gym. One that I like is ‘Trance Fitness’ gym at Powai, Hiranandani. They perform an extensive assessment to decide the exercise selection and training load and an experienced functional training expert coach would personally cater to a single client at any given time.
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