Trade your boring gym equipment for functional fitness gear
Functional fitness is a training style that works the whole body to perform optimally by strengthening its capacity to do the motions you need in everyday life. Things like squatting down and lifting boxes, carrying heavy bags, pushing around furniture, bursting into a quick sprint to catch a bus becomes easier to do. Regular training sets you up for a more supported experience in your whole life — whatever that involves and whatever has the most meaning to you. You train so that your body can handle the demands you place on it without a negative cost.
Fitness is a well-rounded approach that’s fed by a certain amount of body intelligence and backed by the skills that come from learning basic movements well. Spend some time consistently developing well-rounded fitness, then let the activity you love be an expression of that fitness, not the way you get fit. You’ll not only bring a wholly upgraded version of yourself to that activity, but you’ll also set yourself up to keep enjoying it well into your golden years.
⚡️ Be primed to get to your highest level at any moment.
A pyramid approach can be used for physical training. This pyramid has 4 layers that help you build a super-solid state of health. In the pyramid of fitness, walking is at the first layer. Scientists say that the act of walking helps to develop our advanced human brains. Purposeful walking gets your heart rate going moderately and helps restore natural breathing patterns. The second layer is mobility work. This refers to exercises that help you find the flow in your body so that moving feels effortless and free. Mobility work matters because it helps to release stiffness and restriction in the muscles and connective tissues and restore the natural full range of motion of your joints. The third layer is strength. This refers to the muscles, bones, and connective tissues’ capacity to carry load. The apex of the pyramid is power. This is what you get when you combine strength with speed. Power helps you move quickly and forcefully, and if you build power on top of the previous layers of walking, mobility, and strength, you can arrive at what is called a state of higher performance.