Exercise Smarter

Whatever the aim, understanding your body is the key to choosing the right exercises and achieving maximum results in the quickest possible time. To me functional training means training to improve the way your body works; to bring it into balance so it may operate optimally. The training also needs to achieve a chosen goal or objective. Hence, programmes should work on improving the function of your joints/body while also accelerating the individual to their goal. If your body is functioning optimally
it will be more ‘open’ and will respond quicker to the training. Too many people are completing workouts that compound their problems. Working muscles that are already too tight/dominant and ignoring the ones that are lengthened and/or weaker. People continue to work in one plane of movement with joints that are already stiff and immobile. This increases their postural problems by furthering muscle
imbalances and limited joint range of motion, which blocks