Dealing with clients resistant to functional training. Are you missing out on the benefits?

Absolutely. Some ways to get started: ? Focus on simple and fun exercises ? Start with lighter weight and become comfortable with the form first ? Video tape yourself to determine if you’re performing the exercise properly ? If you have arms and legs you can exercise with weight! Be patient in your process to learn.

‘Same’ results is not progressive. Progression is understood through bench mark goals toward a bigger, all encompassing goal. To be ‘the same’ is not moving toward anything & will likely result in boredom & discontinuation of practice.

Lifting weights in our lives prepares us for many daily activities. Ever lift the laundry basket? Move to a different home? Needed to lift something from a bottom drawer? Wanted to go on a hike and keep up while carrying heavy bags? Resistance type movements are everywhere and preparing yourself properly through resistance training exercises can help us to stay and feel young and energetic.

Functional movement does not have to be limited to traditional functional movement exercises. One of the most important factors to maintaining a functional body is keeping your spine agile. Spine agility requires motions in all planes & so intentionally moving the spine is important to remaining functional. Being able to fold, side bend, twist & reach the spine back are all motions that a healthy spine can achieve. Incorporating exercises that move the spine in those ways will keep the spine healthy enough to move the body throughout an entire lifetime.

I’ve found that spending 80%-90% of the time on machines first rather than solely free weights can help prevent this issue. This helps them to understand and familiarize themself with the motion of movement, Contraction of the muscle And prevent injury

A great way to get started is to build what I call a ‘base of body awareness.’ A barrier likely exists from fear of movement. Fear of movement is usually born out of a lack of awareness about how you move your body in space. Practicing exercises that help you to intentionally connect to specific muscles, instead of a bunch at once, will give you control over which muscle engages. Having this control will empower you to increase challenge & have tangible evidence of progression.

Back Squat Deadlift Romanian deadlift Back extensions Overhead Press Bicep curls These are all exercises that mimic every day life activity.

More often than people believe lifting weights is dangerous, will make them bulky and actually prohibit them from dropping body fat because they are spending their time performing more weight lifting exercises rather than cardio exercises. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Lifting weights is extremely beneficial because it helps to burn calories even after the workout is completed, it helps keep you safe by helping get stronger and it’s extremely difficult to get “bulky” some say it would take years and excessive calories and even substance abuse to gain crazy size.