"Fitness for Life" is about developing functional fitness. Fitness that allows you to meet and conquer the physical challenges that every day life throws at you. Fitness that you can maintain throughout your life and continue to function independently through your senior years.The term “functional” describes movements that are natural and primal, such as standing, squatting, throwing, lifting, pushing, pulling, climbing, and running. They are part of our design. They are safe and essential to health, fitness, and in the prevention of loss of functional capacity.
The term "fitness" describes the development and maintenance of lean muscle mass, physical elasticity and general physical skills such as strength, flexibility, mobility, coordination, balance, stamina, speed and power. Fitness is about performing well at any and every task imaginable.
Training for functional fitness therefore includes a wide variety of exercises that are natural, compound movements which increase one's ability to perform everyday physical tasks and challenges. Training the body as a whole unit, not as isolated, individual muscles, also makes one more effective at conquering life's unforeseen physical challenges.
In training, the emphasis should NOT be on "burning calories" or "pumping" up your muscles. The emphasis should NOT be on beating a "1 Rep Max" or "Beating the Clock" at all costs or at risk of injury.
The emphasis should be on ideal performance! The development of proper movement, mobility and skills is the key to building a better, stronger and healthier body. One that will allow you to move freely and without pain. One that will not only make you LOOK fit, but actually give you the ability to perform .... for the rest of your life!
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