Functional exercises

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FUNCTIONAL EXERCISES, WHAT ARE THEY?

The classic exercises we do in the gym have little to do with the movements we perform during the day. While on the one hand in fitness centers we use balanced loads, following a precise technique of execution on the other, in real life, it often happens to perform much more complex movements. Lifting a bottle pack from the ground is putting it up on a shelf is a complex movement. It takes place on all three planes of movement, involves multiple joints and even if we do not realize it, it requires a great capacity for bodily control. In short, nothing to do with pushing a barbell over your head.

Today, in the wake of a trend that increasingly seeks to achieve a person's physical well-being, fitness centers and personal trainers are persistently introducing the concept of functional exercise.

A functional exercise stimulates proprioception and control of the body and is based on the concept of transferability, ie the learning of a motor gesture that can be used in everyday life. A fundamental prerequisite for training in a functional way is the strengthening of the so-called core, or rather that group of muscles that forms the abdominal region, a true junction between the upper and lower part of the body. The balance exercises, the proprioceptive exercises aimed at the development of the sensorimotor and all the other types of functional exercise use instability to stimulate and train the motor and postural control of the body.

Muscle reactivation and enhancement take on new importance, moving from a purely aesthetic to a global health goal.

Why risk osteoarthritic damage by performing series and series of squats, when there are much healthier exercises that can protect and improve our health?